Lance Armstrong gets Pissed Off in radio interview! Off The Ball Interview on Newstalk

Off The Ball
Fri, 07 October 2016

[@OffTheBall]

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[@georgiecasey]

love the 9 second pause at 12:10!

[@johnkelleher1877]

Fantastic interview.

[@sickboy3636]

Gosh, came across like a scorned little bitch in this interview. I'm not even a Lance Armstrong fan....but what self important jack off schmuck. Lance carried himself with a huge amount of class considering.

[@su3316]

Are you for real? You treat this man just as bad as any dick! How do you justify that?

[@shane-irish]

Really

[@jbratt]

This is a bit tougher than the Oprah interview.

[@gdkopinionator4356]

A person who never developed a sense of empathy is not going to be able to fundamentally change. We fuel people like this when we give them attention and praise. Sociopaths should not have access to these things. Unfortunately, popular culture is attracted the characteristics of the sociopath. An entire industry (reality tv) has been developed out of this. It has even given birth to a presidential candidate! What the average person considers to be cruel or inhumane, is not even noticed by an individual like Lance Armstrong. A person bleeding on the side of the road means nothing. A reputation and livelihood destroyed means nothing. Such individuals are genuinely dangerous, and should never be given access to broadcast their amorality.

[@ricksanchez243]

GDK Opinionator - you are EXACTLY correct! One of the hardest lessons I had to learn in life is that Sociopath's can not change! Overall this was a good interview, Lance was not enjoying these questions!

[@ricksanchez243]

VeganTruther - Looks like you are in denial and unable to accept the truth. Your argument is a complete fallacy, do you also support proven child rapist with the same logic? Did you work with the child rapist? Did you live with him? According to your logic, even though a guy raped children we should assume he is a decent human being because we didn't work/live with him? See how stupid this type of logic is? What Lance did is not disputed and we have enough public footage and transcripts that one can use to prove with out a reasonable doubt that he exhibits anti-social personality disorder (ie sociopath). We know he cheated, we know he told many lies, we know he destroyed numerous lives, we know he went after people with lawsuits and false claims if they dared to speak the truth, all for his own personal gain. We can also see that after he finally admitted to cheating, he has continued to push numerous lies again for his own personal gain. For example the notion that his doping created a level playing field is blatantly false. IF everyone was clean Lance was not a top 10 rider and he is smart enough to know this. Actions speak louder than words. Although Lance is "sorry" about destroying numerous people, not only with defamation and lies but by attacking their business and attacking them financially. Yet when asked if Lance ever considered any type of financial restitution his true nature comes out. He is sorry but not enough to pay anyone a nickle for the money they lost in relation to his actions. Lance is probably one of the clearest most textbook cases of anti-social personality disorder in existence because we have so much footage to work from which shows all the required traits for ASPD. In most cases, even those people you live with and work with it is MUCH more difficult to prove because you have a lack of substantiated evidence. Find a new hero or at least own up and accept that your hero is a garbage human being that doesn't give a shit about anyone but himself. He was a better cheat/doper/liar than anyone else of his time, but I'm at a loss to why those are admirable traits...

[@johndef5075]

Rick Sanchez amen.

[@Julie-7605]

Also, questioning a sociopath is useless because they lie. They have absolutely no problem with it. I think he enjoys lying too, because of the contempt he feels for anyone who doesn't praise for him.

[@ybet1000]

Came back from cancer...won the TdF 7 times.. 7...... against a 100+ other dopers... So he has a take no prisoners attitude... would probably ride over you if you got in his way of victory..... but if we wish to go where no one has gone before... say to mars.... for example... Lance on the team and we might just get there.... Mankind needs Lance Armstrongs.. no matter what you personally think of the guy... dope or no dope...he was the best... 7 times in a row

[@nialllavery6960]

He definitely doesn't get angry you need to stop the click bate mate

[@Julie-7605]

When confronted with sharp questions he resorts to obfuscation. He insults the intelligence of the interviewer. He act surprised, bewildered and outraged. It's all in an effort to destabilize the questioner and get them to doubt themselves. The goal is to dodge the question.

