Lance Armstrong On Oprah Winfrey!

[craig johnson]

US cyclist Lance Armstrong will be interviewed by chat show host Oprah Winfrey, amid reports that he might publicly admit to doping.

Armstrong was stripped of his seven Tour de France titles by the sport's governing body, following a report by the US Anti-Doping Agency (Usada)

The interview - his first since being stripped of his wins - will be broadcast on 17 January on Winfrey's OWN network and live-streamed online.

A spokeswoman for the Oprah show said Armstrong was not being paid to appear and that Winfrey was free to ask him any question she wanted.

Still think his reputation as a top athlete is gone forever.

[gerrard]

to be honest i am ignorant of the sport of cycling but ... i have always thought it was pretty hard to complete them tours of .... insert country here without being on something to help boost them, they are too hard physically surely (i dont mean illegal here by the way, it could be some sort of vitamin shots or something, im not casting any aspersions here)

[craig johnson]

Lance Armstrong has ended years of denials by admitting he used performance-enhancing drugs during all seven of his Tour de France wins.

The 41-year-old confessed during his interview with chat show host Oprah Winfrey in front of a worldwide television audience.

"I view this situation as one big lie I repeated a lot of times," he said. "I made those decisions, they were my mistake and I'm here to say sorry."

However the American denied it was "sport's biggest doping programme", saying "it was smart, but it was conservative, risk averse".

The tens of millions watching saw Armstrong reveal:

he took performance-enhancing drugs in each of his Tour wins from 1999-2005

doping was "part of the process required to win the Tour"

he did not feel he was cheating at the time and viewed it as a "level playing field"

he did not fear getting caught

"all the fault and blame" should lie with him

he was a bully who "turned on" people he did not like
his cancer fight in the mid-1990s gave him a "win-at-all costs" attitude

he would now co-operate with official inquiries into doping in cycling

Sorry Lance, you are only saying what everybody already knew - you cheated the public