Lance Armstrong plans to admit doping to Oprah (USA Today)

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Lance is such a douche. Admit to doping in a sympathetic and controlled environment? OK. I hope this backfires on him and he's smacked even harder.
 
adamsappel said:
This isn't how cycling works. Everyone has a role to play. Some riders' jobs are to ride faster than the team "star" to let him draft and conserve energy, some to challenge other riders and burn them out, etc. And stop buying into the "jealous bitches" thing, that's Armstrong's lamest excuse of all.

Has Triple U eaten any crow yet?
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I dunno, but I'm pretty sure Lance has.






boom-tish
 
bjaelke said:
CBS This Morning ‏@CBSThisMorning
Photo: Oprah says Lance Armstrong "did not come clean in the manner I had expected." #OprahThisMorning pic.twitter.com/sgA522AA
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FGMPR said:
Oprah being surprised at this is the exact reason why she should never have been the one to interview him in the first place.
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Just saw the video it seems like the quotes are being taken out of context, Oprah seemed like she is suggesting that she was surprised Lance was answering the questions and at the end of the clip she said she was satisfied with them. I doubt she would have been talking to him for 2 hrs if he was going to dance around the questions.
 
fabprems said:
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Buahahahahhahaahhaa.
 
Kabouter said:
I really really hope he exposes the corruption within the UCI, but somehow I doubt it, he'll probably just expose other riders, both current and former. That's good too though, the sport really needs to come clean on its past, especially the heyday of blood doping during the 90s and early 00s.
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I doubt he'd do it on Oprah, but if he is serious about getting back his license to compete in an Ironman than who knows. I'm guessing he'll throw some higher ups under the bus, ignore teammates and competitors because they're pointless to his cause (and to probably sting the wounds of his former teammates), and maybe have some "redeeming" press moment with Hamilton.

The guy is a PR powerhouse and I have no doubt he'll come out on top after all the shit.

i just wish the two sides to lance weren't so dramatic. you've got one side that's capable of doing all these great things, and then the complete opposite that is one of the biggest pieces of shit on the planet
 
vas_a_morir said:
And the exact reason Lance chose her... but that's already been said a million times already. I wonder what the Hell this means, anyway? He gave a half-assed acknowledgment, I guess? Kinda like pleading no-contest?
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Celebrity interviewing celebrity. Why are they celebrities? Because. Uhm. Well.

In any case, both showing what they are truly capable of.
 
Another thing that I really want to hear - and it almost certainly won't happen in the Oprah interview - is Armstrong detailing the myriad of ways he used to avoid detection on his drug tests.

Many of the methods used by him and his ilk are already known, but it would be great to see him laying it all out after years of trumpeting this "most tested athlete ever" bullshit.
 
Oprah has done quite a few high profile interviews no? I don't understand what the problem is. At least its gonna be on record from this asshole that he cheated. I couldn't really care any less who the interviewer is.

Hell considering his ego, I wouldn't be shocked if he requested her specifically.
 
Oemenia said:
Didnt her show end a few years back especially with Ellen stealing the lime-light.
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She ended it to focus on her second network. People assuming she's desperate are off-base. I'm sure she has concerns about the channels success, but it's not like her career is jeopardy.
 
I'm not a fan, but rest assured Oprah is doing quite well on all fronts. She isn't lacking fame or money by any stretch of the imagination.
 
J-Rod said:
I'm not a fan, but rest assured Oprah is doing quite well on all fronts. She isn't lacking fame or money by any stretch of the imagination.
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No doubt, but I can't imagine how excited she was to land this. OWN has been a complete disaster and needs viewers badly. I doubt this will result in any sort of sustained viewership, but it's as good a shot as OWN is going to get.
 
BertramCooper said:
No doubt, but I can't imagine how excited she was to land this. OWN has been a complete disaster and needs viewers badly. I doubt this will result in any sort of sustained viewership, but it's as good a shot as OWN is going to get.
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Which is why this will be a two part special. lol

Part 1 will air Thursday night, and Part 2 will air Friday night.

2 nights of high ratings instead of 1!!!
 