[@stealthcat100]

Haha your as delusional as the interviewer . Lol @ sharp questions . The interviewer is totally lost and a dodgy bottom shelf amateur cheap radio host . How he landed Lance Armstrong on this show god knows . Super cringe .

[@looneybergonzi]

This sounds awkward right from the start. The interviewer sounds like he's trying to contain his glee at having Lance on the radio and Lance sounds guarded from the start like he's thinking 'This was a big mistake. What is this guy's accent?'.

[@ericmurrihy8461]

looneybergonzi Irish radio top class interviewer

[@x-raymind7778]

His accent is ball licker of the Walsh/Kimmage area

[@AbleAnderson]

Awesome interview

[@IrishGary1]

amazing radio

[@chriszzw30]

Haha funny but the interviewer is totally trolling him so badly

[@erudzitis84]

Unbelievably proximate to the implausability came Ger Gilroy with these tenasious gloriously stinging questions. Bravo.

[@SolicitorRandolph]

If you watch his body language breakdown video of his deposition, you will notice when he is lying to a yes/no question, he always uses clarifying responses such as "absolutely not" or "100% percent" When the interviewer asks him about using a motor or if he ever thought about using a motor, Lance responds with "absolutely not", he uses it twice in response to this question. Now it's hard to determine because we can't see Lance in this interview, he's just talking on the phone. This is an interesting observation when you go back and watch the stages he absolutely dominated people on (Sestriere '99, Alpe d'Huez '01 and Luz Ardiden '03) he is capable of blowing people away and it looks effortless. This isn't proof he had a motor, not by any means. I'm just making the comparison visually how much more impressive he was when he wanted to turn it on against his competition. Maybe this is just the result of a superior training and doping regimen, or maybe it's something else too. We'll never know.

[@thepurselmer1382]

A case study in complete and utter sociopathy. Fascinating.

[@jasboehlke]

I did not hear him getting pissed, frustrated for certain, but if you listen to his interviews, you know when he gets pissed . And the interviewer was pushing and prodding at every turn for a response.

[@TheMrbc74]

Oh he was pissed alright, he just hangs up at the end when the interviewer says bye😂

[@shannonbevans3710]

Not to defend Lance Armstrong, but no apology would ever be enough for Catholic Ireland.

[@colinmontgomery1956]

...what?! What is that even supposed to mean? Take your bigotry elsewhere.

[@PInk77W1]

He still has his 7 jerseys on display at his house. So he ain’t sorry

[@ericvanbockern2550]

You spun it. He stayed cool and got familiar. Radio host antagonized him with empty content; his own agenda. It doesn't work that way Off The Ball.

[@sokirish]

Great interview. Love the bit about the using motors as a parallel to cheat if you were using drugs too! Not so sure he is happy about the upcoming welcome in Dublin now!!

[@NC-ck5oj]

He pulled out at the last minute

[@thomasjacquet3449]

He showed his true face, that is great. Hope this guy will finish in jail, never talking to other people again. Great interview, for confronting Lance with his true face, the BAD person he is, the deceiver, the fraud, the lying creature he is. May be he should ask his mom, about how he grew up ;) The things that he did, I believe there is more than we think. You cannot do this unless you are messed up, mentally speaking. It is not a problem if people do not see it, it is just facts: the man is crazy and I thank myself for letting me see what he really is :) :) :)... a lying child.

[@NC-ck5oj]

Armstrong is hated by almost everyone in Ireland. He tried to ruin 3 brave moral people who wouldnt accept a cheat and called his bullshit

[@thomasjacquet3449]

I am not surprised...

[@davidoffon1]

He tried to buy a pint in Cork after climbing off and they gave him half a litre of blood to get the party going!!

[@rayerscarpensael2300]

Lance gave us 7 awesome TDF experiences. He was the absolute best among the all doped peloton. Fuck all the haters.

