The disgraced cycling superstar came clean about his years-long campaign of deception in an interview with Oprah Winfrey that was taped yesterday and will air Thursday night, sources said.
This man doped his way to 7 Tour De France wins, armstrong’s long-overdue confession came three months after he was stripped of his treasured Tour titles and banned from cycling for life by anti-doping officials, who refused to cave in to his vicious demonization of anyone who suggested he took performance enhancers.
Sources are saying, Armstrong admitted to Oprah that he has been doping since the 1990's this was during his pre-cancer stage. Before the sit-down, Armstrong traveled to the Austin offices of his Livestrong cancer charity to deliver a face-to-face mea culpa to about 100 staffers.
“I’m sorry,” a choked-up Armstrong told workers, some of whom wept.
Surrounded by 10 friends and advisers, the 41-year-old cancer survivor copped to cheating during an emotional interview with the talk-show doyenne in an Austin, Texas, hotel.
The edited, 90-minute-long interview airs 9 p.m. Thursday on Winfrey’s network, OWN.
In a full-page ad in Winfrey’s hometown paper, the Chicago Tribune, Sunday Times writer David Walsh, who probed Armstrong’s cheating, encouraging her to ask the cyclist 10 questions, including: “Do you accept your lying to the cancer community was the greatest deception of all?”
The cyclist is in talks to repay some of the millions in money he received though his former team’s sponsor, the US Postal Service, CBS News reported. Armstrong has an estimated net worth of $125 million.
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