Lance Armstrong Interview - Updates

[Necron99]

The Oprah interview is being broken up into two part, the bitch....

1st question though is bang on the money.

“Yes or no. Did you use take banned sbstances to enhance your cycling performance?’ And the answer heard for the first time is “YES”.

Asked if it is humanly possible to win seven Tour titles without doping Armstrong answers “Not in my opinion”.

He admits he was totally responsible but that there was an overall doping culture in the sport. He refuses to give names. He calls those who did’t dope are the true heroes.

[Necron99]

Rambling interview. Lots of answers are couched in the form of "As I understand it" rather than "yes"

Backnotes, there is a statute of imitations under which he can be prosecuted, which has expired for all events prior to 2006.

So we get:

He states he wasn’t fearful of getting caught in the early years due to the non intensive testing.He states he’s upset at accusations he doped during his comeback.
Denies any doping after 2005 where he may still be prosecuted.....

[Necron99]

Claims he never really considered himself a cheat, just leveling the playing field.
Laughs and jokes about the number of people he has sued to hide his drug taking.

Playing Oprah somewhat with the flawed character but now I'm better routine.

[Necron99]

Says he regrets his last comeback.
Asked if that was because it would have blown over and you would have gotten away with it......
"Would have been much better chance of that happening"

[steve down under]

Who gives a flying fuck what this cheating bastard has to say? he used performance enhancing drugs to dishonestly reach the ultimate pinnacle of the sport and make or should that be steal a shitload of maoney from sponsorships ,and now there is talk of removing cycling from the Olympics becauseof this lowlife self serving douchebag therefore tarnishing those who compete honestly and without a thought of using anything in the slightest bit dodgy .

Lance Armstrong do one and crawl back into whatever hole you crawled out of in the first place along with all the other cheats !

[Necron99]

He was and is, there is always the "but" though.
The whole sport is drug ridden. Any jersey winner of that time, and perhaps currently is or would have been doping.

[Necron99]

So, wrapping up todays session.
I did it (doped) before 2006, no specifics about what or when or how.
Lots of evasive answers to specific questions.
I was a bully in the team, but others made their choices (no names)
No one could have won those jerseys without doping.
I didn't think of it as cheating, it was what was needed to win.
I had a deeply flawed character and regret taking all that money by cheating, but I'm better now.
I didn't dope after 2005.
I regret my last comeback because I probably would have gotten away with it if I hadn't returned.
Even though I sued the shit out of people to keep it quite, I bear no ill will against those that testified (cause I'm a nice guy).

more tomorrow.

[Humbert]

He's a fraud. The sooner this is over and he is forgotten the better.

[pseudolus]

Has Doprah pointed out to him yet that not everyone succumbed to the pressure to dope?

[Necron99]

^ If that's not a picture of a dope....

but he did say, the real heroes of the sport are the ones who are clean.

[kmart]

There has been a long proud history of cheating in the Olympics and every other competitive sport since time immemorial.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doping_..._Olympic_Games
I watched a recent docu about the Russian weight lifters clean-sweeping their events in the 60's and 70's due to rampant steroid-taking, and was rather taken aback by a statement by one of the US doctors of the time saying that the difference between top athletes and mere mortals is that the athletes are prepared to risk premature death and massive heart attack / stroke in the near future, to win Gold today! The winning mentality, in other words.

It's about time that the hypocrisy of drug taking was eliminated by allowing top sportsmen and women to take all the drugs they can get their hands on, and see what they can really do. I'd like to see a sub-five seconds 100m in my lifetime, wouldn't you?

Who could forget the majesty of a crazed-eyed Ben Johnson blazing over the line in the Seoul 88 Olympics, streets ahead of Carl Lewis, and looking like he didn't even want to slow down or stop at the end? He looked like he wanted to do the high jump / long jump, middleweight boxing heats, and a fucking Heptathlon immediately afterwards. It was only Olympic stewards armed with Tazers that stopped him.

[baldrick]

It's about time that the hypocrisy of drug taking was eliminated by allowing top sportsmen and women to take all the drugs they can get their hands on

cool - we could bet on who will drop dead during sporting events.

[Boon Mee]

[Rural Surin]

It's about time that the hypocrisy of drug taking was eliminated by allowing top sportsmen and women to take all the drugs they can get their hands on

cool - we could bet on who will drop dead during sporting events.

This might be most beneficial to us all.....
Weed out the obsessive overt competitive types.


It's become nothing short of a business process.

[chassamui]

Weed

Even the peasants are obsessed.

[Rainfall]

US athletes wouldn't win a thing without doping. Remember who won the TDF the year after Armstrong retired? Floyd Landis. And who doesn't have fond memories of this jolly lady?



or Lashawn Merrit



Tyler Hamilton



Peter Pettigrew



Justin Gatlin



Need I go on?

[Moonraker]

I think he should be commended.

Whenever I popped pills and got on a bike I ended up falling off the fucking thing.

[Shrinking Violet]

dont believe for a minute his bullshit about he never got rid of anyone on the team if they werent "with the programme"

[Loy Toy]

I wish I could condition myself to only eat healthy food to make myself perform better.

Fucked if I know what I would do if my profession required I take performance enhancing drugs to compete against others who were taking similar drugs.

When you consider how records have not only been beaten but smashed over the last 3 decades then these drugs have been around for those decades.

I remember reading about how the 4 minute mile was once considered a human impossibility now people are running it almost 20 seconds faster then when Roger Bannister broke the barrier in 1954.

[AntRobertson]

Who could forget the majesty of a crazed-eyed Ben Johnson blazing over the line in the Seoul 88 Olympics, streets ahead of Carl Lewis

Didn't it come out in the wash that Lewis himself had failed successive tests prior to the Olympics that had been covered up by Athletics US?

Anyways, Armstrong = Knut. End of.

[pseudolus]

Lance Armstrong is a snivelling sack of shit and his ban should remain for life. Sure the doting american public will lap up his teary apology and say it's unfair. But he's a cheating kunt; a life long cheating kunt, and as such his ban should be lifelong as well.

[baldrick]

^ would he be eligible to become the ceo of a solar power company in cambodia ?

[Submaniac]

yet another breaking news story on Lance Armstrong:

Lance Armstrong Admits To Using Performance-Enhancing Drugs To Show Remorse | The Onion - America's Finest News Source