Adam Rippon Slams ‘Greatest Cheater in American Sports’ Lance Armstrong Over Anti-Trans Comments
Fox’s quirky new celeb reality game show, Stars on Mars took a confrontational turn on Monday night’s episode, when Lance Armstrong decided to start airing his opinions on transgender athletes in sports in front of his shocked and appalled castmates.
The series is a star-studded reality TV competition akin to recent entries like Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test and The Traitors, which casts celebrities, athletes, and major personalities and places them in unfamiliar scenarios. In this case, that’s a mock Mars pod, where the celebs live while they duke it out for the title of “The Brightest Star in the Galaxy.”
So it was a surprise when, this week, Armstong addressed MMA fighter Rhonda Rousey, asking why the creation of a separate category of competition for trans women in sports would be “unfair”—an interesting choice of words from the disgraced cyclist who has confessed to using banned substances for the majority of his career.