The whole Lance Armstrong affair strikes me as very Stalinist; one day he's at the pinnacle of his career, and then next he's accused of Trotskyism and everything he's ever achieved in his life is expunged from the collective memory.

The advertisers who sponsored the races made all the money they could have made, and so did the media outlets that covered it. You can't say the USPS didn't get their money's worth by sponsoring Lance Armstrong. Who, then, were the victims of this supposed fraud? His competitors? But none of them were declared winners in his pace, because supposedly they all cheated.

But if everyone cheats, then the rules are meaningless.