Slim majority of Cyclingnews readers think Armstrong's ban should be reduced
In was an extremely close-fought affair, but many Cyclingnews readers have expressed sympathy with Lance Armstrong over the length of his ban from sport.
We asked readers via a Twitter poll whether or not the Texan’s lifetime ban, handed down in the wake of the Usada report in 2012, should be reduced. It was neck and neck for much of the 24 hours of polling but in the end a very small majority voiced their belief that the ban should indeed be reduced. Out of the 3,548 people that voted, 52 per cent were in favour, while 48 per cent were against.
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Armstrong has been trying to get his ban reduced for some time now, and he hoped his cooperation with the CIRC report, published in March, would help his cause, but to no avail. He has always felt that he has been something of a scapegoat for the widespread doping that occurred in the peloton during his era, insisting that many others committed indiscretions of a similar scale yet have largely gone unpunished.
Armstrong returned to the headlines on Monday after giving an interview with The Times, in which he once again railed against hypocrisy in cycling. He went as far as to say that if there was an equivalent substance to EPO today, then “everyone would be on it”.
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