Well, he got this for it...... I was laughing so hard last night, when I saw it.
From last nights Jimmy Fallon's Late Night Show:
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Oprah... Opera is something else
And, likely he ain't got anything for it. She's the most powerful woman in entertainment business, and an American Icon. Highly influential. It's rather an attempt of him saving his ass by coming forth with a confession. And likely it would have even worked if there wasn't some more to it:
1. He didn't only lie and deny all the time. He turned it around and accused, threatened, harassed others - who have been honest enough - over it.
2. He completely blew a fairly large community of fans off. So many people believed in him, believed that he was rather a victim, yet they were all wrong.
3. He still kept dodging, and bending the truth in the interview. It wasn't a full confession.
4. He took the cake of all doping cases ever. America takes a lot of pride in it's sports achievements. Yet Armstrong's case is of such a huge magnitude, that it will, and does trickle into the reputation of the US sport as a whole. Any extraordinary athlete from the USA will - at least for quite some time now - have to live with the World watching, raising their eye brows and suspecting foul play...
Apparently, it's not only the former USSR, or China, it's also the great USA who cannot play by the rules.
Cycling is huge in the World. Bigger than it is in the USA. Armstrong's actions have a huge negative impact against the USA's sport reputation as a whole.
It'll take quite some time until that fades away.