Lance Armstrong Oprah Interview: Doping Confession to Winfrey After Years of Denial — Transcript

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1. 0:00now to the stunning interview with Lance
2. 0:01Armstrong coming clean to Oprah about
3. 0:04doping to win but did he really tell the
4. 0:07truth the whole truth ABC's Neil
5. 0:09carlinsky who has covered Lance
6. 0:11Armstrong for years is here with the
7. 0:12incredibly dramatic details Neil good
8. 0:15morning Elizabeth good morning it was
9. 0:16surreal to watch you have to understand
10. 0:18this is a man who was fought with
11. 0:20everything he could to maintain this lie
12. 0:22through vicious attacks threats and
13. 0:24lawsuits but last night Lance Armstrong
14. 0:26came clean almost as if he just decided
15. 0:28to flip a switch from somewhere deep
16. 0:32inside I'd like you to walk me through
17. 0:34it were there you know pill deliveries
18. 0:37and uh blood in in secret refrigerators
19. 0:41was there how did it
20. 0:44work oh we need a long time calling
21. 0:47himself an arrogant bully Lance
22. 0:49Armstrong had no good answer to explain
23. 0:51away one of the biggest lies in all of
24. 0:54sport I will start my answer by saying
25. 0:56that uh this is too late I view this
26. 0:59situation is um one big lie that I
27. 1:04repeat it a lot of times the men who won
28. 1:06the Tour to France 7even times only to
29. 1:09have his title Stripped Away admitted to
30. 1:11using a slew of performance-enhancing
31. 1:13drugs in such a matter of fact way you'd
32. 1:16never guess he'd done everything in his
33. 1:18power to protect this very secret did
34. 1:21you ever take banned substances to
35. 1:23enhance your cycling performance yes did
36. 1:25you ever blood dope or use blood
37. 1:28transfusions to enhance youry
38. 1:30performance yes he seemed to blame the
39. 1:32momentum of his own story surviving
40. 1:34cancer then making a comeback for
41. 1:36getting carried away you overcome the
42. 1:38disease you win the Tour to France seven
43. 1:40times you have a happy marriage you have
44. 1:43children I mean it's just this Mythic
45. 1:46Perfect story yes and it wasn't true was
46. 1:48it a big deal to you did it feel wrong
47. 1:51at the time mhm no it did not even feel
48. 1:54wrong
49. 1:56no scary did you feel bad about about
50. 2:00it no even scarier did you feel in any
51. 2:06way that you were
52. 2:08cheating no the scariest but he said
53. 2:13this interview his former teammate Floyd
54. 2:15Landis coming forward and telling all in
55. 2:17an ABC News exclusive was the beginning
56. 2:20of the end many people think that the
57. 2:22real Tipping Point was Floyd Landis and
58. 2:25his decision to come forward and confess
59. 2:28I'd agree with that that was the Point
60. 2:30yeah what those who know him say was
61. 2:33missing in the words the body language
62. 2:35all of it was any real sign of feeling
63. 2:38of Contrition were you a
64. 2:41bully
65. 2:44uh yeah yeah I was a bully I tried to
66. 2:47control the narrative and if I didn't
67. 2:49like what somebody said and and for
68. 2:52whatever reasons in my own head whether
69. 2:54I viewed that as somebody being disloyal
70. 2:56or a friend turning on you or whatever I
71. 2:58tried to control that and said that you
72. 3:00know that's a lie they're
73. 3:02Liars many thought the apologies in
74. 3:05particular didn't seem to have much
75. 3:06heart to them and then of course there
76. 3:08is the question of how much of what he
77. 3:10said can even be believed since
78. 3:11Armstrong clearly admitted to being a
79. 3:13very very good liar George that is the
80. 3:16bottom line okay Neil thanks very much