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Report: Lance Armstrong Plans to Admit Doping to Oprah

Jan. 12, 2013 8:27am Madeleine Morgenstern

USA Today Reports Lance Armstrong Plans to Admit Doping to Oprah

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Disgraced cycling star Lance Armstrong plans to admit to doping throughout his storied career in an interview with Oprah Winfrey next week, USA Today reported early Saturday.

The interview will be taped in Armstrong’s Austin, Texas home and air Thursday on the Oprah Winfrey Network. Citing an anonymous source, the newspaper reported Armstrong will admit to using performance-enhancing drugs but probably won’t talk about specific incidents.

The 41-year-old cyclist has vigorously denied doping charges for years, but saw his athletic career collapse in October after a major report from the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency detailed allegations of drug use. He was stripped of his seven Tour de France titles and received a lifetime ban from cycling.

The New York Times first reported last week Armstrong was considering coming clean about the alleged doping.

Winfrey announced earlier this week Armstrong would sit for a “no holds barred” interview, his first addressing the scandal.

Armstrong’s attorney did not immediately return a USA Today request for comment.

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barber2
Posted on January 12, 2013 at 1:06pm
Has Oprah seen Obama’s school records ?

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- Verceofreason
  Posted on January 12, 2013 at 3:08pm
  SHe’s like a confessional
  
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- Gold Coin & Economic News
  Posted on January 12, 2013 at 3:39pm
  I’m glad Lance is coming clean, now maybe we can get Obama to admit to Oprah what a filthy liar he is and he can start with Libya!
  http://www.isthatbaloney.com/obama-knew-about-libya-terrorist-embassy-attack-emails-reveal/
  
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commoncents5
Posted on January 12, 2013 at 12:35pm
Why is Lance wearing a shirt advertising the Postal Service? Did we the people sponsor his sport?
I thought the Post Office was broke!

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- DougHuffman
  Posted on January 12, 2013 at 12:55pm
  Yes, Lance’s team was sponsored by USPostal until Discovery channel in 2004. Almost ten years ago – this is history that USADA would rewrite – but I remember.
  
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Jenny Lind
Posted on January 12, 2013 at 12:24pm
For all of you who have never had cancer, or someone very close to you have life altering cancer, you have a lot of opinions about a lot of things you have no clue of. One of the reasons we are not to judge is because we have no way to walk in anothers shoes. I will wait and see what he says. Personaly I can’t imagine that he could have done any of this without post cancer treatment, and what he did after being so close to death was astounding. Just being in the freaking competition was amazing, and after all he went through, he still won, that is perserverence on a scale few of us can imagine or do. It sure as heck wasen’t all drugs, it was raw courage and then shared courage to help others. Few on this blog could come close to what he has done and to be dragged through this is shamefull to those whose jealousey and desire to ruin him by those who have not done much in their lives is sickening

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- Eastinfection
  Posted on January 12, 2013 at 1:50pm
  i’ve had close family members die of cancer.
  Lance was once an inspiration to me and both of them.
  
  His dishonesty is a disgrace to them and all that supported him.
  
  He deserves nothing but our disdain.
  
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- SocialistSlayer
  Posted on January 12, 2013 at 3:59pm
  Jenny – Get a Life – My wife has stage 4 Cancer – yes she goes through a lot – But She Doesn’t Not Lie or Cheat pretending she is something she is Not ! Having Cancer does not allow this pathetic excuse of a Human being to lie and cheat others out of their own dreams !
  
  You – can idolize him all you desire that is your right – But I will always see him as a Liar, a cheat and a Whinny little Wimp whole deprived other athletes out of their deserved moment of Glory !
  
  Cancer – Is terrible – But it is life – and it does not give anyone a free pass to Lie and Cheat !
  
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JustJP
Posted on January 12, 2013 at 11:30am
I hope his former sponsors go after him for all the endorsement $$$$ they paid him. He should lose every penny he made from his cycling career. Pathetic loser.

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zoro51
Posted on January 12, 2013 at 11:24am
B F D this IS not news.. c mon blase… report on obamas IMPEACHMENT thats news not this crap B F D opras a druggie so is lance AND?????? so is lindsey lohan… MOVING ON

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- JayCee
  Posted on January 12, 2013 at 11:54am
  Reported under the topic “SPORTS”.
  If ypu have no interest in the SPORTS section don’t open it.
  
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Lara
Posted on January 12, 2013 at 10:57am
OK, my 2 cents worth.. Because he cheated he is a deadbeat in my book. With that said, have you ever followed the Tour De France? Its horrendous! My question is this, how come, if the blood doping was so performance enhancing, there were no others with 7 tour titles? I mean, he wasn’t the only one doping, and they all had been trying the tour for as many a year as Lance. Still he had been a better bike racer than they were cause they had not put together the strategy per race he had to to get those wins. Its not just about whether he has more red blood cells.. Most of the other teams had it too. He still had to go over 100 miles A DAY, for over 30 days up mts and down just like all the other famous tour people. So my thing is this, if he was just a normal biker would he have finished as he did? I totally think he was still exceptional tho he was stupid as heck cheatin like that!

