[QUOTE="CBS News"]A 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 person spoke on condition of anonymity because the interview is to be broadcast Thursday on Winfrey's network. CBS News cannot confirm the veracity of the AP source, but Winfrey [URL="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505263_162-57563777/lance-armstrong-ready-to-come-clean-on-doping/"]will appear[/URL] on "CBS This Morning" on Tuesday to talk about the Armstrong interview.
After the interview, Winfrey [URL="https://twitter.com/Oprah/status/290958167955869696"]tweeted[/URL]: "Just wrapped with @lancearmstrong More than 2 1/2 hours . He came READY!"
Winfrey and her crew had earlier said they would film the interview at his home but the location apparently changed to a hotel. Local and international news crews staked out positions in front of the cyclist's Spanish-style villa before dawn, hoping to catch a glimpse of Winfrey or Armstrong.
Armstrong still managed to slip away for a run Monday morning despite the crowds gathering outside his house. He returned home by cutting through a neighbor's yard and hopping a fence.
During a jog on Sunday, Armstrong talked to the AP for a few minutes saying, "I'm calm, I'm at ease and ready to speak candidly." He declined to go into specifics.
Armstrong lost all seven Tour titles following a voluminous U.S. Anti-Doping Agency report that portrayed him as a ruthless competitor, willing to go to any lengths to win the prestigious race. USADA chief executive Travis Tygart labeled the doping regimen allegedly carried out by the U.S. Postal Service team that Armstrong once led, "The most sophisticated, professionalized and successful doping program that sport has ever seen."
In a recent [URL="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-57562781/armstrong-offered-large-donation-to-doping-agency"]"60 Minutes Sports" interview[/URL], Tygart described Armstrong and his team of doctors, coaches and riders as similar to a "Mafia" that kept their secret for years and intimidated riders into silently following their illegal methods.
Yet Armstrong looked like just another runner getting in his roadwork when he talked to the AP, wearing a red jersey and black shorts, sunglasses and a white baseball cap pulled down to his eyes. Leaning into a reporter's car on the shoulder of a busy Austin road, he seemed unfazed by the attention and the news crews that made stops at his home. He cracked a few jokes about all the reporters vying for his attention, then added, "but now I want to finish my run," and took off down the road.
The interview with Winfrey will be Armstrong's first public response to the USADA report. Armstrong is not expected to provide a detailed account about his involvement, nor address in depth many of the specific allegations in the more than 1,000-page USADA report.
Meanwhile, Armstrong is in talks to return a portion of the millions of dollars in taxpayer money his former team, U.S. Postal Service, once received, CBS News has learned.
Senior Justice Department officials have recommended that the government join a lawsuit filed by one of Armstrong's former teammates that accuses the disgraced cyclist of defrauding the federal government. Armstrong's U.S. Postal sponsorship prohibited illegal doping.
CBS News has also learned Armstrong has indicated he may be willing to testify against others involved in illegal doping.
Earlier Monday, Armstrong apologized to the staff at his Livestrong cancer foundation before heading to the Winfrey interview.
Once all the information was out and his reputation shattered, Armstrong [URL="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-400_162-57548178/armstrong-tweets-photo-with-tour-de-france-jerseys/"]defiantly tweeted[/URL] a picture of himself on a couch at home with all seven of the yellow leader's jerseys on display in frames behind him. But the preponderance of evidence in the USADA report and pending legal challenges on several fronts apparently forced him to change tactics after more a decade of denials.
He still faces legal problems.
Former teammate Floyd Landis, who was stripped of the 2006 Tour de France title for doping, has filed a federal whistle-blower lawsuit that accused Armstrong of defrauding the U.S. Postal Service. The Justice Department has yet to decide whether it will join the suit as a plaintiff.
The London-based Sunday Times also is suing Armstrong to recover about $500,000 it paid him to settle a libel lawsuit. On Sunday, the newspaper took out a full-page ad in the Chicago Tribune, offering Winfrey suggestions for what questions to ask Armstrong. Dallas-based SCA Promotions, which tried to deny Armstrong a promised bonus for a Tour de France win, has threatened to bring yet another lawsuit seeking to recover more than $7.5 million an arbitration panel awarded the cyclist in that dispute.
The lawsuit most likely to be influenced by a confession might be the Sunday Times case. Potential perjury charges stemming from Armstrong's sworn testimony in the 2005 arbitration fight would not apply because of the statute of limitations. Armstrong was not deposed during the federal investigation that was closed last year.
