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Armstrong is hated because he encapsulates the omerta that surrounds professional cycling. He claims he is clean and that he is the most tested athlete ever yet will bully and threaten anyone who dares to speak out against the institutionalised doping culture of the sport, i.e. Christophe Bassons, Filippo Simeoni and Lemond. He has been caught doping, witness the positive tests for EPO from urine samples he gave at the 1999 Tour, but due to complicity at the highest level of the sport has managed to get away with it.
He is an unpleasant bully who has perpertrated the largest sporting fraud the sport of cycling has ever seen and just when we thought we'd got rid of the unpleasant cunt he's come back promising to be open and transparent. However, like many of his pronouncements, it was a lie and just PR. This piece by Lionel Birnie sums it up well;
http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/Armstrong_and_Catlin_drop_antidoping_programme_article_276898.html