[@element4element4]

The problem is that even if the assumption that everybody was doped is correct, not all had the doping program that the biggest teams had. And most importantly, doping does not give everybody an equal amount of benefits. Some people improve mildly using doping, while others improve dramatically. The same peloton with everybody doped vs nobody doped, might have very different set of winners. It's not at all clear that Lance would've done as well in an all undoped peloton. At the end of the day, doping is not allowed and the problem is not just Lance Armstrong but an issue with the whole sport. Since Lance became the biggest and earned to many millions from the sport, he has a responsibility to come out and lay all cards on the table. As a mean of improving the sport. He is rightfully criticised for spending years ruining other peoples lives, and still till now very reluctant to be open about how it all worked.

[@rayerscarpensael2300]

So you think he was still on dope while winning his Ironman in Hawaii and MTB races years after the TDF? Or on his last TDF participation on the Contador team heavily suspected and checked night and day?

[@element4element4]

@@rayerscarpensael2300 I don't know. He was tested thousands of times over many many years and never got caught. While heavily doped. I don't know whether he was doped during those races, but I can't see any argument against it.

[@CFCMahomet]

Agreed.

[@bibobooboo6721]

"give money to help others after i cheated so hard for it? are you out of your mind? Now buy my bracelet please"

[@sparkyhughes131]

Gilroy is brilliant

[@Arty11]

People in cycling suspected Lance from his recovery after cancer. I was told by a masseuse who’s husband worked on the GB team a few years before he got caught.

[@ambientblue-eyedmonkey8849]

Better say nothing than I know a person who knows a person who's wife's brother knew a guy who said.....

[@flonomcflooneyloo7573]

Just to be clear one would not use a motor to cheat ON a climb, they'd use it just before the climb to give them just enough rest so they're not on the rivet like everyone else. Imagine in a race if you could totally rest on a small run up to the climb and then start the climb fresh. You wouldn't need 30 min of 40-50 watts you'd only need 2-3 minutes of 'rest'. IMO.

[@davidpower7515]

when you tell the truth you cant be caught out on a lie! Armstrong fails here big time

[@Onyxxxxx1]

Excellent interview. Still one arrogant sod is Armstrong

[@portrunner6931]

Well I get you wanna do a hard questions interview with Lance Armstrong but for it be effective you need to have genuine conversation and be on point and not throw insults around and just go to the next thing you find is also troubeling in your mind. It's tough and considering how Armstrong handled himself, how he stayed on point made him the clear cut winner.

[@MrFungi69]

interview enhancing drugs? tour de benzo

[@fastharri]

They’re not insults if they’re true and a genuine question many want answering.

[@zerg9523]

Anyone that got in lances way he sued? Damn his bike really just needed a bell...

[@briang1561]

Interviewer is poking the bear.

[@bondorbogdan6869]

Great interview man!!! Considering his style of bullying people that accused him of doping, I can easily believe he DID use a motor from how he reacted to the question! Sorry Lance, but you ARE the least believable person on Earth, and still have an attitude. Shame on you

[@v.p.mikepence1399]

19:57 motor for your bike lol. The interviewer is too much lol

[@krakhour2]

What gets me is you go to the doctor he gives you a drug that can make you very sick that doesnt even relate to the problem you are having just to push drugs for the drug company and the guy wont even try to fix what is really wrong with you and no body says anything to these guys either and most of the time they praise them

[@danieldefeudis8209]

Lance used a motor and it's the first time someone asked him about it.

[@And-rc9yy]

Yeah, he used a motor, a big powerful human one. Sure it was pumped with some high octane EPO, but so were most of the guys in that era. I do truly believe that if given the choice no athlete would want to take drugs to cheat, but if it means you're on a level playing field with the other 80% of the field then you can see why people would.

[@mflaherty8880]

2M bucks is a lot of money to make a bike motor. Plus, Hungarian inventor guy is a felon. Plus Tyler says no evidence of a motor on team Postal. I don’t think there was a motor in 1999.

[@CFCMahomet]

A motor… really a silly theory.

