Lance Armstrong invites Paul Kimmage to interview him at Dublin conference

So maybe Armstrong is now irrelevant, but why are there so many posts about a relatively unimportant exchange with a journalist? Why are people still so interested in this man?  Why in fact was this article published at all?  Surely not that you are all still interested in him, even if it's only to try to bang another nail into his coffin?

Lance is now (check the record books) a nobody and is a publicity whore, he misse
s the respect he once bullied out of everyone. I don't like the man, there's a special word reserved for people like him and my Mrs doesn't like me saying it.
What I will say (and accept the backlash from) is that if you think your heroes... Mercx, Hainault, Big Mig, etc rode clean then you're deluded.
Armstrong pretty much claims everyone was doing it, he just did it most and did it best, he's probably (rarely) telling the truth.
I hate what he's done to the sport of cycling but if I had to forgive him for the doping or for being an utter C U next Tuesday to anyone and everyone who stood in his way I'd easily choose the doping!

Do you mean Tony Cascarino?, famously signed by my team (Gillingham FC) for a set of track suits.

I think the only reason he's not thrown everyone in that era under the bus is he's still got money at the moment. If that court case goes against him and he gets cleaned out I'd imagine with nothing to lose he may turn grass.

Everything I read by Kimmage suggests to me that he's a very angry individual  

Having said that, I do tend to agree with him more often than not

Armstrong is quite correctly a target, albeit an easy target, because not only was he cheating  but because his character and attitude are vilified.

He cheated during an era of cheats but stands out because he was winning, ergo in a lot of minds he was cheating more than others. He was subsequently in denial when called out and tried to deflect vitriol on to others to save face and this is correctly what a lot of people hate about him.

He would be better served nowadays in trying to promote clean riding, in supporting WADA and the UCI in removing drugs from the sport but he's not going to do this if he is jeopardising himself knowing that every bit of information he offers from his era may be used against him. That is the level of vitriol there is against him; it's almost counter-productive because we can never learn from his experiences because of the hate.

Cycling as a sport needs to continue to move forward; learning from history is necessary but living in the past does not help. The furore around LA, the legal battles, the dismissal of anything he says just because it's him saying it, that's not learning from history, it's living in the past.

He should do interviews and he should be listened to; maybe it is a long shot to expect him to be honest and truthful about anything but as long as everything he says is used to beat him with a big (legal) stick then he's never going to tell the whole story.

Armstrong looking for oxygen to fuel his fire, even this post will be recorded as being in his favour, all publicity is good publicity. Even if I put in Armstrong is an arsehole no one will care.

Only thing to do is keep very, very, quiet - and eventually, he will go away

They still refer to him as winning the TDF, pretty sure that on the official record I have the same number of gc wins

That yankee twat isn't worth the shit on anyone's shoes. 

Lance is cool - I've grown to really admire him.

You personally may not like him, but you can't say he's not relevant. He is the most famous cyclist in the history of cycling. Wherever he goes, media and crowds follow. He has more followers on twitter than Froome, Wiggins, Cavendish, Hoy, Trott, and Boardman combined.  In the last two years this site has had more articles about him than Froome  - and Froome has been winning races while Lance has been retired for 6 or 7 years. He is the biggest thing in cycling. 

Agree with the sapniard. BEst resonse would be "Yeah, Lance, I'd love to, but I'm afraid you're irrelevant these days"

The funny thing is, Kimmage doesn't need Lance any more. He made his name by revealing the biggest name in cycling at the time to be a cheat and a nobody. His work is done and he's moved on.

Lance is old news and that must hurt like hell.

At the risk of being put in the stocks and have tomatoes thrown at me, I just want to say that I am still interested in Lance - NOT what has happened in the past, god knows that been covered to death (and that awful film!!).. BUT I am genuinley interested in him as he is today and what he'll do next.

Did anyone read the engaging two issue interview which I think was published last year in rouleur magazine? It basically covered him dossing about the house, playing golf, nipping to the shops... bugger all really, but this this air of 'how real is he?' being played out ....  

He also still draws a huge crowd at any given public appearance? He may be the anti-christ of cycling but he's still an enigma. 

Classic journalism used the Five W's:

What happened?
Who did that?
When did it take place?
Where did it take place?
Why did that happen?

In the case of Lance Armstrong all of the above have been extensively written about, I cannot imagine that there is anything left worth knowing.

First question. given the expo is about tech,

'Lance, as one of the greatest cheats in the history of sports, what do you think about concealing motors in your bike, would you do that?'

Where can I get one of these "high horses" everyone seems to ride in this country when it comes to cycling and doping. Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.

.... Lance redeems himself, writes a book on it and gets invited to coach the USA Cycling team...  followed by UCI president campaign....

He's already mates and training partners with some US cyclists... it's not a big step... 

It's time to play the music
It's time to light the lights
t's time to meet the Muppets on the He Who Must Not be Named Show tonight.
It's time to put on makeup
It's time to dress up right
It's time to raise the curtain on the He Who Must Not be Named Show tonight !

Lance at his mind games again...?  It appears Kimmage his nibbled the bait, purely by the reply, then the after thought.  I find this rather amusing.

Whether Kimmage likes the individual, what he's done, what he didn't do, what was said, what he didn't say, who he used, who/what he abused is all now well documented.  What Kimmage can not change now is the fact that he will ALWAYS be associated with the Armstrong story.  I presume it has taken up a lot of his life, but also probably propelled his own career quite a bit.  Who knew much of Kimmage before he broke Armstrong???

Kimmage needs to embrace this.  Come to the party.  Play your part Paul.  Move this story forward.

1. Who cares anymore?*

2.  Clearly Kimmage does, so why not interview him?  In public, get to ask the awkward questions.

*Yes I did read the article, but it just feels like resurrecting an old ghost now.