Lance Armstrong Admits to Oprah He Doped

[Political Junky]

Lance Armstrong admits doping to Oprah - CBS News

AUSTIN, TEXASA person familiar with the situation says Lance Armstrong confessed to Oprah Winfrey during an interview Monday that he used performance-enhancing drugs to win the Tour de France.

The admission -- made in an interview to be broadcast Thursday on Winfrey's network -- was first revealed by the Associated Press and later confirmed by CBS News. Winfrey will appear on "CBS This Morning" on Tuesday to talk about the Armstrong interview.

After the interview, Winfrey tweeted: "Just wrapped with @lancearmstrong More than 2 1/2 hours . He came READY!"

 

[Politico]

Good thing he said so or we'd never have known. Like Jodie Foster being a lesbian.

 

[waltky]

Disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong has been stripped of the bronze medal he won in the 2000 Olympics...

Lance Armstrong: The claims, the denials and the demands
17 January 2013 - Lance Armstrong's interview with Oprah Winfrey, in which he is reported to have admitted using performance-enhancing drugs, will be broadcast at 02:00 GMT on Friday.

The 41-year-old American cyclist was stripped of his record seven Tour de France titles by the sport's governing body after a damning report by the US Anti-Doping Agency (Usada) labelled him a "serial cheat". The US media have reported that Armstrong came clean during Monday's recording of a TV interview with chat show host Winfrey, which will be shown on the Oprah Winfrey Network in two parts, the second episode will be shown at 02:00 GMT on Saturday.

Winfrey said the American "did not come clean in the way I expected". BBC Sport will have special live text commentaries of both broadcasts. But before that, we look at the claims he needs to answer, his repeated denials concerning drug-use over the years and what those connected with the sport believe he should say.

The case against Armstrong

The achievements of USPS/Discovery Channel pro cycling team, of which Armstrong was part of, were, according to the United States Anti-Doping Agency (Usada), accomplished through the most sophisticated, professional and successful doping programme that sport has ever seen. The American was "engaged in serial cheating" and his career at the team was fuelled from start to finish by doping. More than a dozen former team-mates, friends and former team employees confirmed a fraudulent course of conduct.

Armstrong acted with the help of a small army of enablers, including doping doctors, drug smugglers and others within and outside the sport and his team. He had ultimate control over not only his own personal drug use but over the doping culture of the team. Team staff were good at predicting when testers would turn up and seemed to have inside information. The evidence is beyond strong and as strong as any case brought by Usada in its existence.

What Armstrong has said before

See also:

Lance Armstrong stripped of Olympic medal as airing of Oprah interview nears
Thu January 17, 2013 - Lance Armstrong is stripped of his 2000 bronze medal; International Olympic Committee made decision in December; Armstrong was stripped of his Tour de France titles in October; First part of his interview with Oprah Winfrey airs Thursday night

Not only is disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong no longer officially a Tour de France winner -- he's no longer an Olympic medalist, either. The International Olympic Committee has stripped Armstrong of the bronze medal he won at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia, an IOC spokesman said Thursday. The committee told Armstrong to return it. The move came in advance of a televised interview in which Armstrong is believed to acknowledge for the first time that he used prohibited performance-enhancing drugs in his career.

While talk-show host Oprah Winfrey has not released details of exactly what Armstrong said in the recorded interview, she appeared to confirm media reports Tuesday that the former seven-time Tour de France champion admits doping and lying about it. The interview will air in two parts on Thursday and Friday nights. In October, the International Cycling Union stripped Armstrong of his Tour de France titles. Armstrong responded a few weeks later by tweeting a photo of himself lying on a sofa in his lounge beneath the seven framed yellow jerseys from those victories.

The International Olympic Committee said in October that it was reviewing evidence against him. Armstrong came in third in the Men's Individual Time Trial and 13th in the men's individual road race. He is retroactively disqualified in both races, the IOC said. "We have written to Armstrong asking him to return the medal" and informed the U.S. Olympic Committee, IOC spokesman Mark Adams said Thursday. It's up to the U.S. committee to handle retrieving the medal from Armstrong, the IOC said.

The decision was made "in principle" at a meeting of the IOC executive board in December, Adams said. The committee did not act on the decision until it received confirmation from the International Cycling Union that Armstrong was not appealing that agency's decision. The USOC was notified Wednesday that the IOC wants the medal back, USOC spokesman Patrick Sandusky said. "We will shortly be asking Mr. Armstrong to return his medal to us, so that we can return it to the IOC."

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[PoliticalChic]

Well, if he didn't inhale the stuff.....he can be the Democrat nominee for President.

 

[PoliticalChic]

Good thing he said so or we'd never have known. Like Jodie Foster being a lesbian.

John Hinckley, Jr. called.....he wants your address......that OK?

 

[g5000]

This admission will cost him millions. I don't know what he is thinking, but if he is thinking this is the way back into the sport, he's nuts. He will never be allowed back in the sport, and he should be banned for life anyway.

 

[Oddball]

Did he cry?

 

[Sunni Man]

^^^ Why would he cry??

That is only for disgraced television evangelists.........

 

[Paulie]

I don't really get the whole banning of PED's thing. There are all kinds of ways to enhance your muscle growth and performance that aren't banned. Protein and creatine aren't banned substances, but they can give an athlete an edge over others when used accordingly. Prohormones and even steroids just change the hormone levels in the body and the muscles react.

At the end of the day, there's really no difference when you consider it in a "performance enhancing" light.

 

[Pogo]

This is supposed to be the Media forum. Why isn't this thread in Sports??

 

[UseCaution]

As I am not a follower of cycling greatest moments. I do see a consistency in the top say 100 that overall times are relatively equal. So as for lance doping? I feel doping avoidance was the game.

 

[Desperado]

Why do people feel the need to confess to Oprah?
Do they feel she has some special power of absolution?
Besides Everyone knew that lance was guilty has hell.

 

[UseCaution]

Why do people feel the need to confess to Oprah?
Do they feel she has some special power of absolution?
Besides Everyone knew that lance was guilty has hell.

I say they were naively gullible, and have hurt feelings?