[@annainsaudi218]

He's so quick to get abusive, even when he's trying to weasel his way back into favour. I can only imagine how nasty he was in private. I love Betsy Andreu, straight talking and honest.

[@ybet1000]

Hang on a sec... Wasn't she making public.... a conversation he had between himself and his doctors? Where I come from... I hear nothing... cause it's doctor/patient confidentiality.... don;t you feel that making that public is unforgivable?.. imagine me telling everyone about what you talk to your doctor about or your wife or your parents etc..where I come from... you don;t hear it .. even of you do

[@enoughalready8088]

@@ybet1000 hang on a sec, didn’t she testify to that if private initially and then he called her a liar? Yes, he did and he said some rotten things about Greg LeMonde. Horrendous things! She made her allegation in private and after he labelled her a liar, then her allegations went public. I don’t give a sh1t if he was doping, most of them were but the way he treated people? He can burn in hell for that

[@ybet1000]

@@enoughalready8088 he was talking to his doctors... and was trusting enough not to,kiick them out of the room..she snitched later cause she was angry at him... for dropping her boyfriend from the team cause he wouldn;t juice up...his team his rules right? they were all doping...nearly everyone in the race..,. ==> ...she is scum.. you understand that? .... why? read my first post

[@korpulian]

He ruined the 10 years of my life. Where's the apology?

[@celynjones4958]

Classic tendencies of a psycho, that was past me but not the 'me' now.

[@shane-irish]

I remember this lol bully and cheat going mad

[@paramhansayogananda3134]

Very good interview, with very precise questions . I would have add these: 1) Wouldn't it be possible to say, unlike LA, that not every cyclist was (equally) doped, but that LA was just the best at doping, organizing doping, getting the best products, the best doctor (Ferrari), the best info on how to avoid being caught? And wouldn't this destroy LA's theory that cycling was a level playing field and LA was the best (which I personally doubt) ? 2) Would it be possible, in order to understand the ramification and the scale of the fraud, to try and understand (getting an explanation seems impossible from LA) how on earth was the initial investigation by the Feds dropped in early 2012 and the news announced the day of the Super Bowl XLVI on February 2012 ? What kind of political support and pressure can manage to derail and shut down a (100% justified) Feds investigation ? 3) Are you still maintaining your 2009/2010 comeback was clean ? Seriously ? 4) My belief is that a bank robber should pay back any single penny he stole before getting off the hook. I would be interested to know how much of the cca 100 million bucks LA made from cheating has been paid back so far ?

[@kevinoconnor1123]

What about the other guys who cheated and earned prize money ? He wasn't the only one earning cos he won...

[@CFCMahomet]

Lance wasn’t the best doper, he was the best of those who doped. Ullrich doped at a similar level, and we know that the teams coached by Bjarne Riis doped at a very high level.

[@Sills71]

Hincapie (and no one else) should receive any credit for the 7 years Lance did not win the TdF.

[@russellpolsgrove3987]

Sills71 george is just as guilty of these deeds. as a yes man to LA and a silent partner. Floyd and Tyler spilled the beans while GH keeps silent while counting his money.

[@flonomcflooneyloo7573]

I now think that the reason he came out to Oprah was as a 'limited hangout', IOW to confess to chemical doping and hide his mechanical doping.

[@jorgeeduardozamoraacosta8627]

To me is clear that chemical doping is different than mechanical doping. With the traditional doping the athlete must have to train and do the same thing that would do without doping. In fact, if anyone of us gets into a doping program, and then go to the TDF, at the first stage is very probably to be eliminated. But, with an engine on the bike, there's no effort in the athlete, is just to push a button and then move like in a motorcycle. With and engine everyone of us will be able to win a stage on a high profile competition, without training and any talent at all for the sport. I want to be clear, both ways of doping are cheating, it's just that, in my point of view, there are clearly different.

