Lance Armstrong... greatest doper there was or ever will be

Knock yourself out. SA police estimates are very close to the organiser's crowd estimates
http://www.cycling.org.au/?page=31993&format=
Feel free to conduct your own attendance surveys and compare to next year's event.

Also, apparently the 2 million was over 2 years and half of it was for Livestrong, not LA himself. But that could be more internet bullshit.

I can't be arsed to dig out the story, but he admitted at his first press conference in Australia for the TDU two years ago that the appearance fee he was being paid was destined for his own pocket, not the charity.

Quite why the Australian taxpayer would be donating to a charity whose work is restricted to the US remains unclear.