AJC writer wonders what to do with photo of Lance Armstrong, Rome boy
by Jim Galloway, AJC insider
Oct 11, 2012 | 2046 views | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend | print
My moral dilemma of the afternoon is a prized photo that has followed me around for a number of years, shot by my AJC colleague Brant Sanderlin.

In the picture, a desperate 11-year-old boy named Samuel Douglas, wrapped in an American flag, urges on his hero Lance Armstrong during an uphill pull during a Rome time trial, part of the 2004 Tour de Georgia.

The photo sits in the office, next to a Sarah Palin movie bill. The question is, what to do with it? The young man and his passion were real. It is the cyclist who turned out to be fake.

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