Ger Gilroy: Redemption a long way away for Lance Armstrong
There’s no other template for the Armstrong recovery story other than the passage of a lot of time and he seems impatient. Photo by Bryn Lennon/Getty Images
Cycling is an awe-inspiring sport. Watching various videos and documentaries about Lance Armstrong's doping - in preparation for talking to him last week - the over-riding feeling was of a great loss in my life, of summers wasted not spent watching Le Tour or fully engaging with the characters of the teams, their stars and their domestiques.
I'd missed the undulations of the stages and the evolving science of the gear and why riders' cadences mattered, the nerdy power analytics and of course the stark brutality of the races.
