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Jan. 18, 2013 9:56pm Becket Adams

ABC News Reports Disgraced Biker Lance Armstrong May Have Lied During What was Supposed to be a National Apology

Lance Armstrong admitted to Oprah that he doped through all seven Tour victories. (Photo: AFP/GETTY)

Disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong sat down with Oprah Winfrey earlier this week to publicly apologize for lying to his fans and the American public about his “doping” habits.

However, according to ABC News, while supposedly “coming clean” about “juicing,” Armstrong may have lied to his Oprah.

ABC News explains:

Armstrong, 41, admitted for the first time that his decade-long dominance of cycling and seven wins in the Tour de France were owed, in part, to performance-enhancing drugs and oxygen-boosting blood transfusions. He told Winfrey that he was taking the opportunity to confess to everything he had done wrong, including angrily denying reports for years claiming that he had doped.

Investigators familiar with Armstrong’s case, however, said today that Armstrong didn’t completely come clean. They say he blatantly lied about when he stopped doping, saying the last time he used the drugs and transfusions was the 2005 race.

“That’s the only thing in this whole report that upset me,” Armstrong said during the interview. “The accusation and alleged proof that they said I doped [in 2009] is not true. The last time I crossed the line, that line was 2005.”

“You did not do a blood transfusion in 2009?” Winfrey asked.

“No, 2009 and 2010 absolutely not,” Armstrong said.

However, contrary to what Armstrong says, investigators familiar with his “juicing” disagree with his version of events.

“They said today that Armstrong’s blood values at the 2009 race showed clear blood manipulation consistent with two transfusions,” ABC News reports. “Armstrong’s red blood cell count suddenly went up at these points, even though the number of baby red blood cells did not.”

Bottom line: Armstrong received a transfusion of mature red blood cells, according to investigators.

“If Armstrong lied about the 2009 race, it could be to protect himself criminally,” investigators said.

Wow. If the investigators are right, and Armstrong did indeed lie during his interview with Oprah, what’s the penalty for lying to your confessor?

Exit Question: Why is he confessing to Oprah anyway? Did we miss something?

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Comments (39)

hades3
Posted on January 19, 2013 at 3:45pm
Ask me if I care about Armstrong or the big O’s. Either she or Obama are not important when it comes too their contribution to the Republic. No doubt, Obama considers the Armstrong situation
a “crisis not too be wasted”, just like the school shooting.

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LilMissSunshine
Posted on January 19, 2013 at 12:05pm
I find it disturbing that ABC News is portraying themselves as “truth seekers”. This network and their reporters are famous for filtering the news. Very hypocritical (as usual).

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- Settler0472
  Posted on January 19, 2013 at 3:11pm
  To Lilmisssunshine: You are so correct…couldn’t said better
  
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- SocialistSlayer
  Posted on January 19, 2013 at 3:24pm
  Meanwhile — back at the Black House—- – Communist obama is quietly penning orders to confiscate your weapons and declare the Tea Party Terrorists !
  
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LevAronson
Posted on January 19, 2013 at 10:33am
Two of the biggest egos in history sit down to chat. How much truth do you really expect?

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TelepromoterNChief
Posted on January 19, 2013 at 8:55am
There goes fat Oprah’s ratings…

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- Ballot_Box_Revolution
  Posted on January 19, 2013 at 10:27am
  This story, the Teo (whatever his name is) story, they are both cake. Eat it!! And stop paying attention to the important things going on. He probably was telling a lie at one point or another…Maybe he was paid so me big bucks to pretend he was doping….or maybe paid big bucks to come out….whatever…If he was or was not it doesn’t effect anything important….
  
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jbcheesehead
Posted on January 19, 2013 at 7:55am
Let’s drop the Lance Armstrong story and get back to saving our country. Lance is not the great pretender–Obama is.

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- wayner4162
  Posted on January 19, 2013 at 8:49am
  This is stuff for the toilet!
  
  There are serious things to deal with for our children’s sake! For their future, who really gives a dam about this crap!
  
  I am not a white supremacist, I am a white survivalist!
  
