Deborah Ross

Can Lance Armstrong squirm? We don’t know because The Armstrong Lie doesn’t make him

Alex Gibney's film huffs and puffs and pedals like mad, but never gets over the finish line

Lance Armstrong: no shame, no remorse [Brian Worley - p4pictures.com] 
issue 01 February 2014

Alex Gibney’s The Armstrong Lies is fascinating as far as it goes but it may not go as far as you would like, and may not ask the questions you would like. It’s a documentary portrait of the American cyclist Lance Armstrong: seven-time winner of the Tour de France, worldwide symbol of physical courage (having survived testicular cancer in his twenties), founder of the Livestrong Foundation, which has raised millions for cancer sufferers, and something else.

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