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soybomb315_II
Posted on January 12, 2013 at 10:53am
All the cyclers of Lance’s generation were doping…and Lance still beat them all

you can take his metals away but was still great

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MBA
Posted on January 12, 2013 at 10:40am
OK, all along I was hoping it wasn’t true. Cancer patients need a hero who fought and won (I guess they still do but much tarnished) however-Lance: Oprah? Please it’s bad enough to admit to doping but to prostitute yourself to the sleaze b a g Oprah! He’s totally a lost cause.

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txannie
Posted on January 12, 2013 at 10:24am
Ok, folks… right or wrong on the “doping”, when you have been through cancer and the treatment and just come back just to live, you can cast the first stone. The survival through the treatment alone is a huge acccomplishment. If you haven’t been through it you have no idea. I don’t give a rats’ naked tail about anyones’ opinion that thinks it’s easy to do what he did with or without doping and if you don’t like my opinion..nuts to you too.

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- SocialistSlayer
  Posted on January 12, 2013 at 10:40am
  The Cancer Card?? Give me a break ! He is a Whinny little Cheater that got caught – nothing more ! It has nothing to do with his Cancer. Millions of people get Cancer and they don’t take dope to cheat ! Never let me hear you use this pathetic excuse to defend this little cheater again !
  
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- pghpatriot
  Posted on January 12, 2013 at 11:00am
  … is this where we are supposed to feel sorry for lance? i don’t understand why you are convoluting his cancer with the doping issue. you remind me of the Dems who mix and mash everything together until the ‘real’ question or issue is so obscured no one cares.
  
  i haven’t read anything that implies people are happy, pleased or glad that he has/had cancer and aren’t compassionate with his pain. But, that is NOT what THIS article is about. Matter of fact, having reread the article for the third time, i don’t see where the word cancer has been used once.
  
  My sister has cancer, so I am well aware of the trials and tribulations of those victims, but this is about his lying, and once thought of heroic efforts achieving things with drugs that he probably would not have been able to achieve without them.
  
  If you choose to use this admonition to teach your children (if you have any) about how to feel empathy and compassion for someone struggling with cancer, that is your right. I choose to teach not to be a coward; not to be a cheat; and have the guts to admit something if you get caught! Repeated lying merely proves your cowardliness. IMO, his search is now for sympathy (just like yours) instead of true forgiveness.
  
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- txannie
  Posted on January 12, 2013 at 9:00pm
  @socialistslayer…when you have lived 14 years with cancer, treatments, multiple surgeries and damage beyond healing you might have a relevant statement to make. Oh, and having cancer is a whole lot different from living with someone with cancer. No amount of sympathy can reach the level of empathy required to really know that your days are numbered in the shorter range and that every one of those days will be a battle of physical and mental will to make it to the next. I refuse to judge what others have to go through or what others may have had to do when I have no idea in the slightest what they have lived or are living with. NO ONE knows for sure what Lance Armstrong has or hasn’t had to do daily and I refuse to cast stones, unlike you obviously feel free to do. I think I read that your wife has stage 4. Good luck to her. It is a hard battle to go through and no one will be the same on the other end.
  
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pghpatriot
Posted on January 12, 2013 at 10:23am
Insult to Injury!!!!

First… who gives a crap about Armstrong? There are much more important issues on our country’s plate than what will probably be his tearful outcry to young adults NOT to do what he has done.

Everything has to be a reality ‘show’ for the average American to pay attention. And we wonder why we have the celebrity-in-charge that we do, and the morass this country is in.

Second: who gives a crap about oprah? just another narcissistic, vain, egotistical headline grabber who over-estimates her value to the world. without her money she’d be nothing! she is another .2%er who condemns capitalism yet has become famous because of it. she would lead OWS protests while she has millions of dollars of stocks.

just another socialist hypocrite.

Lance, if your looking for redemption, look to Christ, not oprah!

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Fitzzz
Posted on January 12, 2013 at 10:16am
Oprah should be apologizing for the white wash job she did for Obama

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- pghpatriot
  Posted on January 12, 2013 at 10:26am
  oh no!!!! you used the word ‘white’ in the same sentence with the name of a black person. YOU RACIST!!!!!!!
  
  The social socialist media will be contacting you shortly.
  
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- barber2
  Posted on January 12, 2013 at 1:11pm
  FIT: Amazing that Oprah operated in Chicago also. What is it about Chicago that it housed Ayers, Obama, Alinsky, Farrakhan , Wright, Rezko, Capone, Blago, Jackson , etc. ? What is it about Chicago ?
  
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- doglady
  Posted on January 12, 2013 at 6:19pm
  I agree.
  
