Lessons from the Armstrong Affair?

Let me
start by saying I refused to watch the Oprah interview. Armstrong is a master
manipulator and I feel this is another attempt to manipulate public opinion. I
have been following the whole Armstrong affair with great interest. I have read
most of the books. For a very long time I was in a very small minority because
I always felt he was dirty. My cynical side felt that he was using the whole
Livestrong Foundation as a front. I refused to wear a yellow bracelet. I am
still trying to absorb all the revelations and subsequent further accusations.
What I do hope will come out of all this are some lessons that will help us to
clean up sport. What the affair Armstrong has brought to the forefront for me
is that big-time sport is dirty. Folks what you are seeing with cycling is
not isolated to cycling. Doping is rampant in track & field and some areas
of swimming, not to mention the NFL. The outlaws are far ahead of the law. They
are well financed as we have learned from the Armstrong revelations if you have
enough money you can beat the system. The testing system is flawed, easily
evaded. There are huge amounts of money at stake here, for the
athletes and their entourage, for the sponsors for the International and
national governing bodies and the IOC. 
I just hope for the future of sport and the young people coming into
sport that we will find viable solutions and learn lessons from this whole sordid
affair. Time will tell.