“Mafia Only Ever Takes Care of Their Own”: American Cycling Enthusiast Expresses Strong Disagreement With Lance Armstrong’s Hot Take

The iconic Lance Armstrong had rather a roller coaster of a ride during his prime. While the American cyclist is famous for being the recipient of seven consecutive victories in the Tour de France, he is infamous for having lost those titles to substance abuse. Now, it’s been 10 years since Armstrong came clean about his usage of PEDs, and he still falls prey to the social media trolls.

Recently, Pro Cycling Stats, an online cycling database posted a poll on Twitter. The question in the poll asked cycling fanatics if after ten years of his confession, should the accolades be returned to the cyclist? The poll caught the attention of Armstrong and got a piercing reply in return. The 51-year-old replied, “the only people that should be asked are the ones who were in the battle with me. I know their answer”. Soon after Armstrong posted his reply, another American cyclist trolled him for his answer.

American cyclist trolled Lance Armstrong

A couple of days ago, Uli Fluhme, a former Wall Street attorney turned cyclist took to his Twitter, to reply to Armstrong’s response to the poll. Tagging the 51-year-old, Fluhme penned, “@lancearmstrong is conveniently leaving out that he may well just be a great drug responder with a motor”.

Fluhme expressed his discord with Armstrong’s tweet. He added, “But even more so he denies the 1000s who were as good or better yet didn’t want to cheat in “battle”.

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Nevertheless, the former wall street attorney further wrote, “the mafia only ever takes care of their own”. Clearly, a decade has passed since Armstrong accepted his misconduct yet the world has not forgotten his doping controversy.

Armstrong admitted his misconduct in 2013

Big Tex retired from cycling in 2011. However, one of his teammates tipped the USA cycling officials about Armstrong’s involvement in doping. After a year of investigation, in 2012, the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) revealed the cyclist’s involvement in substance abuse. Regardless, Armstrong tried to prove his innocence but all the efforts went in vain. Finally, in 2013, the cyclist admitted his involvement in doping when he appeared on the Oprah Winfrey show. 

As a result of his misconduct, the cyclist was banned from participating in every competitive sport. And now, after almost a decade later he often falls prey to the social media banter. Is the world ready to let Armstrong redeem himself? What do you think?

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