Do You Think Lance Armstrong’s Doping Confession Will Help Restore His Public Image?

Confession, before getting caught, would have shown character and integrity to right a wrong. Confession, long after he's been caught, shows he's wallet's been effected and he is willing to insincerely crawl on his belly

It's possible...people who have been addicted to other things have come out and become spokesmen for thier causes. It sure can be done, but it's up to him. I just hope he has learned to do the right thing.

Nothing restores your reputation more than a public apology and confession, just look at all the guilty CEOs that have come out in the past and apologized for the wrong doing or bad products or bad policies their companies were involved in and each company recovered:

1. Toyota
> CEO: Akio Toyoda
> Year: 2010
> Incident: “Unintended acceleration” deaths and recall

2. Bridgestone/Firestone
> CEO: Yoichiro Kaizaki
> Year: 2000
> Incident: Tread separation leading to Ford rollovers

3. BP
> CEO: Tony Hayward
> Year: 2010
> Incident: Gulf oil spill

4. JetBlue
> CEO: David Neeleman
> Year: 2007
> Incident: Passengers stranded on planes for hours

5. Sony
> CEO: Howard Stringer
> Year: 2011
> Incident: PlayStation Network hack

6. Facebook
> CEO: Mark Zuckerberg
> Year: 2006
> Incident: Newsfeed privacy scandal

7. News Corporation
> CEO: Rupert Murdoch
> Year: 2011
> Incident: New of the World phone hacking

8. Tepco
> CEO: Masataka Shimizu
> Year: 2011
> Incident: Japan nuclear disaster

9. JPMorgan Chase
> CEO: Jamie Dimon
> Year: 2010
> Incident: “Robo foreclosures”

10. Netflix
> CEO: Reed Hastings
> Year: 2011
> Incident: Sudden price increase

We forgave Kobe Bryant and Ray Lewis, so why not Armstrong.

Ther'es no business like show business

so many people like myself was and is battling cancer and his story gave us hope to keep on fighting and staying positive.today this makes so many say what is the use,the only thing that helped him was to take these steroids,but we do not want steroids to help us deal with cancer.

Oprah seems to be able to pull anything out of anybody

Reminds me of that old proverb about "out of the skillet and into the fire."

Who works at ABC?

Just by an admission? No, of course not! He's got to go to jail like others have. Look at Marion Jones: 1st time offender and received 6 months and Armstrong is still on the street? This is definitely unfair. Not only did Armstrong use drugs he pushed them on other bikers. He was not only a user but a pusher. This guy deliberately contributed to the delinquency of the sport.

You've got a point. I had forgotten Marion Jones did jail time. She of course used for years too. It was evident after she had her baby and came back and didn't have the definition or speed.

And guess what, I don't care!

Come on folks,Check out the other athletes out there..That's all i am saying

I don't know how anybody could live a lie for so many years. It's not as if nobody else knew about it.
It appears to me that some men have such a huge ego that
they feel above reproach. Examples of this would be presidents of the US who have had affairs while in office. You can go back to Jefferson who had children by a slave. They obviously feel superior to the common man.

NO WAY!

Won't restore it but it will keep people from talking about him. People will finally leave him alone.

because he is the best man in the world!!

But he will make money just from the notoriety even if it means book sales or a movie. A cheater is always a cheater and if he can still capitalize on it you know he will.

Hate to be contrary and NO, I don't think Lance is a saint, BUT I appreciate that when he did finally go before the American people he didn't at least put on a blathering crying 'I have sinned' show like umpteen others but instead was remarkably plain spoken and analytical and I think as honest as circumstances would allow.

His confession is something he needed to do for HIM. He KNOWS that most people won't believe/accept his confession - that's just human nature. But it's not about the public in general. It's about him, his family, and those specific people he knows he has wronged. This is a personal process for him, which he stated multiple times, that is just now starting and will take years to complete, if it ever really is complete. He will forever be a man with a tainted public legacy. He knows nothing will change that.

I don't think he's out to necessarily restore his reputaion, but to line himself up for public appearences, a speaking tour about the dangers inherant to professional sports, professional training facilities for young sport enthusiasts--including triathelon training, Olympic training centers, even a network sports announcer stint for Olympic events, and a sports talk show on Sirius... And of course, can a book be far behind? Call it a Sarah Palin approach to supplimental income...except that Lance Armstrong really does know his subject matter, better than most.

He's a criminal and should be put behind bars just like Olympic athletes who were found guilty of doping during their performances.

He was an idiot and cheated, people aren't just going to forget that because he said "sorry"

He is an immoral liberal. I was against them persecuting him until they had enough evidence..but they have it now and he has finally come clean...I can forgive him for lying to all of us for SO long..but..I have no use for him otherwise and would not believe a word that came out of his mouth..I hope he gets his heart right with God and changes his life for the better.

To long and to late. Just wonder how much Oprah paid for the confession

Tour-de-France bicyclists all dope, not only Lance.
All these guys dope because there is no other way human body could deliver to match sponsors and public expectation. We are all responsible.

Truthfully, I'm so over this story

As they say in my family of a particular relative, "Let us speak no more of him.'

He's a disappointment. We thought we had a true sports hero. He let us down.

Even worse he robbed many other athletes of their opportunity for glory.

He did fool a lot of people. That's what he did more than anything, his secret was also used by many others in all competitive sports. Bet your last dollar on that, he was the only one who got caught. That's only because he was a winner and had the best drug makers supplying him is why he was taken down.
Will he regain his image? Hard to say, depends who he is trying to seek out a second chance from. For most people they could care less, in a few months they will forget who he was.

It is good that he is finally owning up to his behavior. However, he had been considered the greatest cyclist in the world. How could he ever restore that?

No longer our worry.

Yea, it should be in the court's hands now.

I've heard it'll be in many courts' hands. Sucks to be him now.

I suppose so, especially since he said he didn't think he was cheating. In fact, I read he pushed drugs on the other bikers.

Boy, did he screw up!

I hope it doesn't improve his image. The "world" is too keen on rewarding bad behavior such as giving book deals to people who have no business being lauded. The best thing to do with this dreadful man is to ignore him completely. No media, no public profile whatsoever.