Lance Armstrong - Once again, too little,too late

As a morality play for our times the Lance Armstrong saga has a pretty hackneyed and distasteful plot.

It has however, an all too familiar ring of truth about it.

An individual with an unspectacular track record suddenly dominates a sport/bank/government/church and becomes so very powerful, so central to the future of their organisation or sport, that they become almost untouchable — until they outlive their usefulness or are dethroned by a more ruthless figure that is.