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Lance Armstrong Interview
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Armstrong will not divulge what he will tell say in Monday's interview from his home that is to be broadcast Friday AEDT on the Oprah Winfrey Network.
"I'm calm, I'm at ease and ready to speak candidly," he told AP. "I hope we'll talk for a couple of hours."
A person with knowledge of the situation says Armstrong will give a limited confession and apologise - his first public response to the US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) report accusing him of using banned drugs to win the Tour de France.
The interview is not expected to go into great detail about specific allegations in extensive USADA report. In a text to AP on Saturday, Armstrong said: "I told her (Winfrey) to go wherever she wants and I'll answer the questions directly, honestly and candidly. That's all I can say."
Armstrong has spent more than a decade denying he doped to win the Tour de France seven times. A confession would be a stunning reversal after years of public statements, interviews and court battles from Austin to Europe in which he zealously protected his reputation.
Armstrong was stripped of his titles and banned from the sport for life last year after the USADA report accused him of leading a sophisticated and brazen drug program on his US Postal Service teams that included steroids, blood boosters and a range of performance-enhancing drugs.
"His reputation is in crisis," said crisis management expert Mike Paul, president of New York-based, MGP & Associates PR. "Most people don't trust what comes out of his mouth. He has to be truly repentant and humble."
He also has to be careful.
Armstrong is facing legal challenges on several fronts, including a federal whistleblower lawsuit brought by former teammate Floyd Landis, who was stripped of the 2006 Tour title, accusing him of defrauding the Postal Service. The Justice Department has yet to announce whether it will join the case.
The London-based Sunday Times is also suing Armstrong to recover about $US500,000 ($A474,000) it paid him to settle a libel lawsuit, and Dallas-based SCA Promotions has threatened to bring yet another lawsuit against Armstrong to recover more than $US7.5 million ($A7.1 million) that an arbitration panel awarded him as a bonus for winning the Tour de France.
The Sunday Times has taken out an advertisement in the Chicago Tribune with 10 questions they want Oprah Winfrey to ask Armstrong.
Among the questions chief sports writer David Walsh asks are whether Armstrong told doctors in 1996 that he had used EPO, human growth hormone, cortisone, steroids and testosterone, whether he intends to return his prize money, and whether he accepts "lying to the cancer community was the greatest deception of all".
The Sunday Times was one of the few publications to openly query Armstrong's innocence during his career.
Read more: http://www.news.com.au/top-stories/lance-armstrong-claims-he-will-be-candid-in-this-weeks-tv-interview-with-oprah-winfrey/story-e6frfkp9-1226553293271#ixzz2Huu3mAuw
"I'm calm, I'm at ease and ready to speak candidly," he told AP. "I hope we'll talk for a couple of hours."
A person with knowledge of the situation says Armstrong will give a limited confession and apologise - his first public response to the US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) report accusing him of using banned drugs to win the Tour de France.
The interview is not expected to go into great detail about specific allegations in extensive USADA report. In a text to AP on Saturday, Armstrong said: "I told her (Winfrey) to go wherever she wants and I'll answer the questions directly, honestly and candidly. That's all I can say."
Armstrong has spent more than a decade denying he doped to win the Tour de France seven times. A confession would be a stunning reversal after years of public statements, interviews and court battles from Austin to Europe in which he zealously protected his reputation.
Armstrong was stripped of his titles and banned from the sport for life last year after the USADA report accused him of leading a sophisticated and brazen drug program on his US Postal Service teams that included steroids, blood boosters and a range of performance-enhancing drugs.
"His reputation is in crisis," said crisis management expert Mike Paul, president of New York-based, MGP & Associates PR. "Most people don't trust what comes out of his mouth. He has to be truly repentant and humble."
He also has to be careful.
Armstrong is facing legal challenges on several fronts, including a federal whistleblower lawsuit brought by former teammate Floyd Landis, who was stripped of the 2006 Tour title, accusing him of defrauding the Postal Service. The Justice Department has yet to announce whether it will join the case.
The London-based Sunday Times is also suing Armstrong to recover about $US500,000 ($A474,000) it paid him to settle a libel lawsuit, and Dallas-based SCA Promotions has threatened to bring yet another lawsuit against Armstrong to recover more than $US7.5 million ($A7.1 million) that an arbitration panel awarded him as a bonus for winning the Tour de France.
The Sunday Times has taken out an advertisement in the Chicago Tribune with 10 questions they want Oprah Winfrey to ask Armstrong.
Among the questions chief sports writer David Walsh asks are whether Armstrong told doctors in 1996 that he had used EPO, human growth hormone, cortisone, steroids and testosterone, whether he intends to return his prize money, and whether he accepts "lying to the cancer community was the greatest deception of all".
The Sunday Times was one of the few publications to openly query Armstrong's innocence during his career.
Read more: http://www.news.com.au/top-stories/lance-armstrong-claims-he-will-be-candid-in-this-weeks-tv-interview-with-oprah-winfrey/story-e6frfkp9-1226553293271#ixzz2Huu3mAuw
Comments
Good ol' USA.............................(no proceeds of crime laws)
Sounds like Lance will apologise to team mates, fans, etc, for letting everybody down & doing the wrong things in the past with no specifics.
Fox said they are going to have 3 Discovery channels televising the Oprah show live on Friday morning
3:-O <):)
Hoping he has a full confession so everyone can move on from the biggest scam in sport the bullying and intimidation of team members really was a step too far for me to ever respect or understand him.
Marion Jones served jail time not for doping but for perjury.
I think he was (somehow) under oath when the insurance company interviewed him wrt the TdF win bonuses?
More than 7 years for his last tour win as well
A report I saw in the US press this morning says the statute has passed for "one case" of perjury but was unclear if there are any other depositions/testimony more recent.
WTF..........................It was an APPEARANCE FEE.
He APPEARED !!!
You got the benefits you paid for.
Get on with running your busted arse state and stop wasting my time.
3:-O <):)
Read more: http://www.oprah.com/own-oprahs-next-chapter/Lance-Armstrong-on-Oprahs-Next-Chapter#ixzz2I7vtCjQl
Just hope it's not a fluffy interview and the big hard questions are asked and answered, would have to be the most anticipated interview i can remember and be the interview EVERY journalist would have wanted to do.
3:-O <):)
Let see the SA premier give money back to all the fans who purchased tickets but it will never happen, what a f%^&* w^&**(
Biggest cheat in sporting history !!!
http://www.oprah.com/own_tv/onc/lance-armstrong-one.html
Yes, Yes, Yes, Yes, Yes.......................
End of interview I reckon.
its on now.