Seven Titles Lost: Price of Dishonesty
On October 22, 2012, Lance Armstrong was formally stripped of the seven Tour de France titles he had won from 1999 to 2005 and banned from competitive cycling for life, after investigators found he had systematically used performance-enhancing drugs and had urged some teammates to dope to help him win. He had denied every accusation for years and claimed to have passed hundreds of drug tests, but in October 2012 the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency released sworn testimony from 11 former teammates and evidence it called the most sophisticated doping program in cycling history — and in the same month he lost his cancer-foundation chairmanship and most of his sponsors. It was a dramatic fall for the world's most famous cyclist, who had inspired millions after surviving advanced testicular cancer and then winning the Tour seven straight years. Read more on History.com
Fame can survive a great deal, but not a lie that is finally told. What we gain by deceit can be taken away in a day — what we build with truth, no one can take.
“Honesty guides good people; dishonesty destroys treacherous people.”