Psychotext said:
You could say the same about Tennis, though PEDs are rife there too. Testing is laughable though... especially if you have a panic room.
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I'm fine with all sports testing to the max, but I was just making a point that suspecting any athlete, just because they're good, is silly. Especially athletes who retired a decade ago. lol
 
So NPR mentioned today that reportedly Armstrong denies being the ringleader of this whole shebang, in contrast to the findings of the USADA report and the testimony of his former teammates.
 
Addi said:
Status is power, in this case his status as a celebrity was completely built on a lie. The government should be allowed to take people like him, revoke their identity, make them unrecognizable through plastic surgery and throw them on the street. Hobo Lance would be screaming on a street corner "Do you know who I am?! I'm fucking Lance Armstrong! The government change my face!" and people would be like "Go home hobo, you're drunk! Who would want to be Lance Armstrong? lol!"
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This made me laugh for too long.
Deadly Cyclone said:
Well, I guess I have no reason to care about cycling anymore. It was good while it lasted. It's like the steroid issue in baseball, I think it makes it more interesting.

He did win after beating cancer, drugs or no that's a crazy feat once, much less 7 times. The whole sport seems dirty now.
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The sport is a lot cleaner now than it was during the Lance Armstrong era. Not saying it's clean, but it's pretty difficult to dope in the same way that was possible then.
BertramCooper said:
So NPR mentioned today that reportedly Armstrong denies being the ringleader of this whole shebang, in contrast to the findings of the USADA report and the testimony of his former teammates.
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I wonder if he's going to put the blame on Brunyeel. Isn't his case coming up soon? This is all hypothetical, but perhaps Lance thinks testifying against him will help Lance's cause?
 
someday said:
The sport is a lot cleaner now than it was during the Lance Armstrong era. Not saying it's clean, but it's pretty difficult to dope in the same way that was possible then.
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Ignorant question, but why? Is it just the general awareness? Or has there been some fundamental advances in detection technology that has finally caught up to doping? I thought the science of doping has gotten so advanced that it was really difficult to catch nowadays.
 
BorkBork said:
Ignorant question, but why? Is it just the general awareness? Or has there been some fundamental advances in detection technology that has finally caught up to doping? I thought the science of doping has gotten so advanced that it was really difficult to catch nowadays.
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The introduction of the biological passport, and general stricter oversight have made it considerably harder to dope in cycling, and impossible to do so to the degree that Armstrong did, let alone the degree that people that Bjarne Riis did. From what I've heard, dopers in cycling have now switched to a combination of substances that can be justified by legal prescriptions (the amount of cyclists diagnosed with asthma and other conditions is ridiculous), the use of doping that is hard or impossible to detect (testosterone patches for short durations before sleep) and smaller blood transfusions that can't be so easily detected. That's of course not good, but those things are nowhere near as potent as the blood doping that went on during the 90s and early 00s, and make it so that an honest man can win a race even if he is at a disadvantage. I would imagine that there are very few sports where doping isn't more common and done to a larger degree right now, since most sports have not adopted very strict anti-doping regulations and have regulatory bodies that clearly try to shield the sport from any major doping investigations. It was strongly implied for instance that FC Barcelona and Real Madrid were customers of doping doctor Eufemiano Fuentes, yet nothing came of that in the entire Operación Puerto investigation.
 
Kabouter said:
(the amount of cyclists diagnosed with asthma and other conditions is ridiculous)
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Funnily enough I'm a cyclist and I have a test for exercise induced asthma next week. Dr wouldn't give me the drugs without a test... I told him that I didn't compete so there was no need to worry. lol
 
Stinkles said:
Awareness. They stopped dealing with research (which was a tiny part of it) a long time ago. It's feelgood bullshit that has no useful measurable impact beyond making people feel like they are doing good.
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Yeah. That's not really fair to the Livestrong organization. Most of the money they raise goes to support the survivors of cancer. Tons of events, support groups, and financial support for people that have gone though any form of cancer. It's always going to be his greatest legacy.
 
BruiserBear said:
No, we don't have to wonder, because we have absolutely no evidence he ever doped.

Not to mention he competed in a sport that isn't plagued by doping scandal.
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Sure you can wonder. There's always that chance when you have someone so much more physically gifted than everybody else.

