Report: Armstrong to admit doping

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Lance Armstrong plans to admit, in an interview with Oprah Winfrey scheduled to tape on Monday, that he doped throughout his legendary cycling career, according to a published report.

USA Today, quoting "a person with knowledge of the situation," said Armstrong, who was stripped of his seven Tour de France titles, will acknowledge doping but won't get into details about specific cases.

The paper said its source "spoke to USA Today Sports on the condition of anonymity because the person was not authorized to speak publicly about it."

The interview is set to take place Monday at Armstrong's Austin, Texas, home, and air Thursday on the Oprah Winfrey Network.

Armstrong, 41, has long denied he used performance enhancers, but recently was stripped of all his Tour titles and banned from professional cycling for life.

In October, the US Anti-Doping Agency released a wealth of material that showed Armstrong did, in fact, use performance enhancers and blood transfusions to gain an edge.

The report included statements from 11 former US Postal Team teammates, who testified against Armstrong.

According to the USA Today report, Armstrong's expected admission carries the risk of him being sued or held liable by parties that may feel he defrauded them during his years of saying he was clean.


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Maybe he can use this opportunity to blow the lid off the whole doping scene in sports, which I'm sure the wealthier nations such as the U.S., Russia and China have worked down to a finely tuned science that is hard to detect.
 
Foreigner said:
Maybe he can use this opportunity to blow the lid off the whole doping scene in sports, which I'm sure the wealthier nations such as the U.S., Russia and China have worked down to a finely tuned science that is hard to detect.
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Hopefully he will. And yes, its sad that many rich countries dope and will dope for quite a while behind the scenes.

Captain.Heroin said:
I've never understood why this was such a big deal. Seems a bit silly IMO.
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Because sports is supposed to be about human potential. Not who can manufacture the greatest super-human.
 
Ho-Chi-Minh said:
Because sports is supposed to be about human potential. Not who can manufacture the greatest super-human.
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sports

Noun

An activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others.
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Honestly, if you wanted to really separate the juicers from the non-juicers, here's what you should do.

Create two different leagues, one for those who are juicing, and one for those who aren't.

All of the sports fans who get disappointed when their idols take juice, can just simply only pay attention to and support the non-juicing athletes/leagues.

This way people aren't going to be punished for juicing, they will just be excluded entirely from the non-juicers.

Then again, just my 2 cents. It doesn't seem fair to pretend like no one uses juice in professional sports when it obviously happens. An immature approach is to ban juice in sports and to think scientists and the athletes won't catch up with the technology used to detect juicers, whereas a mature approach is to admit it's not going to stop, and to just separate the juicers from the non-juicers.

It's not like that's discrimination, people entirely choose whether or not they use performance enhancing drugs or not. You feel me?
 
Ho-Chi-Minh said:
Hopefully he will. And yes, its sad that many rich countries dope and will dope for quite a while behind the scenes.



Because sports is supposed to be about human potential. Not who can manufacture the greatest super-human.
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i think watching whoever could manufacture the greatest super human would be far more entertaining than any sport i regularly see.

I also think it's a bit silly to completely ban perf. enhnacing drugs, like genetics don't make an unfair playing field already?

it's not just about training and dedication, there is a huge genetic component, since that varies why can't we just throw in performance enhancing drugs as well?
 
Don't quote me on this, but I heard once that if Lance was fount to be juicing, the next legitamite winner of the Tour de France would be the 17th place winner or something like that, because almost every one of the past winners has been found to be a juicer.

At some point, just like with marijuana prohibition, the government is going to have to make a decision about performance-enhancing drugs....
 
Ho-Chi-Minh said:
Because sports is supposed to be about human potential. Not who can manufacture the greatest super-human.
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Considering that we live in a society that is obsessed with image, enhancements, and shortcuts, it isnt suprising that people use performance enhancing drugs to improve themselves. Moreover, in this day and age of science and technology, its naive to think that pro athletes and coaches are not going to take advantage of sports science to help improve their performance. The ironic thing is how people drink, smoke, do illegal and prescription drugs, and then point their moral finger at Lance Armstrong.

