Lance Armstrong admits doping during cycling career

[SuperMillionaire]

Lance Armstrong Interview: Cyclist Confesses Doping To Oprah

Oprah Walks A High Wire In Lance Armstrong Interview

For years, Lance Armstrong denied using performance-enhancing drugs to win seven Tour de France titles and a bronze medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics, but in 2012, he was stripped of his seven titles and his bronze medal, and in January 2013, he confessed to Oprah Winfrey in an interview that he indeed used several performance-enhancing drugs.

With his legacy forever tarnished, the only thing he can do now is to persuade others to not dope like he did.

[NorthernChaosGod]

Everyone in sports is cheating.

[Mirage]

I'm not!

[Shorty]

Did he confess to doping when he won all of those medals? If not, taking them all away is a bit excessive. (I didn't care enough to read the interview.)

[Chris]

That Oprah interview was one of those "Well, duh!" moments.

[Mirage]

Did he confess to doping when he won all of those medals? If not, taking them all away is a bit excessive. (I didn't care enough to read the interview.)

Some performance enhancing substances can give long term effects long after you stop taking them. For example, if you take steroids to get bigger muscles, then lose some of that muscle mass after you stopped taking them, the body has an easier time getting some of that muscle mass back even after you stopped taking steroids.

[Shorty]

I did not take that into consideration.

Still, though. Being stripped of all of that is a bit much.

[Del Murder]

I never understood what the big deal over this stuff was. It's not like he wasn't a great athlete even without the drugs. I mean, if I took that crap I wouldn't be able get up off my couch and win a Tour de France or hit 700 home runs.

[Old Manus]

Which makes it all the more unfair on the dozens of competitors who built their whole careers around winning those medals without cheating, but never made it because of him and had to retire.

He's a disgrace to sport.

[maybee]

And they always said at the beginning of old video games and cartoons that winners don't use drugs. I feel lied too. Sorta.

Because he won.... but in the end he became a big giant looser.

[Pheesh]

I will never be able to watch Dodgeball again because of this.

[Quindiana Jones]

If I was his competitor, I'd probably accuse him of drug taking too.

[Mirage]

I never understood what the big deal over this stuff was. It's not like he wasn't a great athlete even without the drugs. I mean, if I took that crap I wouldn't be able get up off my couch and win a Tour de France or hit 700 home runs.

Yeah, but many of his competitors were great athletes too, but they lost to him, very possibly because a lot of those weren't using banned performance enhancing substances.

[Del Murder]

I thought the first 10 place finishers were all doping or something like that.

[escobert]

Yeah basically everyone is cycling was doping. There were a few who weren't but most were.


I think everyone's had a pretty good idea he had for several years now.