Not to mention how the NBA's dope testing program is a joke. As noted by the WADA director:
http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/8521302/wada-director-general-says-nba-gaps-anti-doping-program

"They do not feel they have such an issue as the other major leagues and therefore haven't addressed it in quite the same way," Howman said. "I just think you've got to be very careful when you start saying performance-enhancing drugs are not beneficial in any sport, because you're going to be proven wrong. And you'll be proven wrong when you're not expecting it."

At present, HGH is banned in the NBA, but the league does not test players' blood for it. WADA strongly recommends the test, deployed by many sporting organizations, including the Olympics and, in limited ways, Major League Baseball. The NFL is interested in implementing the test but faces hurdles from the union. The NBA and its Players' Association have formed a committee to explore HGH testing, but no progress has been reported.
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and even players:

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/blog/ba...-apparent-huge-steroid-problem?urn=nba,wp3662
Derrick Rose(notes) says that performance enhancing drugs are a huge problem in the NBA, in a snippet that made the pages of ESPN the Magazine a few weeks ago, and the reaction to his comment seems to have hit a fever pitch.
And while we don't question Rose's knowledge of the inner-workings of this league, and what he's seen versus what we've observed and learned from afar, this does appear to be much ado about nothing. I'm hardly the NBA's favorite scribe these days, but it should be pointed out that this league has had strict testing for both drugs and supplements for decades, with ever-evolving guidelines, and that those who have been caught in the crosshairs with these sorts of things have been quickly sent to the sidelines. The league tests, and the few who use get caught.
In one of those quickie Q and A's ESPN Mag likes to run every-however-often-they-publish, Rose was asked to rate the NBA's problem with PEDs on a scale from one to ten. He classified it as a "seven," and then dropped this:
"It's huge and I think we need a level playing field, where nobody has that advantage over the next person."
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It was probably alot worse back in Michael's days
 
In sports like basketball PEDs may give you an advantage in athletic ability but I don't think they can make your jump shot better. In sports like cycling or sprinting the literally put you on a different level of performance. They're still bad, illegal and users should be found and punished of course.
 
xenist said:
In sports like basketball PEDs may give you an advantage in athletic ability but I don't think they can make your jump shot better. In sports like cycling or sprinting the literally put you on a different level of performance. They're still bad, illegal and users should be found and punished of course.
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Dependent upon the PED taken, you can gain more explosive power which I'd imagine would come in handy.
 
So is it true that cycling is on the brink of getting kicked out of the Olympics?

An NPR report today said that if Armstrong implicates a bunch of UCI folks, the IOC might drop it in 2016, and possibly beyond if they don't get their shit together.
 
Incontinentia Buttocks said:
Dependent upon the PED taken, you can gain more explosive power which I'd imagine would come in handy.
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Like I said, they may improve your athleticism but not your fundamentals. You can take me, put me on the most high tech three month doping regimen and make me play in the NBA. I'd look like a fool. Do that with something like running or cycling and I'd be much more competitive.
 
BertramCooper said:
So NPR mentioned today that reportedly Armstrong denies being the ringleader of this whole shebang, in contrast to the findings of the USADA report and the testimony of his former teammates.
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He has zero credibility at this point so I'm not sure his quibbling with semantics is a worthy pursuit.
 
Dead Man said:
That would be a damn shame, I love watching the track racing. But if that is what is needed to make them get their heads out of their arses, it should be done.
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Removing the Olympics from the race calendar wont really matter - financially speaking. It's the sponsor driven teams that pay the salaries for the riders and they're not represented at the Olympics.
 
PotatoeMasher said:
He has zero credibility at this point so I'm not sure his quibbling with semantics is a worthy pursuit.
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It's basically along the same lines of how he'll re-write history in the interview though. He'll aim at being the victim, either because of the cancer or because there was some evil sports director somewhere forcing little old him into doping.
 
bjaelke said:
Removing the Olympics from the race calendar wont really matter - financially speaking. It's the sponsor driven teams that pay the salaries for the riders and they're not represented at the Olympics.
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Maybe not, but they will certainly be exposed as idiots who can't run a sport.
 
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