I'll never understand why people couldn't see this coming...

I know exactly what you mean. I never trusted him, especially after the Sheryl Crow thing. When I got my hair cut very short, people told me I looked like him. I cringed. When I was in Paris, I bought a "Tour de France" T-shirt. People would see it and say "Tour de Lance." I cringed. Anyway. you catch my drift.

One other thing I'll share with you. One his last HBO special in 2008, which was called "It's Bad For Ya," George Carlin began with 'hero worship is BS', basically a litany of *beep* 'this person' and 'that person,' and while we're at it *beep* Lance Armstrong and his diseased balls!" It was so validating to hear him say that way back then, before we knew what we know now.

Kind of like Obama... you knew he was unqualified but you couldn't say anything because he had a free pass based on race... Free passes are BS but they exist for certain things like being a minority, being gay or having some horrible disease.

Yup, he was arrogance incarnate. Obvious from the first time I saw him give a statement in the yellow jersey. He was so proud he outdid all the other dopers. And he did, yes, but he mostly outdid them in arrogance.

Thing that is mentioned too little is that maybe doping products used as a triathlete/mountain biker caused his cancer in the first place. Very possible.

And then I guess he thought life owed him somehow. Yes, he trained like a madman, yes, he was a good cyclist.
But what he excelled in was lying.