IHN – Moore came from a different era, not sure that same gentlemanliness would have stacked up under the different pressures today (I’m not knocking him, superb player and a legend for sure – just a different era)
Beckham – another vv good player, maybe a great, successful to a degree, but in the same class of total world dominance as Armstrong?
I’m sure LA is an absolute **** at times but equally that’s what has driven him to the very top time and again. Whether clean or not, to do what he has from where he started from takes more than a nice-guy attitude. Pure selfish determination, and if that means clearing everything / everyone in front of him out of the way, so be it. What is it, 2 failed marriages now, etc…. Would I want to be like that – no, I have other priorities but that’s why I’ll never win a grand Tour. Among other reasons.
And so to Chris Hoy. So far at least, the exception that proves the rule that nice guys don’t usually make great sportspeople. But equally, you wouldn’t cross him would you….?