Heat’s on Armstrong on U.K. bonfire night
LONDON — His career is in ruins and now an effigy of Lance Armstrong is about to go up in smoke.
The disgraced American cyclist has been chosen as the latest celebrity to be burnt in effigy during an English town’s nationally famous Bonfire Night celebrations.
Edenbridge in southeast England has built a ninemetre model of Armstrong.
The effigy, to be burnt Saturday, sports a sign saying “For sale, racing bike, no longer required.”
Towns across Britain light bonfires and set off fireworks on Nov. 5 to commemorate Guy Fawkes’s failed plot in 1605 to blow up Parliament.