In the newspaper, on the internet, everywhere Lance Armstrong's name is seen it is accompanied with talk of doping and how his titles are being stripped and his sponsors are leaving him. He's become the unfortunate end jokes all over. This wildly different from the American hero that I heard so much about while he was winning his titles and leading a movement with little yellow wristbands.
There is no question that even after everything that has been discovered recently, Lance Armstrong has done so much more for society than he has taken away by doping. This seems so obvious to me that it almost strikes me as strange that so few people talk of him as a hero anymore. I think Americans generally like to see people whose lives improve overtime. The hero who makes some unfortunate choices early on and then uses his awesome will power to turn himself around and start saving society. Because of this I think its hard for us to still see Armstrong as a hero because we discovered everything wrong he was doing after all of the great things he did. I also think and hope that in time, once the shock of recent events has passes, this effect will be diminished and people will slowly look at him as great again. Do you think he deserves all the negative publicity he has been receiving or do you agree that he should still be honored?
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