What is Lance Armstrong doing?

Lance Armstrong’s interview with the BBC is his latest attempt to state his case, rewrite his narrative and rectify his reputation. He seems to want a career in politics, but Armstrong should realise that the world has had enough of his lies

By Suze Clemitson for 100 Tales 100 Tours, part of the Guardian Sport Network

Those seven jerseys on the wall. The yellow of sunshine and daffodils, the most visible colour in the spectrum. The yellow of cowardice, treachery and madness. The yellow of the Yellow Jersey.

Big Tex is at it again. This time seated in his Mellow Johnny bike shop – named for a lazy American corruption of maillot jaune – those seven jerseys hanging defiantly on the wall. He is surfing a tsunami of self-pity, employing every well-worn facial tic – the steely gaze, the half-grimace and the self-satisfied smirk – to assure us that, if he had to do it all again he would (in 1995) or he wouldn’t (in 2015) and that he thinks now he would change the man, if not his decision to participate in the “most sophisticated, professionalised and successful doping program that sport has ever seen”.

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