One of the obvious signs of a psychopath is the lack of remorse, manipulating behaviour, difficulty in clearly difference good of evil and egocentricity. Some of the signs. There are far more and psychologists still investigate but the last few days we were all forced to see/read/watch this kind of behaviour from a certain individual doesn’t matter where we live, very well promoted form Oprah Winfrey’s global network. In the spotlight a sportsman, Mr. Lance Armstrong.

The story unveils for months, the suspicions and the rumours for years and to be honest I wasn’t sure if I wanted to write about it but there was something in that interview that return me eleven and nine and five and one year ago while waiting for the occasional Olympic games.

I didn’t watch the videos with Oprah’s show even though this moment you can find them everywhere online, I read most of it and especially the highlights I presume the Winfrey’s global network wanted to emphasize. Actually I think they did very good job but if Oprah was dreaming to become the new Frost with Armstrong instead of Nixon I’m afraid she must be disappointed. Lance was not directed, he was directing every single bit of this interview, calculating carefully the minute of the tear or the mentioning of his kids.

And then came the final cut. After going on with his battle with cancer he gave the final kick to his pedal, questioned whether he deserves his "death penalty" punishment obviously meaning that he’s banned from all sports because of his use of performance-enhancing drugs. In the meantime he had explained that in this level where everything is about the records and winning a medal doping is not …unusual adding that his battle with cancer and his survival motivated to do anything to always win even if that meant the use of illegal drugs.

First thing that made me a bit angry for personal reasons was this part with the cancer survivors. There are thousands or better millions of cancer survivors everywhere around us, in our families and in our social cycles. I didn’t see any or heard any of them after the end of the treatment and their return to normal life to rob a bank. Surviving cancer doesn’t motivate you to commit a crime. On the contrary after this battle and left with so many wounds you seek simple things in life and mainly the chance to spent time with your love ones. During this battle you learn to appreciate all these small things you missed the rest of your life hunting career, money, approval, recognition.  You earn that an evening with your kid is much more valuable from all the riches of the world and that a walk in the park is much more fun than anything else. Simple things. Robbing a bank, or commit any kind of major crime is not in your mind. And that beyond class, money, fame, education or age. There are millions of examples.

But again this might made me angry for my personal reasons but still was not the ugliest part of this psychopathic show. The ugly part was what was never said but floated all the time everywhere during this interview. It was that you can not sentence somebody to the "death penalty" because you manage to arrest him doing what everybody in this small world of championship is doing and you cannot prove. Because the relationship between contemporary sports championship and drugs has come down to it, the ones they manage to prove doped they are doomed the others also doped but not proven are getting the gold medals and the money! And keep this last bit with the money because sports today are all about the money. Is television rights, is advertisement, is sponsoring, is promoting. Even Oprah’s show with Lance was part of this sports’ money-chain.

Waiting for the Athens Olympics and provoking badly my compatriots I wrote an article calling for a boycott of the games for the simple reason that the modern Olympics insult in every single sense the spirit of the Olympic spirit and everybody with respect to history and the ancient values. And Lance Armstrong is nothing more out of series of similar incidents from the very early years of the modern Olympics. And if it wasn’t the masquerade of the Helsinki Olympics in 1952 they wouldn’t have thought of creating anti-doping tests and if it wasn’t the manufacturing of the East German athletes and the death of some of them they would have done it illegal.

Actually is a wonder how this infamous Olympic committee – a travesty of transparency and bribery – hasn’t let the pharmaceutical companies advertise on television next to all these …healthy drinks and food. After the Athens Olympics I wrote that there are tow ways to solve the problem. They either return to the fundamentals where the prize is honour and a branch of olive tree stopping all this money carousel or we let doping free since everything is about money, sponsoring and profiting. And because money is a too strong element doping should be let free and in a few years we would see a man or a woman running in the speed of sound while drinking a certain cola, eating a certain cheeseburger, printing his memoirs in a certain printer and listening music in certain gadget. Since they have managed to mock athletes why don’t they make the full of it and turn them into clowns?

And do you know something else? Oprah was not so much of a victim and manipulated from Lance but she has partner him with many others for decades into sentencing sports to death in the name of …the modern Olympic spirit!

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Only a look at the photos from the show and the posture of the protagonists is enough to see the lack of remorse, manipulating behaviour, difficulty in clearly difference good of evil and egocentricity of Lance Armstrong and how much aware of all the above Oprah Winfrey is and how ready she’s to score ratings not carrying if she’s manipulated. After all in her own championship field she is equally lacking remorse, she showing manipulating behaviour, difficulty in clearly difference good of evil and egocentricity.