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Your Lies Will Come Back To Haunt You
Lance Armstrong is one of the most controversial figures in sport.
This was the man who came back from a deadly cancer diagnosis to win the toughest bike race on the planet, the Tour de France.
He didn’t win it just the once, he won the race seven times in a row! An unprecedented feat that had not been replicated before.
You couldn’t have made the story up. However, everything wasn’t as it seemed. Despite only failing one drug test during those seven years, many people doubted Armstrong.
After all, the story did appear to be good to be true. Despite all the protestations, none of the allegations stuck. Armstrong would brush any shred of doubt off like he was riding past his rivals on a tough mountain climb.
That was until his return to professional cycling in 2009. It was at this point, that the carefully woven lie Armstrong had maintained for 10 years began to slowly unravel.
Three years later, it culminated in his fall from grace when he admitted he had used performance-enhancing drugs during an interview with Oprah Winfrey.
The lie Armstrong had created and persisted with was destroyed in an instant.
Armstrong had already achieved the impossible by surviving cancer and getting back on the bike. What…
