"I love adhering to a code of honor." Sure ya do Lance. Sure ya do.
The Texan cycling legend, who had one of the most famous falls from grace in sports history, has turned his attention to golf in recent times, playing 250 times a year, but behaving dishonestly in his new sport of choice would never cross his mind.
Despite admitting to cheating which saw him stripped of seven Tour de France titles, the notion of taking liberties on the golf course appalls Armstrong to his very core.
The 43-year-old made the hypocritical claim during an interview with
GolfDigest.
Armstrong said: “Cycling, it was the Wild West. Nobody considered doping cheating. It was an arms race where absolutely anything went, and it was every man for himself.
“You might consider me the last guy to have anything to say about cheating, but golf is different," he added.
"I love adhering to a code of honour that we in cycling didn’t have.
“If I moved my ball in the rough and got caught, I wouldn’t just regret it, I’d be heartbroken forever. When I think about reform in cycling, I think about golf.”
