Lance Armstrong

Over the past couple of months Lance Armstrong has been stripped of many endorsements and he resigned from the Livestrong charities board because of rumors that he was taking steroids. He hasn't said anything publicly about doing performance enhancing drugs but it is very clear to many people that he had been doing them. He has already been stripped of his seven Tour de France titles and he has finally agreed to meet and talk with Oprah Winfrey in a interview were he says that he will answer any questions honestly. Does this mean that he will finally admit it that he was using performance enhancing drugs? There is definitely no denying that he did use the drugs but if he publicly admits that he did use the drugs there will a lot more Lance Armstrong haters than there already are right now. Lance Armstrong was someone who I definitely admired because of how inspirational his story was. He was such a role model to so many people that I read his autobiography in my freshman year English class. It really makes me upset to see how someone so inspiring can even think about doing something that could potentially end his career for good and he can lose so many supporters as well. Role models are a big deal in children's life, they look up to them for everything. Lance Armstrong was a very good role model to a lot of kids and now they see that he's doing steroids, they're going to think that it's okay to do steroids too which is not right. To read more about Lance's struggles, read this article http://sports.yahoo.com/news/armstrong-awaits-candid-oprah-interview-182703998--spt.html.