Sqrt_minus_one
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Prize money would be nothing compared to sponsorships, though.
Lance Armstrong plans to admit doping to Oprah (USA Today)
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Prize money would be nothing compared to sponsorships, though.
MalevolentPanda
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He's spent a lot on lawyers and is likely to have to spend a lot more in the near future. He's facing multiple lawsuits and presumably a prosecution for perjury.
It's possible that Nike and other companies that paid Armstrong for his endorsement may experience a negative backlash in terms of sales and respond to it by filing lawsuits against Armstrong for something. If a judge rules in their favor, Armstrong can lose everything.
Ollie Pooch
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She is loving watching him squirm. It's great.
Garrett 2U
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That was a gif, I hope someone else saw it!
Oprah like laughed, looked at the camera, then straight face.
Oprah like laughed, looked at the camera, then straight face.
Yup. *BOOOM*
I'm surprised she's being so tough.
The Elite
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Really? Oprah is a pro.
Yeah, but she's throws softballs at a lot of guests. I guess she really doesn't like him.
Ollie Pooch
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Watching this and knowing he would have just kept doing it if he weren't caught in the first place just makes his answers seem even more insincere.
OMG raised finger.
Yeah, she's really laying the boot in. I'm surprised! She is a pro, but I wasn't sure how she'd do this one.
And you can really tell she does't have much respect for him or his answers at all.
OMG raised finger.
Yeah, she's really laying the boot in. I'm surprised! She is a pro, but I wasn't sure how she'd do this one.
And you can really tell she does't have much respect for him or his answers at all.
Disagree. He seems to be going further, here let me add to that list:
He is going in. And the interview isn't nearly over yet. He could be a lot more guarded than he is. I'm just not seeing it.
At most it seems that he doesn't want to lay accusations and tell on everyone else thats involved. He is directly not answering accusations about other riders and doctors.
But to be honest, considering this guys history of bullying other people, I think its a good idea for him to not come to this interview and start blaming shit on the doctors and other riders. He needs to talk about the dirt he did and not shift shit onto the doctors or UCI. Take this shit like a man.
Probably doesn't like cheats.
I'm not a huge Oprah fan (and I'm pretty sure I'm not in the target audience), but the lady can conduct an interview, she didn't get to be Oprah by chance.
She doesn't like liars. I'm not sure if he had even on her show before, but lying then really gets you on her bad side.
Heisenberg
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Don't really see the point in his not telling the 100% truth but I don't believe for a second he didn't dope in 2009 and 2010.
Ollie Pooch
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"I'm happier today" (after being caught cheating, with the prospect of monstrous lawsuits over your head, a ruined reputation and being grilled on international tv)
LOL.
LOL.
BertramCooper
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Except for lying in the form of pseudoscience. She loves that shit.
perfectchaos007
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How can he imply almost everyone was doping when at the same time he agrees that by him doping he practically "phoned in" the Tour De France win
BruiserBear
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Because he was uber self confident? Never doubted himself?
No.
Maybe he had the Walter White of doping suppliers, most advanced meds.
MalevolentPanda
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But he keeps saying 'I'm not going to say that everyone else was doing it but wink, nudge everyone else was doing it'. Which 1) isn't true and 2) kinda ruins the idea that he's not shifting dirt onto others.
And he isn't admitting everything because he's already lied about doping post comeback and everyone else having access to the same treatments.
He said that thinking "everyone is doing it" was how he justified it to himself. He didn't lay a blanket accusation across all other riders, he has been explicitly staying away from accusing others.
You are pulling the bolded out of your ass. No offense but there's no winking and nudging. You are seeing what you want to see there.
not psycho
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Partly having a team of high class dopers to help him win. Partly better chemists.
But even if every team was 100% doping and using the same chemists, drugs would still change who the "best" cyclists were, because people have very different reactions to the drugs. If Lance is the best at something, he is the best at getting an advantage from the drugs.
For example, drugs which raise your oxygen storage obviously are going to help people with lower natural oxygen storage. A big, strong guy with oxygen storage already near the upper limit doesn't get much help. A smaller guy can use drugs to boost his oxygen storage to the level of the big, strong guy, a level which should be impossible for his body type. Thus making him superhuman, since he still has the lower body weight and now has the oxygen capacity of a monster.
It's not lying if you believe it's true.
People's bodies react to doping in different ways, everyone doping does not level the playing field.
To put it in simplistic gaming terms one guy might get +10 for stamina where another might get +15.
Oprah was notorious for having many, many commercial breaks during her hour-long block when she aired on ABC. I see it hasn't really changed.
Kind of confused. So it was really all official a long time ago. What does it matter if he admits to it or not when testers knew and already announced they were positive? What does your word mean? It really makes no sense that up until recent it became 100% factual. I mean two years ago I wasn't sure he was absolutely guilty. Skeptical, but not certain.
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robertsan21
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its obvious, fucking ass for still lying.
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