[@_systemd]

you can take peds to get 10% extra power into pedals over time, or you can get a motor (not engine) giving you 10% of power extra for certain amount of time. Those things must be small, quiet etc. Nobody rides 200km race with 1500W electric motor in their frame while resting feet on pedals. you can see the ebikes producing 250-400W of power, having huge batteries, weighing double of regular bikes.

[@mod69]

Newstalk regurgitates it news from CNN thread carefully

[@kungallu2133]

The fastest tour ever runned was 2022. Tell me how that is possible if they are not using PEDS, they al do so dont set other standards for Lance

[@Sills71]

Lance- I am sure that Betsy will accept your apology if you simply admit that she was telling the truth about the hospital room... How about it Lance?

[@kiely4561]

i suspect admitting that would open an whole different can of worms from a legal standpoint which Lance has no intention of doing

[@richardgaines9450]

it is clear he remembers the hospital room............just lying through his teeth........and restitution to lemond is in order lance..........

[@bf2450]

His friends ratted on him, what did they expect to happen?

[@Sills71]

"I am not here to bullshit you".... "I have never not answered a question" LMAO... Lance has a relationship with the truth that is about the same as the relationship Jenna Jameson had with virginity. Anyone that listens to one word that Armstrong spits out is stupid beyond repair. He has never and will never tell the truth.

[@bibobooboo6721]

19:55 the usual laugh before a lie He confess steroids to hide the motor. The defence is "others cheat too" but there is no defence for a motor in the bike. Average rider.

[@joserubero7002]

Bibo Booboo leave him alone! You is a big nasty bully,the neighborhood bully I bet.😂

[@CFCMahomet]

The motor stuff is just ludicrous

[@HarborEdwin]

Click bait...he never gets 'pissed off' in the interview.

[@flonomcflooneyloo7573]

Imagine if it came out that he or one of his domestiques used moto-doping. I think that is so horrendous that I don't think even HE could show his face if it was proved he did that. Legend is that after one or more TdF he actually destroyed his bike. IDK that sounds a bit too far out there. But the Hungarian guy did create this in 1999-2000. The guy kind of asks the wrong question. He says 'did Farrari offer you' but maybe someone else offered him and he used it on 'training rides' but then maybe once had someone put it on a racing bike for a test on a real race somewhere sometime.

[@mflaherty8880]

Flono McFlooneyloo for an engineer, 2M bucks is way too much money to make a bike motor. I don’t believe the Hungarian dude.

[@CFCMahomet]

I don’t think that Lance sounds “pissed off”. I do think that he is frustrated that the interviewer is more invested in trying to pin him down rather than actually having a real conversation.

[@TexasWahoo_]

Exactly. I don't have much respect for Lance, largely because he's a narcissistic bully, but this is just a bush league interview. In this case, the interviewer tried to be a bully but he lacks the ability to accomplish what he attempted. Oddly enough, Lance was the classier party in this conversation.

[@jaredhembrow8910]

I still love lance his 7 wins were awesome and wouldn't been as good without doping

[@richardgaines9450]

when he finished 36th in 1995, he was clean.........."top 30 at best" said lemond about a clean lance.........the point is lance never would have come close without doping......

[@ricksanchez243]

Richard Gaines - Lance was doping in 1995 but not for the length of time or the extent that he would in later years. Remember he became sick and admitted to a past of doping in the hospital room which took place in 1996. Greg LeMond on the other hand in his very first TDF at the same age as Lance placed 3rd! Jared Hembrow "I still love lance his 0 wins were awesome and wouldn't been as good without doping"

[@wesleymoore2548]

@@richardgaines9450 even in 1995 he wasn't clean. Let's not be naive, how do you think he won the World Championships???

[@cecilbuddy7472]

agree

[@rollinrat4850]

Christy Dolan Greg Lemond was beating experienced pros as an amateur! On his 1st trip to Europe as an amateur he won almost every race he entered.

[@Jamko1970]

Good interview but the Fraud doesn't get pissed off. Because everything was true. The Pissed Off in the title is CLICK BAIT.

