Stripped of his Tour de France titles and banned for life from the sport he once dominated, Lance Armstrong has become the cycling world's greatest villain – and he knows it.
"I'm that guy everybody wants to pretend never lived," Armstrong, 43, says in a revealing new interview with the U.K.'s The Telegraph. "But it happened, everything happened. We know what happened. Now it's swung so far the other way ... who's that character in Harry Potter they can't talk about? Voldemort? It's like that on every level. If you watch the Tour on American TV, if you read about it, it's as if you can't mention him."
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"I'm that guy everybody wants to pretend never lived," Armstrong, 43, says in a revealing new interview with the U.K.'s The Telegraph. "But it happened, everything happened. We know what happened. Now it's swung so far the other way ... who's that character in Harry Potter they can't talk about? Voldemort? It's like that on every level. If you watch the Tour on American TV, if you read about it, it's as if you can't mention him."
full article:
http://www.people.com/article/lance-artmstrong-lord-voldemort-cycling
