A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Lance Armstrong’s career
07/20/2015 09:13
Lance Armstrong is in the news again during the Tour de France. He has tweeted about the speculation around current Tour leader Chris Froome, and has been riding along some of the 2015 Tour de France stage routes on a charity ride.
Let me say from the outset that I abhor doping in cycling. My writing on the issue should make that clear. But a friend recently asked me an unexpected question about Lance Armstrong that made me stop and realise there's an aspect about his story that I had never fully contemplated. His question:
"Is it possible that Lance Armstrong's role in popularising cycling has done more for community cardiovascular health than 20 years of cardiovascular medicine?"
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