Just because Lance Armstrong has been disgraced, doesn’t mean he can’t remain defiant.
Armstrong recently compared himself to Voldemort, the fictional character in the Harry Potter series who is referred to as “He who must not be named.”
“I’m that guy everybody wants to pretend never lived,” he says. “But it happened, everything happened. We know what happened. Now it’s swung so far the other way… who’s that character in Harry Potter they can’t talk about? Voldemort? It’s like that on every level. If you watch the Tour on American TV, if you read about it, it’s as if you can’t mention him.”
That’s a different way of explaining it.