Lance Armstrong challenged to race by Aussie triathlon star Chris McCormack

the question of who would watch this is surely irrelevant to the moral issue here. LA does differ from all the other riders mentioned above. USADA, WADA and now the UCI get that. I thought most cycling fans did to. I recommend the writings of David Walsh , or, more recently, the book wheelmen. This is written by and from the perspective of people who understand where the money went.

Who's to say Armstrong wouldn't just cheat again? Is anyone suggesting he'd race this one clean? Well there's a novelty.

Pedaling Cancer Myths
Lochlann Jain says Lance Armstrong sold myths not only about cycling but about cancer as well.

Take the word cycling out of the above and it sounds like every religion ever pedaled as the true word... It's time for this to move on.

The comment above about every other rider is spot on.

Let's be honest there is not a single person who would not watch this race. I will that is for sure. I will be honest, if they put it on pay per view I would still watch it.

I'd love to see this race, the sheer motivation to win from each contender would make it a spectacle indeed.

The attention whore rides again.

I wonder why the dolts that write this stuff don't start using:

The disgraced Alberto Contador, The discredited Shaun Kelly, The humiliated Rigobero Uran, The Shameful Schleck brothers, The disgusting David Millar etc

Before the cycling, way before all the doping, LA was regarded as one of the most promising young triathletes in the world. He went with cycling as there was simply better money and prospects.

I reckon it'd be worth watching... If you follow LA on Strava he's still putting in some world class runs and rides. You'd kind of assume he's not daft enough to be doping now but who knows?!

Unless and until LA has atoned for his crimes, spare him the publicity.

http://www.kqed.org/a/perspectives/R201312020735

this is perhaps the most damning indictment of armstrong; deliberately
miselling his medical story as a triumph of willpower and inserting
that conception into his sporting success- if you try harder, like i
did, you will not only survive, you may become a hero.

to sell such a lie knowingly( read its not about the bike if you
don't believe he knowingly lied on this subject) is just horrendous. its
not about the money, its about the false hope and expectations

LAs cancer was undoubtedly serious, but from diagnosis to cure was a
matter of a few months chemo, nothing to do with willpower, followed
by a year of recovery ( for which he was incredibly driven, a
remarkable personal feat). he then went on to win the Tdf 7 times,
himself and his team drugged to the eyeballs with a PR, legal and
charity machine that destroyed anyone who got in their way.

the more i try to develop some empathy for LA, the harder i struggle.
he was a myth maker as well as a liar. his obsession seems to have
been wealth, fame and power, using sport to pursue these aims.

Presumably as this wouldn't be an officially sanctioned event by UCI or tri authorities, or subject to WADA testing, they could both take as many PEDs as they liked - no wonder Lance is interested

Agreed, definitely a testicle

Please please please, this has to happen. Purely from an altruistic and research driven angle of course

McCormack will, I suspect, thrash Armstrong to near death if this happens....

Why oh why do people keep giving this bullying cheat the publicity he so craves?

"Let's go to the back of Austin - you and me - no-one around and let's race."

I wonder if he appreciates the irony of making this statement on the web.