“This fake moral outrage about the ‘disgraceful state of competitive sports nowadays’ that serves as a running dialogue every time an athlete is busted for steroids is just about played out. The fact is almost every single argument against performance-enhancing drugs falters when viewed in light of how we live the rest of our lives.” - Jen Floyd Engel
 
slimvictor said:
Yes and no...
It is pretty hard NOT to use if all of your peers are using them.
Ultimately it is a choice, but those who don't use just can't compete at the highest levels.
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Which is why separating the juicers from the non-juicers would mean the non-juicers are not competing against the juicers.

The way it is now, they essentially are all competing against each other, and the people who are smart enough to get away with it, using the right substances and what not, is what makes it unfair.

Separate out the people who want to use performance enhancing drugs, and then it'd be a fair competition on either side of the fence. :)

And there would probably be a better sense of accomplishment to being 1st place in a group of people who are all not using performance enhancing drugs. :)

slimvictor said:
I would like this. But who would watch the games of the non-juicers? They would be boring, slow, and lame.
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All the sports fans who don't like it when their athletes turn out to be juicers would! For sure.

Then again I don't watch sports, and anything that happens or doesn't happen, wouldn't encourage nor discourage me to watch sports.
 
Food, drink, and sleep are performance enhancing. Clearly we should deny them these too.
 
Food, drink, and sleep are performance enhancing. Clearly we should deny them these too.

Personally I would pay big money for a front row seat at the crackhead olympics.

...and I hate most sports.
 
Captain.Heroin said:
Separate out the people who want to use performance enhancing drugs, and then it'd be a fair competition on either side of the fence. :)
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Not really because the ones with access to the best drugs would have an advantage over those that cant afford it. Also it would be very likely that some in the non-enhanced group would be on undetectable drugs or trying to game the system.
 
Captain.Heroin said:
LOL I could see a crack head running a mile and taking a hit just to keep going =D hahahahaha
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LOL

Nah, dude each crackhead gets a little taste befor the competition. During they don't get shit. No medals though! Instead the winner gets a lifetime supply of all they want. Notice I said THE winner. None of that pussy second and third place shit. Everyone competes in every event.
 
A crackhead would keel over in a heart attack before he reached the end of the mile :p
 
Lance Armstrong to Oprah: Story was 'one big lie'

Saying his "mythic, perfect story" was "one big lie," Lance Armstrong admitted to taking banned drugs and blood transfusions during all seven of his victories in the Tour de France.

"This is too late," Armstrong told talk-show host Oprah Winfrey in an interview that aired Thursday night. "It's too late for probably most people, and that's my fault."

He said he took banned drugs and that his "cocktail" to gain an edge was EPO and blood transfusions using his own boosted blood, plus testosterone.

He disputed that he doped during his comeback in 2009 and 2010, saying the last time he "crossed the line" with banned substances was in 2005, his last victory in the Tour de France.

But he still said his comeback in 2009 might have doomed him because it gave anti-doping officials a chance to build the case against him. He said the comeback "didn't sit well" with teammate Floyd Landis, who accused Armstrong of doping in 2010.

"We wouldn't be sitting here if I didn't come back," he said.

After denying the doping allegations for so long, Armstrong said he failed to tell the truth because he got swept up in the "momentum" of his own legend. He was the cancer survivor turned superhero, the squeaky clean rider waving the American flag in victory.

"It just gets going and I lost myself in all that," Armstrong said.

He also said he didn't think he could compete if he didn't turn to doping because doping was so pervasive in cycling. "I didn't invent the culture, but I didn't try to stop the culture," Armstrong said.

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Armstrong also apologized to those he mistreated as he tried to preserve the cover-up.

"Yeah, I was a bully," Armstrong said.

Not only did he attack those who told the truth about him, he sued them when they did. At one point, when Winfrey asked him if he had sued Emma O'Reilly, a former team masseuse who told of doping on the team, Armstrong wasn't sure. "To be honest, we sued so many people," he said.

He called his behavior "inexcusable" and described himself as "a guy who expected to get whatever he wanted and to control every outcome."

To make amends, he said he has reached out to those he attacked for telling the truth about him, including O'Reilly and Betsy Andreu, the wife of former cyclist Frankie Andreu. He said he spoke with both Andreus in a 40-minute phone call recently but did not make peace with them.

"No, because they've been hurt too badly," Armstrong said.
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