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I liked Ulrich though. He was a heiffer, drank whole microwaved pots of nutella after a stage and liked the ladies. Pantani, Vandenbrouke, smashed races apart and loved the ching. They were cheats but they were flawed and they had charisma. Ditto Merckx or Simpson or most anyone else you care to mention.
People like flaws as it can make them human, trying to be an all-american messiah and preaching down to everyone is going to earn you enemies even if you aren't a dodgy cheating bastard to boot.
Plus armstrong comes across as a juiced up alligator with a deformed medulla oblongata and even when he's trying to look nice by setting up his cultish foundation you still wouldn't piss on him to put out flames as his body language still just screams 'cunt!' and it comes across as an extremely cynical media exercise to divert attention from the real man behind it.