Side Effect's of Armstrong's Doping Admission

After years of denial, cyclist Lance Armstrong admitted to using performance enhancing substances during a taped interview with Oprah Winfrey on Monday night. The side effects of using the drugsreach far beyond Armstrong's damaged career.

He's more than just a cyclist.Lance Armstrong's Tour De France wins after battling cancer were an inspiration.

But Jeff Wentworth of JB Cycle and Sport has been suspicious for a while now.

"To win seven tours, especially after cancer, we kind of thought he might have been enhanced."

The news of Armstrong's admission to using performance enhancing substances could be damaging to an aspiring athlete, but House of Speed's trainer Scotty Smith says his young athletes aren't fazed.

"I don't think our kids feel that disappointment, because they're growing up in a society where this is part of the norm for them."

In fact, just this past year Packers lineman Mike Neal and a handful of otherNFL players have been suspended for using items on theNFL's banned substance list.

"Doping" has become so common, that's how Armstrong's supporters defend him.

"Since everyone else was doping, they were all on the same playing field. So, he did it not to win but to stay even and that's a justification you hear quite often," says Wentworth.

Smith adds, "But on the flip side, I also realize that, in training athletes, doping or no doping, it's an incredible feat to do what he did that many times."

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Side Effect's of Armstrong's Doping Admission