Looking Back at Lance Armstrong's Many Denials — Transcript

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1. 0:00[Music]
2. 0:02as the world waits to hear what Lance
3. 0:04Armstrong told Oprah Winfrey about his
4. 0:06use of performance-enhancing drugs it's
5. 0:08hard not to be reminded of all the times
6. 0:10Armstrong denied drug use as early as
7. 0:131999 Armstrong was on the defensive as
8. 0:15whisper started that he wasn't racing
9. 0:17clean from the beginning people didn't
10. 0:18want Lance Armstrong for for a number of
11. 0:21reasons either he was uh he was not
12. 0:24going to be able to race again at a high
13. 0:25level or he was he was a risk of bad
14. 0:27publicity he had this to say to his
15. 0:29critics after claiming his seventh
16. 0:31consecutive tour to France title he
17. 0:33later was stripped of all his tour
18. 0:35titles the cynics and the Skeptics I'm
19. 0:38sorry for you I'm sorry you can't dream
20. 0:40big and I'm sorry you don't believe in
21. 0:42miracles but this is one hell of a race
22. 0:44this is a great sporting event and you
23. 0:46should stand around and
24. 0:48believe in South Africa in 2006
25. 0:50Armstrong explained the difficulty of
26. 0:52continuing to defend himself to his
27. 0:54accusers it's impossible to prove a
28. 0:56negative so you can say I didn't I
29. 0:58didn't I didn't and I
30. 1:00uh I was subjected to x amount of
31. 1:03controls and they're all negative that
32. 1:05doesn't always work for people because
33. 1:07uh I was dealt a situation where our
34. 1:10sport was rocked by the probably the the
35. 1:12biggest crisis in the history of world
36. 1:15Sport and when he spoke to the
37. 1:17Associated Press to announce his
38. 1:18retirement in 2011 Armstrong sounded
39. 1:21comfortable with letting his career
40. 1:22speak for itself I try not to let it uh
41. 1:26bother me um and just keep rolling right
42. 1:29along I know that uh I know what I know
43. 1:31and I know what I do and I know what I
44. 1:32did and uh that's not going to change
45. 1:36the international Olympic Committee
46. 1:38decided not to wait to see what
47. 1:39Armstrong told Oprah they sent him a
48. 1:41letter on Wednesday night asking him to
49. 1:43return the bronze medal he won in the
50. 1:452000 Summer Games in Sydney after taping
51. 1:48the interview with Winfrey on Monday
52. 1:50Armstrong came here to a gated Beach
53. 1:52Community in Hawaii he hasn't spoken
54. 1:54publicly about the content of the
55. 1:56interview telling the Associated Press
56. 1:58in a text message that he left it all on
57. 2:01the table with Oprah Jim Bell the
58. 2:04Associated
59. 2:08Press