"If you ever wondered how Radiohead's 'Creep' would sound if Lance Armstrong sang it, you're in luck," says Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai at Mashable. Soon after the disgraced cyclist's confession to Oprah Winfrey that despite a dozen years of litigious, pugilistic denial he had, in fact, used performance-enhancing drugs to win his seven Tour de France championships, parody videos started springing up on the web. Netherlands-based video editor Matthijs Vlot has one of the best, splicing together Armstrong's own words (with an assist from Oprah) into a near-perfect distillation of what much of the world thinks of the fallen idol.
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