Lance Armstrong is one of the most-loved athletes in the world thanks to his story and his success. He has become one of those athletes that transcended their sports and became a celebrity in the world as a whole. And a couple of weeks ago, he came to visit here at the University of Kentucky.

Considering Lance is one of my biggest heroes in the whole wide world, this should have been amazing. However, I, along with many others, were largely dissapointed.

The reason for this was that we barely got to see him. I have a shot I snapped on my camera that I got between him taking five seconds to walk from one door to another, hardly the appearance everyone waiting for him was looking for.

Yes, its lovely to be in the presence of greatness, but if all you get from him is a "Whats up guys?" to a crowd of hundreds, you don't tend to feel all that fulfilled. Now, Lance was at the University for a cancer panel session, and as such, no one would expect him to stand around signing autographs for hours. But neither did they expect that five seconds would be all they saw of him.

Personally, I feel it really didn't have to be like this. The cancer panel was hosted in a tiny little room in the library. This was totally non-sensical. If they had hosted the sessions somewere like Memorial Colliseum, the former home of UK's legendary basketball team before they moved to Rupp Arena, they could have fit thousands of students in.

Now if they had charged these students a couple of dollars each to get in and donated this money to Armstrong's Livestrong Foundation, the day could have been a success for everyone. Okay, maybe he would have had to do a short Q&A session at the end of the day, but would that have been too much to ask?

It was lovely to stare at the Ford GT in the parking lot, but it wasnt what I or any of the rest of the people had been looking for. Hundreds of people turned up at the library, even though there had been no advertisement of the event. It could have been something so much better. Maybe what I put forward isn't the solution but there had to be something better than what happened.

So something that could have been a great event was wasted, which is a shame. To be fair to Armstrong, he did what he came here to do, and he's a very busy man who probably doesnt have the time. But for many people here at Kentucky, that halo of his slipped just a little. We found out Lance is human, and maybe thats for the best.