Quote Originally Posted by boz-monaut View Post

I'm all for the lifetime ban, I'm all for stripping him of his titles and I'm all for preventing sporting's greatest fraud from being in the public eye ever again - there's no way in hell he'd have fessed up, apologised or even called off his lawyers from suing those who exposed him if he hadn't been caught

he deserves to be remembered as the biggest **** in sport, ever
i only have a problem with the lack of consistency in punishments dished out to other either admitted, or proven, cheats.
Contador and Landis seemed to get off way lighter than Armstrong. I have no problem if they all got lifetime bans. But to me Contador, Landis and Armstrong are guilty of exactly the same things.
to use your analogy Boz, it would be like Contador and Landis stabbing a ref in an All Age match at national Park vs Armstrong doing it at a World Cup Final (held somewhere with a slightly bigger capacity than National Park).
More people are witness, and "affected" but the crime is still the same innit?