Monday, September 24, 2007 1:53:46 PM
Meet Geneviève Jeanson:
Girl next door
World Champion cyclist
Admitted doper
How far does the denial go? This deep: for years, through hundreds of interviews, she claimed her innocence. Even through the first three interviews for a recently released Canadian TV documentary, she indignantly protested her innocence. Then, finally, in the fourth interview, she finally gave up.
And yet, even then, she really couldn't admit it. It wasn't her, she said, but some other person that had taken over her life, the product of a coach and husband who placed too much pressure on her to win.
"It was not Geneviève that lied," she said in Thursday's interview. "It was someone else I did not know. It was something I was told to do and yes, I do regret it."
http://www.velonews.com/news/fea/13360.0.html
http://www.thestar.com/Sports/Olympics/article/259333
An interesting window into the psychology of the cheaters. Along similar lines, Floyd Landis' comment to his own mother when she asked him about cheating, to which he responded "It's not like that".
Girl next door
World Champion cyclist
Admitted doper
How far does the denial go? This deep: for years, through hundreds of interviews, she claimed her innocence. Even through the first three interviews for a recently released Canadian TV documentary, she indignantly protested her innocence. Then, finally, in the fourth interview, she finally gave up.
And yet, even then, she really couldn't admit it. It wasn't her, she said, but some other person that had taken over her life, the product of a coach and husband who placed too much pressure on her to win.
"It was not Geneviève that lied," she said in Thursday's interview. "It was someone else I did not know. It was something I was told to do and yes, I do regret it."
http://www.velonews.com/news/fea/13360.0.html
http://www.thestar.com/Sports/Olympics/article/259333
An interesting window into the psychology of the cheaters. Along similar lines, Floyd Landis' comment to his own mother when she asked him about cheating, to which he responded "It's not like that".
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