Many of his sponsors dropped Armstrong after the damning USADA report — at the cost of tens of millions of dollars — and soon after, he left the board of Livestrong, which he founded in 1997. Armstrong is still said to be worth about $100 million.
Livestrong might be one reason Armstrong has decided to come forward with an apology and limited confession. The charity supports cancer patients and still faces an image problem because of its association with Armstrong. He also may be hoping a confession would allow him to return to competition in the elite triathlon or running events he participated in after his cycling career.
World Anti-Doping Code rules state his lifetime ban cannot be reduced to less than eight years. WADA and U.S. Anti-Doping officials could agree to reduce the ban further depending on what information Armstrong provides and his level of cooperation.
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This comes as a shocker to me, because I was thinking they were just being overzealous and pinning shit on him.
But now that I know this, I can comfortably say:
What a dope.
I wonder if his testicles were at the point of no return because of the cancer when he decided to dope up.
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Didn't he have to dope just to keep up with the testosterone levels of a normal, two testicalled man?
Lets wait until Thursday for it to actually be on Oprah okay
Still just one man's word against another's
So the man raises millions for cancer research while having cancer and is called a piece of shit several times over for lying about a fucking [B]sport[/B]???
Wow.
it's always oprah that cracks the case
All I can say is: Poor guy. [IMG]http://i.somethingawful.com/forumsystem/emoticons/emot-ohdear.png[/IMG]
[QUOTE=HumanAbyss;39222851]Didn't he have to dope just to keep up with the testosterone levels of a normal, two testicalled man?[/QUOTE]
When men lose testicles, the single testicle often ramps up test production to compensate.
The human body does not want to produce the maximum amount of testosterone it can. Its goal is homeostasis, testosterone increases RBC count (blood pressure) and can mess with lipid profiles, therefore having tons of it in your body is not exactly the optimal environment. Sure, a proper diet and whatnot can mean being healthy even with massive amounts of test in the body, but the body isn't about to take that chance and go "I'm going to make massive amounts of this shit and hope the brain part of me takes care of my health."
So once again, losing testicles does not exactly mean lower test production. Testicles are virtually never at maximum test production capabilities.
And you know what? so did the 27 bikers behind him. So much doping in biking that there's almost no hope of regulation.
[QUOTE=A_Pigeon;39223133]And you know what? so did the 27 bikers behind him. So much doping in biking that there's almost no hope of regulation.[/QUOTE]
It's a hell of a [B]sport[/B]. I will bet none of them went thru the hell that he went through or raised the money he did to fight it.
Reading local Baltimore news on Facebook... All people can say is he's a loser. Sad.
why should doping even be against the rules in the first place?
it isn't like doping is effective without actually ramping up your workouts along with it. basically it just lets people train harder and recover more quickly. how is that unfair?
[QUOTE=yawmwen;39223223]why should doping even be against the rules in the first place?
it isn't like doping is effective without actually ramping up your workouts along with it. basically it just lets people train harder and recover more quickly. how is that unfair?[/QUOTE]
Because they can perform better in a race, duh
[QUOTE=Karmah;39223285]Because they can perform better in a race, duh[/QUOTE]
you won't perform better in the race without actually practicing.
it's like saying "well yea if this dude trains 40 hours and the other guy trains 35 hours the guy with 40 hours will have an unfair advantage!"
if you really want a level playing field then make a limit on how long people can train for as well.
I don't give a shit. Lance Armstrong is still a cool dude in my opinion.
[QUOTE=faze;39222867]So the man raises millions for cancer research while having cancer and is called a piece of shit several times over for lying about a fucking [B]sport[/B]???
Wow.[/QUOTE]
People don't like to be deceived.
[QUOTE=Karmah;39223285]Because they can perform better in a race, duh[/QUOTE]
Except everyone juices so the playing field is equal.
The bottom line is that juicing doesn't really do anything but make the sport more entertaining. The guys at the top of every sport would still be at the top of those sports if PED's didn't exist. They are not only the most genetically gifted, but the hardest workers. Genetics alone will not make you great, hard work alone will not make you great, drugs alone will not make you great.
Usain Bolt would still be the fastest man in the world if PED's didn't exist but he wouldn't be running a low 9-second 100m dash. It would get boring to watch athletes perform every year and not really get any better. Modern society raises expectations of athletes every year and therefore athletes must use more and more PED's to meet that demand.
