pick6 wrote:
CensoredCyclist wrote:
iron_mike wrote:
he hasn't confessed. confessing is when you go under oath, and talk to the authorities, at their leisure and on their terms. lance had a chat with a talk show host.
-mike
Check the dictionary defintion of confessing. ;)
No honestly he confessed to most of it - far more than people were expecting. He is being punished for that now.
The message is clear to others in the sport: keep your mouth shut. If you don't, every scam artist and hot shot cop will be looking to exploit you.
clearly not. Because others are coming forward at a pace of about 1-2 per week since Lance's USADA decision across the world. So to say people arent confessing isn't true. We've had 2 come forward in the last 48 hours. So I think what you're missing is that people are seeing what happened to Lance and saying "I do not want to get sued or go to jail, so I'm going to tell what I know". It's called a cautionary tale, and it's working. NADA's are finding people finally willing to talk.
Lance isnt being sued because he doped or because he confessed. he is being sued because he sued others for telling the truth.
I wouldn't say that is clear at all. Yes, a few people are coming forward, but the trouble Armstrong has found himself in since the confession will have put the frighteners on current big name stars. If they were on the fense about using the opportunity of TRC, this will have pushed them in one direction.