  Boycotts and other civil non-cooperation methods need to be an ongoing movement against any who involve themselves in the demise of White Males in this country, some big effect starters would be the boycott of all things, Hollywood, hit where it hurts, take away their income, find out who the major players of the liberal media are find ways of non- cooperation, boycott there programs all, absolutely stop attending professional sports events, take that income away from those who laugh at white males behind their backs, let professional sports DIE, let Hollywood DIE, let the news media DIE, their controllers all support each other in the demise of White Males in this country.
  White conservative Males need to unite in a national strong bond, exercising civil non-cooperation in all things that make this country work, if they have a any kind of a problem, let them fix it, if white males were to stop cooperating in all situations where those who hate them , but depend on them need their help, I say stop helping them to destroy you.BUT, shun liberals and Gays, they can do what they do, but they need to change their ways, they are wrong in what they do AND THEY KNOW IT! And if we lose our country, they will be the biggest suckers of the world and will be the first to s
  
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- for HIS glory
  Posted on January 19, 2013 at 8:54am
  RIGHT ON cheesy!!
  
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Gonzo
Posted on January 19, 2013 at 7:42am
Wait, who cares about Lance Armstrong anyway?

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- jcldwl
  Posted on January 19, 2013 at 7:58am
  Thanks Gonzo that is what I came here to say myself. I’m tired of hearing about him. All the athlete’s dope up. There are millions of dollars at stake. These have become non-stories.
  
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- for HIS glory
  Posted on January 19, 2013 at 8:55am
  Arm WEAK strong, Notre Dame….let’s try, uh, uh…oh yeh, SAVE THE REPUBLIC!
  
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ellietoo
Posted on January 19, 2013 at 7:01am
Of course he lied. It is his native language. He also totally avoided answering questions.

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- Settler0472
  Posted on January 19, 2013 at 3:13pm
  he didn’t avoid anything! He just didn’t throw people under the bus, like she wanted him too.
  
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betterpart
Posted on January 19, 2013 at 4:13am
Gosh move on with this Armstrong crap already.

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- Exiled
  Posted on January 19, 2013 at 5:30am
  Yes, please. Nobody cares.
  
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- ICSPADES
  Posted on January 19, 2013 at 6:54am
  Obama has lied time after time and nobody seemed to care about that. That is because most have been brain washed.
  
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- ares338
  Posted on January 19, 2013 at 7:25am
  Jeez…I didn’t care when he did it and I care a whole bunch less now.
  
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truthhasno
Posted on January 19, 2013 at 2:20am
Lots to learn here
“You Cannot Control the outcome of anything” – Lance Armstrong 19/1/2013
Lance Fell for an old Trap
“The Performance Trap”
But We Are Part of the Trap
When We Build Up Celebrities and Sports Stars Way Beyond Who they are
And them Turn them into Idols to be worshiped
Then Don’t Be Surprised When They Attempt to Become the Image We have created for them
By use of deceit

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AltaOil2
Posted on January 19, 2013 at 12:43am
Jim Carry said it best……”LLLLO SSS’ ER!”
I say X2

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- sillyfreshness
  Posted on January 19, 2013 at 1:29am
  Anyone who would get blood transfusions to win a bike race is nuts. You couldn’t pay me enough to do that.
  
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PerryB
Posted on January 19, 2013 at 12:37am
Lance got his on Opera. (pshyco)
HIS LAWYERS GOT HIM!
They advised him going on the O knowing all the lawsuits that would follow.
He should have just gone away with his millions.
KARMA

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PROUD_2B_American
Posted on January 19, 2013 at 12:33am
Who cares

Everyone cheats….. well, let me rephrase that, everyone winning pushes the rules and tries to win. Eventually, those that try and compete legally, give up and try something to win.

AND WE make them into our hero’s

Look at Smokey Yunick, Junior Johnson (also a moonshiner), Carroll Shelby. MY GOD Carroll Shelby would sit and laugh and would reminisce OPENLY about his ideas and success cheating.

I played baseball in high school…….. HIGH SCHOOL and was given speed by the COACH!
By the way… something to pick you up was NORMAL in baseball, from high school to big league. Babe Ruth… did drugs and drank and caroused.

Have we stripped any of these people of their records and celebrity. NO… we’ve continued to laugh at their stories and enjoy their books and put them up on a pedestal

We crucify certain hero’s, for what ever reason we need at the time. Maybe to make us feel better….I don’t know. Maybe to bring them down to size.

