Armstrong: Yes, I doped, but it wasn' t cheating — Transcript

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1. 0:00Can't wait to see that story. First
2. 0:02though, Lance Armstrong called himself
3. 0:04arrogant and a jerk as he finally
4. 0:07admitted using performance-enhancing
5. 0:09drugs to win seven to France titles.
6. 0:12After more than a decade of defiant and
7. 0:15angry and denials full of venom,
8. 0:18Armstrong confessed to Oprah as she
9. 0:20fired off a string of tough questions.
10. 0:24Did you ever take banned substances to
11. 0:26enhance your cycling performance? Yes.
12. 0:31Yes or no? Was one of those banned
13. 0:33substances EPO? Yes.
14. 0:37Did you ever blood dope or use blood
15. 0:39transfusions to enhance your cycling
16. 0:41performance? Yes.
17. 0:44Did you ever use any other band
18. 0:46substances like
19. 0:48testosterone, cortisone, or human growth
20. 0:50hormone? Yes.
21. 0:54Yes or no? In all seven of your tour to
22. 0:58France victories, did you ever take
23. 1:01banned substances or blood dope? Yes.
24. 1:05In your opinion, was it humanly possible
25. 1:08to win the tour to France without doping
26. 1:12seven times in a row?
27. 1:15Not in my opinion.
28. 1:17Wow. She ticked off questions and it was
29. 1:19yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Lance Armstrong
30. 1:22called us to open cover up one big lie.
31. 1:24And Carlos, when Oprah asked him if he
32. 1:26felt like he was cheating at the time,
33. 1:28Armstrong uh said no. No. Armstrong said
34. 1:32cheating is defined as gaining an
35. 1:34advantage on a rival. So that's why he
36. 1:36says he it was basically leveling the
37. 1:38playing field. But why did he admit to
38. 1:41doping now?
39. 1:44That's the best question. That's the
40. 1:46most logical question. Mhm.
41. 1:49Um I don't know that I have a great
42. 1:52answer. I will start my answer by saying
43. 1:55that uh this is too late. It's too late
44. 1:59for
45. 2:01um probably most
46. 2:04people and uh that's my fault. I view
47. 2:08this situation as um one big lie. One
48. 2:14big lie. Right now, the LivStrong
49. 2:15Foundation that Armstrong founded but
50. 2:17has since resigned from issued a
51. 2:19statement in part saying, "We at
52. 2:20Livestrong and the foundation are
53. 2:22disappointed by the news that Lance
54. 2:24Armstrong misled people during and after
55. 2:26his cycling career, including us." Now,
56. 2:28coming up, Robin, we'll have the one
57. 2:31thing that Armstrong did not want to
58. 2:33talk about. And one of Armstrong's
59. 2:35accusers, you got to hear this, goes off
60. 2:37on him right here. This is a guy who
61. 2:40used to be my friend who decimated me.
62. 2:43He could have come clean. He owed it to
63. 2:47me.