Fuck Nike

On one hand, it'd be nice if one of the thousands of people whose lives had been saved or bettered by Armstrong's half a billion dollars raised for cancer would speak up for him. On the other hand, I guess you could say well if someone else was winning all those gold jerseys, who knows what'd THEY'D have done in the saving lives department? On the other hand, I'm guessing the odds of everyone else doping too is about 100%. On the fourth hand who gives a shit, it's fucking cycling.

On the fifth hand, fuck Nike:

But seriously, fuck Nike. Real fucking brave of Nike to dump a retired athlete well after they'd squeezed every last useful promotional drop out of him, in his doping prime. It's not exactly a huge sacrifice for Nike to cut Armstrong loose today. There are no more Tour de France wins to capitalize on, and now they get a cheap way to stake out the moral high ground, where Nike never, ever belongs.

The false naivete is almost blinding. WHOA HEY NOW THERE'S INSURMOUNTABLE EVIDENCE! WE CAN'T STAND FOR THIS HARRUMPH HARRUMPH HARRUMPH. Like Nike didn't know ages ago that Lance rode up the Pyrenees with four million cc's of oxygenated dinosaur plasma stuffed into his veins. (Meanwhile, according to Greg LeMond's wife, Nike once paid a former UCI president $500,000 to cover up positive drug test.)

Poor, innocent little Nike! They feel so BETRAYED by Lance!