Nobody would watch the olympics if everyone was running low-10 high 9-second 100m dashes. Nobody would watch American football if it were a bunch of 180lb twinks running around. Athletes use steroids because we force them to, it makes things more entertaining, but doesn't change the outcome since the playing field is technically even.
I will never believe that he actually was doing steroids or took anything illegal to enhance his performance. There was an interview from a while ago where he clearly did not admit to doping, but the people interviewing him changed his words around to make it seem so. I think he's just doing this to prevent the controversy from getting terribly bad.
why do people care so much about lame-old cycling when you could care about the much more rad spurts like motorsports and eXtreme sports
[editline]15th January 2013[/editline]
like seriously im just so sick of hearing about this crap
[quote]A person familiar with the situation says[/quote]
Let the man fucking speak
[QUOTE=sedarahC;39222734]I wonder if his testicles were at the point of no return because of the cancer when he decided to dope up.[/QUOTE]
"doping" =/= steroid administration
doping usually refers to the practice of blood doping or the use of synthetic EPO
[editline]15th January 2013[/editline]
[QUOTE=TAU!;39223464]I will never believe that he actually was doing steroids or took anything illegal to enhance his performance. There was an interview from a while ago where he clearly did not admit to doping, but the people interviewing him changed his words around to make it seem so. I think he's just doing this to prevent the controversy from getting terribly bad.[/QUOTE]
So you will ignorantly believe that a man who came back from testicular cancer somehow beat a competition literally FULL of people who have been legitimately busted for blood doping and steroid use, not once, but 7 goddamn times?
Some of you are so naive just because you think hes a "good man".
Seriously I can't wait for the day the general public just finally accepts that elite level athletics is full of drug use.
[quote][B]A person familiar with the situation says [/B]Lance Armstrong confessed to Oprah Winfrey during an interview Monday[/quote]
Yeah, I'll wait for it to air on TV before I believe it.
Lance was a doper, but then again doping has been a problem since the inception of the sport over 120 years ago. That does not excuse him from the fact that he lied, cheated, and stole to get his way to the top, and routinely stepped on the heads of many a teammate. I don't care what kind of philanthropy he did, the fact of the matter is that he is a mean-spirited guy and anyone that knows him personally will attest to that. He let his ego get in the way, and for that he paid the price.
He is a liar and a giant piece of shit.
[QUOTE=yawmwen;39223309]you won't perform better in the race without actually practicing.
it's like saying "well yea if this dude trains 40 hours and the other guy trains 35 hours the guy with 40 hours will have an unfair advantage!"
if you really want a level playing field then make a limit on how long people can train for as well.[/QUOTE]
This has to be the most retarded post I've read this week. Congratulations.
You're basically saying that people who practise at a game and become better at it are the same as people who download hacks and bots.
[QUOTE=V12US;39225780]This has to be the most retarded post I've read this week. Congratulations.
You're basically saying that people who practise at a game and become better at it are the same as people who download hacks and bots.[/QUOTE]
Thats a ridiculous analogy.
PED use would be the equivalent advantage of someone tuning up their mouse settings over someone who doesn't.
A shit athlete with the best drug regime won't even come close to beating a talented athlete. At the elite level its talent + drugs.
[QUOTE=JaegerMonster;39225813]Thats a ridiculous analogy.
PED use would be the equivalent advantage of someone tuning up their mouse settings over someone who doesn't.
A shit athlete with the best drug regime won't even come close to beating a talented athlete. At the elite level its talent + drugs.[/QUOTE]
So the analogy may be terrible, but the point still stands. People training to become better is the entire point of sports and other competitive games. Using doping is like taking a shortcut that trivializes the whole thing. People who do it don't care about the sport. They care about the attention, money and prestige that comes with winning. Even though they didn't deserve it.
they only had like 30 witnesses testifying against him. not surprising
[QUOTE=V12US;39225780]This has to be the most retarded post I've read this week. Congratulations.
You're basically saying that people who practise at a game and become better at it are the same as people who download hacks and bots.[/QUOTE]
but it's not equatable at all. hacks and bots take you above what a human could do in any situation. taking steroids simply means you can train harder.
[QUOTE=yawmwen;39225862] taking steroids simply means you can train harder.[/QUOTE]
That's not true at all hth but yes otherwise its not an equatable scenario.
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