AP Reports Lance Armstrong admits to doping during Oprah interview

Level playing field; best man won.

^ FIRST!

Just like Lance, and don’t be jelly. He did it for the Horde.

FOR THE HORDE!

Every comment thread on Lance have a guy that said he is innocent… So I figure I play that role once..

THEY MAD HIM DO IT, THEY MADE HIM CONFESSED……He’s been tested hundreds of time, and he had always been clean….

GBYE LOSER!!!!

In that era everybody in top 20 in major 2 or 3 weeks races was doped, so it was even for all and nobody considered himself as a cheater.
I am/have been always less fan of Armstrong’s for his “pleasant” personality (me, me, me and then me some more)
Thumbs up for confessing, it took guts!!
Peace

Lance Armstrong is innocent!

@jorge, I agree with you, in a sport that as always used drugs of some kind, from the first races to today, to me Mr. Armstrong remains a true cyclist and a great one.
I like cycling, I don’t like this kind of cycling, where everybody knows about doping but everyone pretend to not know about it, at all levels of organization and media.

First I am not in denial that he doped etc. but here are my Qs to the folks who just love to tear LA down:
1) Why are you/Mr Walsh not going after other dopers with such determination? I mean there are many others that dope and that have won many events/championships in many other sports that are suspisious and or know to have done stuff?
2) Why are folks that are so PURE in their efforts to stamp out doping not asking for folks such as Riis to lose his TdF title? He admitted it…or is it if I only win 1 TdF then admit I doped (and dont get caught before hand) that I can keep the title? That jsut doesnt make sense….why not go hardcore….
3)What about the GDR/DDR we still have records on the books in many sports and the Gold medals have not been stripped???? We know they doped….where is Mr Walsh as a pure sports lover/journalist in cleaning the sport?
4) Is it mainly b/c LA was American and invaded a Euro Sport? And he was an ass? But look if there hadn’t been a LA the TdF would be smaller today, American sponsors and the American media etc made it bigger made ohter folks watch it, that never watched the TdF b4….b/c he beat cancer we watched….now that does not excuse his actions, but sometimes there is the bad that comes with the good….
5) Would the focus on doping be this big if there hadn’t been An American that beat the odds and beat not only cancer but the others, of whom many also doped? Does the regular CNN/American and or Euro that hates Americans care/know that Pantani doped and then committed suicide!?! B/C he couldn’t handle being beat by an ignorant ass American that had one nut!?!
My opinion is NO we would not be making this amount of fuss about ANY other CYCLIST, b/c they would not be American and the world would not care

So, tell your kids it’s ok to do drugs as long as other kids are doing it. What a bunch of moorons. Sheesh!

Dope or no dope – he is still a dick for the way he treated people… I hope Oprah asked, how does it feel to be such a dick to people? But the guy could stomp pedals all day, and in a way he gave me the thing I love most…

He did it for the WHORED!
I’d feel slightly better if he returns all of the money plus the time I spent cheering for him. Which wasn’t much. Watching cycling is boring. Anyone wanna buy a signed Lance poster?

Cale.

I think you need to get the “because he’s American” chip off your shoulder.
So you’re saying they can only go after lance if they go after everyone else. So if they go after someone else you’ll say they have to go after yet someone else. They have to start somehwere. Lance is the highest profile and he was the biggest bully against anyone who dared try and speak out about it.

Did Riis bully anyone and ruin their careers after they spoke out about him?
Did Riis pay off the UCI to make a test result disappear?
Did Riis sue people for slander who exposed his doping.

I was one of the last to come to terms with what lance did and still a few weeks ago hoped he would come out fighting rather than owning up, I was hoping he was biding his time.

After reading all the details, how he had job offers taken away, how he branded them as crazy, how he treated Simeoni & Bassons, How he targeted those who spoke out. He thought he was invincible. Turns out he was nothing but a thug leading a cycling team.

Answer me this please? Does it make him innocent because someone had a goal/obsession of proving he doped? Nope is doesn’t. He’s just admitted that Walsh was right, right from the start.

Lance is guilty whether he is American, or French or any other nationality.

I feel bad for all the junior road cyclists and their families. Confusing times!
Every sport is filled with liars and cheats, so its a bummer to hear the cycling outsiders say how bad cycling is. Glad he was never my hero! Hopefully John Elway is never revealed to be a doper.

I’ve never been a fan of his, ever.

@Charlie Best – Not sure the coke anecdote holds up, but I agree. They’re professionals. They assume the risk for the payday and to provide us with exciting racing. Give them every physical advantage possible. The Olympics were SUPPOSED to be for amateur athletes once upon a time, but once state put pressure to allow professionals to compete to tilt the playing field back in their favor.

Seriously, let the professionals all dope all they want, and don’t weep for them when they fail. And keep amateur sports clean. That’s the only reasonable solution that provides excitement for the masses and protects the up and coming athletes in the sport who want to compete on a level field.

It must suck only having that one puny steroid ball.

I just got back from a great ride!!

…and Lance had to talk to Oprah?

who seriously cares? test 2nd an 3rd place and i be they doped too. Lance sucks, all pro sports suck… and cheat

There must be a change in the structure and organization of Pro Cycling for any difference to be made. Americans look at the pro tour and cycling it’s self and see an absolutely foreign animal. Why do the names of the teams change every year? How do the points work? What are the rest of the riders doing if only a few have any chance of winning? What other sports do you know of where the primary job of the commentary is to explain how the game is played? Phil Liggett must be bored to tears. LA cheated, just like everyone else, but the problem is systemic.The UCI needs to clean house. Reliable sponsorship must be secured resulting in Franchise Teams. Ordinary Europeans already own and support many of their favorite football teams, why can this not happen in cycling? I believe only at this point when the riders are truly accountable only to their fans can the sport emerge from the shadow that has been cast on it since Garin.