Lance Armstrong: 'I'd probably cheat again' — Transcript

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1. 0:00Lance it's been two years now since you
2. 0:03confessed a doping what's the time been
3. 0:05like since then for you the Fallout has
4. 0:08been uh heavy I mean maybe heavier than
5. 0:12even I
6. 0:13thought um and the way that the way that
7. 0:16um that I sort of told my story or told
8. 0:19the world uh through Oprah uh is as good
9. 0:23a job as I think she did or the best job
10. 0:25she could do for herself um you know it
11. 0:29was it was pretty brutal uh afterwards
12. 0:32so uh it's it's been tough It's been
13. 0:37trying uh it's required some some
14. 0:42patience uh but it seems like there's
15. 0:45some some light at the end of the tunnel
16. 0:48my biggest fear was I'd have that day
17. 0:49where where one of my older kids my two
18. 0:52youngest ones are too young to even know
19. 0:55or their classmates to know but you'd
20. 0:57have that day where one where a
21. 0:5813-year-old or a 15 18-year-old would
22. 1:00come home and and and just and just be
23. 1:02in pieces dad I heard this in the
24. 1:05hallway or or I read this on social
25. 1:07media or is this true or or yeah I mean
26. 1:12that would rock me when it comes to the
27. 1:14doping would you do it
28. 1:17again you know if I was racing in 2015
29. 1:21no I wouldn't do it again because I
30. 1:23don't think you have to do it
31. 1:25again if you take me back to
32. 1:281995 when it was
33. 1:31completely and totally
34. 1:35pervasive probably do it
35. 1:38again people don't like to hear that
36. 1:41that's the honest answer yeah that's the
37. 1:43honest answer but but it but
38. 1:45it it's it's an answer that needs some
39. 1:49explanation and and and it's I mean I
40. 1:51look at
41. 1:52everything you know when I made that
42. 1:55decision when my teammates made that
43. 1:56decision with the whole pelaton made
44. 1:58that decision like let's
45. 2:00we we get it it was it wasn't it was a a
46. 2:03bad decision in an imperfect time but it
47. 2:06happened when Lance Armstrong did
48. 2:09that I know what happened because of
49. 2:11that I know that um I know what happened
50. 2:14to the sport of cycling from 199 to
51. 2:172005 um I I saw its growth I saw its
52. 2:21expansion I know what happened with the
53. 2:23industry the cycling industry I know
54. 2:25what happened to Trek Bicycles 100
55. 2:27million in sales to a billion in sales
56. 2:29yeah I know what happened to my
57. 2:31Foundation from raising no money to
58. 2:33raising $500 million serving 3 million
59. 2:35people um do all those people want to do
60. 2:39we want to go make a different DEC do we
61. 2:41want to take it away I don't think
62. 2:43anybody says yes but what we want and
63. 2:46what I want what I would I mean I don't
64. 2:48really care what anybody else wants I'll
65. 2:50tell you what I would want to do is I
66. 2:51would want to change the man that did
67. 2:53those things not maybe not the decision
68. 2:55but the way he acted the way he treated
69. 2:58other people the way he he just
70. 3:01couldn't he just couldn't stop fighting
71. 3:04it's great to tr fight in training great
72. 3:06to fight in the race you don't need to
73. 3:08get in a press conference or an
74. 3:09interview or a personal interaction and
75. 3:11fight I mean I'd be fighting with you
76. 3:12right now I would be taking you on you
77. 3:16know that's the man that that that
78. 3:18really needed the change and can never
79. 3:20come back if he were a man on the street
80. 3:23or a cycling fan would you forgive Lance
81. 3:25Armstrong now would you say it's time to
82. 3:27move
83. 3:28on
84. 3:32well that's really not fair I mean I
85. 3:35listen I'm not going to lie to you I
86. 3:37mean I selfishly I would
87. 3:39say
88. 3:41um yeah it's we're getting close to that
89. 3:44time um but that's me I mean my my word
90. 3:47doesn't matter anymore I mean what
91. 3:49matters is uh is ultimately what
92. 3:53collectively those people on the street
93. 3:55whether that's the cycling Community the
94. 3:57cancer
95. 3:58Community uh
96. 4:00it's it matters what they think I
97. 4:03mean listen of course I want to be out
98. 4:05of timeout I mean what kid doesn't
99. 4:08what's really frustrating is that
100. 4:11if if my mom got Ms tomorrow and thank
101. 4:15God she didn't or doesn't have it but
102. 4:18whatever and that was something that I
103. 4:21wanted to help and I wanted to go work
104. 4:22for and and I you know I wanted to run
105. 4:24the the Boston Marathon and raise
106. 4:28$100,000 for the MS Society I couldn't
107. 4:32do it and I wanted to and I wanted to
108. 4:33not to run I going to walk it run a
109. 4:36little bit walk the aid stations and
110. 4:38finish in like 4 hours and 15 minutes
111. 4:41but raise 100 Grand I can't do it that's
112. 4:45wrong I don't think I don't know how
113. 4:47anybody thinks that's right but isn't
114. 4:49that the nature of a punishment that it
115. 4:52has to be a deterrent to others okay
116. 4:53that's a s an example some would argue
117. 4:55and that that may be at the EXP at the
118. 4:57expense of others
119. 5:00nothing benefits Me by going and running
120. 5:02a slow
121. 5:04marathon where is where is where are all
122. 5:07the other players in the story I get it
123. 5:09I need to be punished but we got to look
124. 5:11at the whole don't we have to look at
125. 5:14the whole
126. 5:14play you were the ring leader it wasn't
127. 5:17just the doping it was the bullying it
128. 5:20was the intimidation it was the lying on
129. 5:22you know depositions betraying of your
130. 5:24friends right and and some of that's
131. 5:26true some of that's not true there were
132. 5:28certainly a dishonesty there that I
133. 5:31think is uh totally regrettable