Lance Armstrong Ethical Decision Making

While reading this article about Lance Armstrong, I thought to myself what would using performance enhancing drugs have to do with ethical decision making? As I read further into the story it all began to make since. Not only is ethnical decision making important for businesses but, it is just as important for individuals. As we all know Lance Armstrong is famous for winning the Tour de France a record number of seven times. This is unreal for the normal human being and he did so after winning the battle against testicular cancer. I know you are probably sitting there wondering how can someone that has already been through so much from battling cancer go on to win the Tour de France seven times. Well this went through the minds of others as well and they began to question whether Lance was taking performance enhancing drugs during the times he raced. Mr. Armstrong denied that he had ever used performance enhancing drugs for many years and even told an attorney for SCA that if he continued to say that he used these performance enhancing drugs he would sue him. SCA was the promotional company that paid Armstrong

This is the problem we have athletes these days believe that they are untouchable and that there was no punishment for taking performance enhancing drugs. Lance Armstrong would later learn that this is not the case anymore. Arbitration was over turned against Armstrong in 2013 and he was ordered to pay SCA ten million dollars. This is just some of the money that Armstrong was paid by SCA during the times he was racing. Not only was this a huge hit to Armstrong but, after admitting to Oprah Winfrey in 2013 that he did indeed use performance enhancing drug every one of his sponsors dropped him costing him a whopping seventy five million. He was also banned from professional cycling for