When news began to leak out over a year ago that the greatest athlete of his generation might also be the greatest cheat, the thought was unbearable.
"Say it ain't so, Joe" was the lament of an adoring fan to Shoeless Joe Jackson, the baseball legend arraigned on charges of game fixing in the 1920's.
"Say it ain't so, Lance!" has been the cry of millions of sports fans for the past few months, and Lance Armstrong has obliged with a steadfast denial that he ever doped his way to victory in the Tour De France.
But today the Super Man, Super Clean image came crashing down.
In a single day Armstrong resigned his presidency of his charity, "Livestrong" and was dropped by his sponsors, Nike, as a chief ambassador of their product.
A thousand pages of testimony from former team mates and eye witness to his misdeeds was too much to deny. The game was up.
Winner of seven Titles in the Tour de France, Armstrong lost in the only race that really matters, the Race of Life, where probity, integrity,sportsmanship and character finish in the winner's circle.
Ah, Lance, listen to the words of Jesus.
"The First shall be last and the Last shall be first"
Ian
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