SI.com - Writers - E.M. Swift: Smoking gun may be catching up with Lance - Tuesday September 12, 2006 12:27PM

SI.com - Writers - E.M. Swift: Smoking gun may be catching up with Lance - Tuesday September 12, 2006 12:27PM

So, as I've said before, I hope that history shows Lance Armstrong to be clean. However, the more people in the sport that come forward to talk, the less likely it looks that Armstrong was the paragon of virtue he claimed to be, and more like the vindictive cheater that Greg LeMond has said he is.
Particularly damning is the part about Frankie Andreu, Armstrong's domestique in his early tours. That, combined with the information about steroids and testicular cancer, unfortunately, has a strong ring of truth.
I think we're way beyond paraphrasing the great Bernard Malamud with, "say it ain't so Lance, say it ain't so."