Lance Armstrong Friend: "People Don't Have to Like Him," but He's "Done a Lot of Good"

   

Lance Armstrong may only be making headlines at the moment for the variety of ways in which he disappointed his friends, teammates, fans and thousands of others who were inspired by his life story over the past 15 years.

But though it's lonely out on that confessional ledge across from Oprah Winfrey, the good Armstrong has done for cancer patients and survivors like him makes it hard for some to entirely dismiss him as a fraud who duped the world by doping throughout his history-making cycling career.

"I wasn't surprised at the admission," said Mike Thompson, a triathlete and four-time cancer survivor from Austin, Texas, who has known Armstrong

Lance Armstrong loses Olympic Gold Medal

Lance Armstrong no longer officially a Tour de France winner -- he's no longer an Olympic medalist either.The International Olympic Committee has stripped Armstrong of the bronze medal he won at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia, an IOC spokesman said Thursday. The committee has told Armstrong to return it.In October, the International Cycling Union stripped Armstrong of his Tour de France titles.
Armstrong responded a few weeks later by tweeting a photo of himself lying on a sofa in his lounge beneath the seven framed yellow jerseys from those victories.
The International Olympic Committee said in October that it was reviewing evidence against him.

"We have written to Armstrong asking him to return the medal" and informed