Armstrong 'confesses' during Oprah interview
 

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An unconfirmed US media report says Lance Armstrong has confessed to talk show host Oprah Winfrey that he used performance-enhancing drugs during his cycling career.

Armstrong recorded the extensive interview this morning, just hours after apologising to staff at his Livestrong Cancer Foundation over his fall from grace.

It was Armstrong's first interview since being stripped of his seven Tour de France crowns.

Winfrey tweeted:

Just wrapped with @lancearmstrong More than 2 1/2 hours . He came READY!

News outlet Associated Press reported that a "source familiar with the situation" says Armstrong confessed to doping.

Winfrey's OWN network would not confirm or deny the report.

"We are not confirming any specific details regarding the interview at this time," a spokesman said.

The interview will go to air on Friday morning.

Winfrey confirmed she will appear on CBS television this evening to talk about it.

Armstrong has always denied using drugs and has remained silent since allegations were levelled against him by the US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) in October.

"He's appeared on the shows many times and he's recognised that as the medium in which to tell all.

Cycling commentator Phil Liggett
Cycling commentator Phil Liggett believes the Winfrey interview will likely have yielded some kind of doping admission.

"He must have given this an awful lot of thought and he must have felt the net was finally closing in on him, and how was he going to come out reasonably well," Liggett said.

"I believe he knows Oprah.

"He's appeared on the shows many times and he's recognised that as the medium in which to tell all.

"That's what I feel is going to happen."

A Livestrong spokeswoman says Armstrong earlier held private talks with staff in which he pledged to help restore the foundation's reputation.

"Lance came to the Livestrong Foundation's headquarters today for a private conversation with our staff and offered a sincere and heartfelt apology for the stress they've endured because of him," Livestrong spokeswoman Rae Bazzarre said.

She added that Armstrong - a cancer survivor who founded the charity in 1997 - urged Livestrong staffers "to keep up their great work fighting for people affected by cancer."

Liggett says he is glad that Armstrong apologised.

"I'm rather pleased that Lance has finally come out and he's chosen, first of all, to go to his foundation because his heart was really in that foundation," Liggett said.

"Once the story broke back in October, he resigned as the chairman of Livestrong.

"But those people on the foundation have been so hard working for his cause and I'm glad he's chosen to go there first.

during the years he raced/won everybody was on dope, so he's still the best in my opinion

Doping doesn't make anyone a better athlete...all it does is enable athletes to recover way way faster.

Dopers work out hard 5 - 7 days a week cause recovery time is unreal.

Don't dope? Good luck working out at that same intensity 2 - 3 days a week.

anyone testing clean now will probably back test for something in a few years once testing catches up with doping.

that is too much ..

Bullshit. This guy took it to another level. Blood transfusions isn't normal. And that's just one of his many rumored things.

Dude makes me sick. He is a disgrace.

Here's to functional balls.

thought it was the Moon guy confessing to fake Moon landing

We'll see Thursday.

If you read this : http://www.lancearmstrong.com/news/l...august-23-2012

"The bottom line is I played by the rules that were put in place by the UCI, WADA and USADA when I raced."

He already kind of admitted it. By saying this, it means he used methods that wasn't illegal at that time period.

Nonetheless, he's still a machin and there's no drugs that can makes you Lance

Haters gonna hate. He's still the champ as far as I'm concerned. Dope or no dope, he beat everyone else who was also on drugs.

And cheated on everyone that didn't do drugs.

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:stoned

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he's smart. america loves junkies. look at charlie sheen.

Agree 100%.

Lance Armstrong is almost the perfect analogy for modern American Liberalism. Spandex wearing nutless white manlet publicly begging for forgiveness from a fat Negro mammy while the rest of the country nods in approval.

Sad, really.

Someone please kick him in the ball.

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Haha... lol, true! :thumbsup

Anyone who isn't doping isn't in the Tour De France.


"Jacques Anquetil, a French cyclist who won the Tour de France five times in the 1950s and 1960s, openly admitted to doping. ?Everyone in cycling dopes himself,? he said in Scott?s 1971 article. ?Those who claim they don?t are liars.? In Anquetil?s era, the agents of choice were stimulants such as amphetamines, but as early as the late 1800s cyclists fueled up with a mixture of coca leaf extract and wine called Vin Mariani, according to a 1983 Hastings Center report."

Good article HERE on how doping has been in sports for longer than you think.

Dopestrong
 

That's nuts... :1orglaugh

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:smokin

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Jan Ulrich and Marco Pantani were all doping too. I am not saying EVERY pro cyclist is doping, but all the elite ones are. Simple as that.

Even so, blood doping didnt make Lance Armstrong or Pantani elite cyclists. They were already elite. The illegal substances and practices take the elite cyclists and make them God-Like.

Same with baseball. Steroids didn't give Barry Bonds the ability to be the best hitter in baseball. He was the best hitter in baseball already, and the human growth hormones and bull shark testosterone turned him into a player without peers.