Juliet Macur of the New York Times wanted the fairy tale to continue.
Macur, a sportswriter looking back at 2013 on her beat, called out Lance Armstrong in Tuesday's Times for blowing a "perfect opportunity to apologize for perpetuating a fairy tale that had been built on lies." The fairy tale was that during the years Armstrong was the world's greatest bicyclist he was pharmaceutically pristine: "He was the guy who said that he would be crazy to put drugs into his body after surviving cancer.…
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