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CorpsmanHM3
Posted on January 12, 2013 at 10:00am
Now he going to sob and cry on Oprah’s shoulder and say how sorry he is? What waste. Why didn’t he stand up before like a MAN and admit the first time around? Guess the drugs had dissolved his balls.

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- txannie
  Posted on January 12, 2013 at 10:14am
  No, they were removed by the cancer removal surgery to save his life. Just living through what he did is an accomplishment. You or anyone else should try it and see if they could do what he has, doping or not. Was it right? I don’t know and don’t care. He’s still an example to what you can do when you fight for your life with cancer.
  
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- DougHuffman
  Posted on January 12, 2013 at 10:22am
  Thanks Annie, Tx. Well said. The accusation is after the fact of his admission.
  
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- YOURSENSEI
  Posted on January 12, 2013 at 12:19pm
  This is what you must know:
  
  Only one teste was removed. Facts matter more than blather.
  
  It is so.
  
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- txannie
  Posted on January 12, 2013 at 10:34pm
  @yoursensei…he’s done more with just one than most men do with both….with or without doping. Again, he’s accomplished more than most can with or without doping and I will not be the casting stones until I hear the whole story…well, I won’t even then. As much as a disappointment as it might be if he did “dope”, it’s not enough to pillory him.
  
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RRFlyer
Posted on January 12, 2013 at 9:44am
Oprah???? Can Lance stoop any lower? Doping is bad enough, — but Oprah?

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- DougHuffman
  Posted on January 12, 2013 at 9:53am
  Lemons and lemonade.
  
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poorrichard09
Posted on January 12, 2013 at 9:32am
I hope he realizes that Oprah just ain’t the big deal she once was-not sure who will see/hear his confession. He’s trying to do a Tiger Woods “comeback.”

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- Magyar
  Posted on January 13, 2013 at 8:01am
  Tiger Woods’ comeback?? While he’s racked up a few more “Ws”, I sense future generations will remember him for his bedroom antics rather than his fairway greatness.
  
  ..And what about his children?
  
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FreedomPurveyor
Posted on January 12, 2013 at 9:25am
It’s easy to tell which pro athletes are doping – it’s the ones who are performing the best. Isn’t that obvious?

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jd9215
Posted on January 12, 2013 at 9:04am
All his sponsers are going to sue him. He will end up with nothing, when they are done with him in court. He might have to get a real job to pay them back. Karma gets these dumb asses sooner or later.

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- Gonzo
  Posted on January 12, 2013 at 9:40am
  He’ll write a book, cry for Oprah and the lemmings will all love him again.
  
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QuantumVerp
Posted on January 12, 2013 at 8:56am
Who believes he cheated and passed 500 drug tests? What does that say about the accuracy of ‘science’ and medicine? Lance has always been owned by big pharma. What does this do for them? When he messed up his marriage, they said, “here, Lance, eat some crow?” It’s just not right!

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- DougHuffman
  Posted on January 12, 2013 at 9:39am
  Armstrong has always been forthright in his admission of drug use. The accusation is ex post facto ignorance of the use of the drugs. USADA would have them be mere PED, Armstrong used them as life preserving. The conspiracy of ignorance masquerades as common sense.
  
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ares338
Posted on January 12, 2013 at 8:54am
Oh that will be informative..an interview with Okra Windbag!

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The_Almighty_Creestof
Posted on January 12, 2013 at 8:53am
This guy has no balls. Oh, wait…

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kickagrandma
Posted on January 12, 2013 at 8:50am
I was so proud of him when he won his first Tour.
He sold his soul for that high.
But, oprah, Lance?
How demeaning and disgusting!

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- IndyGuy
  Posted on January 12, 2013 at 9:29am
  He could have come to the Blaze to confess…They could have put it in the column right next to the transforming transvestite…
  
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Gonzo
Posted on January 12, 2013 at 8:43am
Gosh, I’ll never be able to think about French bicycle racing the same way again.

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DougHuffman
Posted on January 12, 2013 at 8:43am
When USADA hands out Lemond’s lemons, make lemonade Kool-ade for the know-nothings and progressives to suck up. Whiney’s audience is the only orgasm that cares a whit, they’ve never accomplished anything – even finished one eXtreme bicycle ride.

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- DougHuffman
  Posted on January 12, 2013 at 8:51am
  Winfrey announced … would sit for a “no holds barred[sic]” interview,” Holes, Barr’s? Huh? What’s that daddy-baby-momma, ahhh whatever Roseanne, got to do with it?
  
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flyoverbob
Posted on January 12, 2013 at 8:37am
My only question about this whiney little twerp is who cares? Oh I get it the Whiney Oprah crowd

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SocialistSlayer
Posted on January 12, 2013 at 8:36am
Only Dopes use Dope Lance ! You are a complete disgrace to America – You Commie Spandex Warrior ! Bet you vote for Communist obama didn’t you ! You people are sick, cheating Liars !

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Joyzee
Posted on January 12, 2013 at 8:36am
should read Agency Strong arming, Armstrong!

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