We push these people, idolize them, and pressure them into thinking they need to win at any cost.

Carroll Shelby – Loved, Junior Johnson – Loved, the BABE…well, he was the BABE! Maybe we don’t like Lance Armstrong. I mean, he acts arrogant… so crucify him, right?

If we did this, retroactively, to ALL our hero’s…. we’d be burning ALL of our record books!

He got away with it.. and we cheered in PRIDE for America. HE WAS our hero…

ANY of his competitors, that claim they didn’t cheat, are L

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- PROUD_2B_American
  Posted on January 19, 2013 at 12:45am
  “Are lying” was cut off…
  
  I was TOLD to take this or that, or I wouldn’t get to play.
  
  For anyone that HAS NOT competed. It isn’t always the competitor that makes the decision to cheat. QUIT OFTEN, we’re forced into it. QUITE often, as in MY case, athletes quit. But for that, we’er labeled a quitter.
  
  And you wonder WHY athletes cheat…………………..
  
  Gee, Juice……….. millions of dollars……..your a hero…………
  Stand up for your values……. labeled a loser and quitter………
  
  yeah…..that’s a hard one to figure out….
  
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Bluebonnet
Posted on January 18, 2013 at 11:58pm
Wish there were some way to make all the players of ALL games fess up about doping. Bet you’d find most of them have done it.
Most of those guys would never have the endurance they show unless they’re taking something. But it could be things that are used by most of us; across the counter vitamins, raw honey, things Michelle says we should all eat. Lying isn’t good Lance, but then, look who else lies constantly, all the time.

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wordweaver
Posted on January 18, 2013 at 11:38pm
The biggest question in this is WHY did he want to do the Oprah interview. What was his motivation? We all had already written him off as a liar and cheat. We didn’t need his confession to convince us of anything. Did he think coming clean after being caught counts for anything? It doesn’t, unless sincere repentance comes with it. I’m not sure I see that in him. So, why would he make a big public confession, when doing so may well open him up to a decade or more of lawsuits that could bankrupt him? I just don’t see his motivation in the whole thing. The only good motivation I can see would be to ask forgiveness, but I didn’t see that.

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catwilli
Posted on January 18, 2013 at 11:29pm
Two has beens, that are wanna be’s again.

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lid.smoker
Posted on January 18, 2013 at 11:06pm
He’s not irrelevant. Kids will use him as an example. So what if he’s a disgrace now. He’s a multi-millionaire disgrace.

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crusaderx9
Posted on January 18, 2013 at 10:42pm
hmmm, Oprah with the crack pipe or Armstrong blood packing?…

I would say they both have disgraced themselves before the world and a rational society would reject any further enabling of their celebrity.

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MisterSarcastic
Posted on January 18, 2013 at 10:38pm
….oooOOK.

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DisgustedinUSA
Posted on January 18, 2013 at 10:28pm
I’m SO FED UP with this story already. WHO CARES ABOUT LANCE?? I dont. He blew it, go away little man. You’re DONE.

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- TruthTalker
  Posted on January 18, 2013 at 10:39pm
  So the admitted liar is lying? Who would have guessed it?
  
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matt_c
Posted on January 18, 2013 at 10:15pm
Careful guys! Don’t say he was doping in the 2009 race! He might come after you!

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dealer@678
Posted on January 18, 2013 at 10:09pm
Lance Armstrong is the white obama. They will say anything to get what they want

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BODYBAG
Posted on January 18, 2013 at 10:06pm
Who cares? Let him go have a PJ party with his pal Matthew Mayonnaise

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jp2feminist
Posted on January 18, 2013 at 10:05pm
The man is an admitted liar, so why should we believe anything he has to say? Go away, Lance. You are irrelevant.

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- Welcome Black Carter
  Posted on January 19, 2013 at 9:07am
  According to interveiws of X ‘freinds” He is human garbage. He’s not worthy of another line of print. When reality hits him he will self terminate.
  
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jp2feminist
Posted on January 18, 2013 at 10:03pm
The man is an admitted liar. So why should we believe anything this creep has to say. Go away, Lance. You are irrelevant.

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