Offical 2013 Lance Armstrong/Oprah Winfrey Interview Discussion Thread

Interesting tweet from Daniel Coyle:

DanielCoyle ‏@DanielCoyle

I’m hearing LA’s brain trust is *seriously* concerned about the answers LA gave to a couple of Oprah’s questions

That e mail may not be lengthy, but since he had to send out thousands of similar ones, it is reasonable. EPO doesn't make you a faster typist.

One thing that comes into my mind is I'm pleasantly surprised that so many people are now coming out and ripping Lance, but it kind of reminds me like really popular songs on the Internet.

When a song is popular, I hear it a million times but the time it's actually #1 it seems so way after the fact. Like for me, Lance as a cheater was big this summer. But for the public, it's just now.

It's amazing how the sponsors dropping him this summer was a big tipping point and then even now - his oprah interview - is even a bigger one. I guess now it's like 100% official.

Screw Lance and that sob story. I'll be running while it's shown.

i wouldn't be surprised if that email was ghostwritten by his publicist.

Hey Rojo, the cool kids who bothered to do the research and read the right books knew Lance was a fraud in 2004/2005, the reeeeeally cool kids knew in 1999. It's like America as a whole is 5 years behind Europe on the truth of the story.

is there online stream anywhere?

TheYoungTurks- 'CHEATER Lance Armstrong Confesses to Oprah'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f28Ga45s9zo

ftrddf wrote:

Hey Rojo, the cool kids who bothered to do the research and read the right books knew Lance was a fraud in 2004/2005, the reeeeeally cool kids knew in 1999. It's like America as a whole is 5 years behind Europe on the truth of the story.

I remember when he won the Tour for I think the fifth time and all the news stations here in the US were saying that the doping investigations were happening only because they didn't like an American winning the tour. It kinda makes me wonder if Lance had a PR guy feeding that idea to the media.

Imagine the balls it took to write this all the way back in 1999, knowing the wave of positivity surrounding the fairytale cancer saviour. Incredible.

http://www.independent.ie/sport/reserving-the-right-to-applaud-403806.html

rojo wrote:

One thing that comes into my mind is I'm pleasantly surprised that so many people are now coming out and ripping Lance, but it kind of reminds me like really popular songs on the Internet.

When a song is popular, I hear it a million times but the time it's actually #1 it seems so way after the fact. Like for me, Lance as a cheater was big this summer. But for the public, it's just now.

It's amazing how the sponsors dropping him this summer was a big tipping point and then even now - his oprah interview - is even a bigger one. I guess now it's like 100% official.

It's no surprise that a 9 YEAR OLD GIRL has more wisdom than you or your brother:

WTF does that mean? Please elaborate A Duck.

Can anyone provide a live stream of the interview? I don't have cable.

query wrote:

WTF does that mean? Please elaborate A Duck.

Read the freaking link you lazy sod, it is brilliant!

Let's face it this thread won't be a discussion it will be a hate fest.

A discussion would be, calm and logical, where to go from here with making amends, where to go from here with sport reform etc.

Rojo has stated he's enjoying journalist hating on Lance...as he is too.

No, not at all. Your 3 posts about this link were 3 too many you duckhole. Why does a little girl who wants Lance to sit down and talk about his lies have anything to do with Rojo? You always take some wacky position. That link was a puff piece waste of time.

ftrddf wrote:

Hey Rojo, the cool kids who bothered to do the research and read the right books knew Lance was a fraud in 2004/2005, the reeeeeally cool kids knew in 1999. It's like America as a whole is 5 years behind Europe on the truth of the story.

Ding, ding, ding.

I was in Paris during the 89 Tour d France. Any Frenchman could tell you cycling was both crooked and doped.

Josh Hamilton's Addiction wrote:

Can anyone provide a live stream of the interview? I don't have cable.

oprah dot com. good grief guys