Lance Armstrong

[HairOfTheDog]

I'd like to think that people are smart enough to separate the doping bullshit from all the good that is accomplished through his foundation but of course that is probably too much to hope for.

I don't know if it will last, but for now, people seem to be separating the two. It surprises me too, in a good way.

Snipped:

"Our donations have increased to nearly double their usual amount since August," said Katherine McLane, spokeswoman for the Lance Armstrong Foundation.

"He's a person who helped change the perception of cancer survivors around the world. He's done an incredible amount of good for people affected by cancer and nothing can change that," she said.

Armstrong won his seven Tour de France championships after being diagnosed in 1996 with testicular cancer, which spread to his lungs, lymph nodes, abdomen and brain. By December of that year, after months of surgery and treatment, doctors declared him cancer free. The following year, he established his foundation.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/11/us/armstro...index.html