[@ivanboesky1520]

Dopestrong

[@GregJ1]

Were you offered a motor? What a world class Goofball, Armstrong handled him very well and with a lot of restraint, time to move on everyone all this so-called “suffering” by everyone is RIDICULOUS!! Doping was and is a reality of sports, because all the salivating fans want to be entertained. So cheer up and get a life, fact is most of us will never work as hard or want to make the sacrIfices needed to be as successful as LA was. Truth hurts.

[@Sobchak2]

G J How about the many Christophe Bessons who had no career in cycling because wanted to be honest and follow the rules? And had their lives ruined because LA turned everybody against them? LA's late fake apologies did not fix the damage he made to all these people, and that's just a shame.

[@derryboyo]

Asking a cheat has he ever cheated using a motor? Silly interviewer. LA would of killed his granny if he thought it would make him win the TDF.

[@tmac8892]

Still lying

[@bhuvidya]

I'm no apologist for Lance, but this interviewer annoyed me. I think it was the complete lack of subtlety. You catch flies with honey.

[@debbieroe2209]

Revisionist history by interviewer. Bottom line --- i stillknow who had their feet on the pedals

[@nzrdb6]

Let Armstrong move on with his life and end the witch hunt. I found this interviewer distasteful. Armstrong's doing what he can to make things right with the people he hurt and like Mike Tyson, he's turning into something of a decent chap. With age comes wisdom. I think he still has a lot to offer sport and I look forward to him doing amazing things with the rest of his life. I'd like to see him being allowed to compete in non-pro events again, mentoring young cyclists and keeping them away from the temptations he succumbed to. Who better would be able to tell that story to up and coming cyclists?

[@johndef5075]

alex campbell I dont want my kid around a sociopath. This guy is scary. Like Trump.

[@eximusic]

A long list of gotcha questions with no acceptance of any of the answers, what's the point? You can do a scathing monologue without the interview charade. Being in the competitive cycling community, we all knew Lance was doping back in 2000 at the latest. Lance started doping early in his international career just to compete in a sport that was already steeped in dope. And then he started a doping program that was more methodical than the European teams, as he approached every other aspect of his training. He was a dick to many journalists, competitors in the peloton, and ex-teammates/employees. So he was better at it and kind of dick as opposed to the other convicted dopers - Virenque, Zulle, Ullrich, Pantani, Contador, Millar, Heras, Basso, Landis, and Hamilton (to name a few). Although the last two love to do interviews, you should interview the rest (except Pantani - RIP). Lance's big crime was doping AND winning seven TDF titles (on a completely level playing field). Some of above convicted dopers continued racing, Contador winning 2 TDFs, after their suspension was up. And racing against Froome and Wiggins. And good thing testing hadn't advanced as much while Indurain was racing, that would be another 5 titles stripped from the history books. Riis confessed on his own, with a little help from his ex-teammates. And with the record times set on TDF stages during the doping period of Armstrong, those times haven't come down at all in recent years. Interview Froome if you want to be on the cutting edge of doping. The attention given to Armstrong is mostly justified because he was a dick to a lot of people. But he wasn't unique as a doper. 1998 TDF started the downfall, which Armstrong wasn't in.

[@robsthedon]

This interviewer has no idea.

[@jimmyallen2008]

au contraire, he has all the knowledge :-)

[@leerobinson732]

The use of Lance Armstrong to further a journalists career is just another journalist filling airtime. No other professional cyclist that has been caught doping has had anywhere near the media attention compared to Lance Armstrong. What the public don't like to hear is corporate companies want athletes to promote their products and want athletes to be consistently successful. Doping is driven by corporate companies who don't be want to take responsibility for their employees which professional athletes are. Also the uci were paid off by Us postal service team to ignore Lance's positive test for testosterone. So the uci is also responsible for allowing Lance and his team to use performance enhancing drugs.

[@dumbleduke4225]

I think he conducted himself well in this interview. Remember this was so many years ago now imagine how much self restraint it takes to not get triggered by these questions when he was riding in an era when most were doping. There’s not much difference now with these TUEs just another form of cheating.

[@theboybrand]

he is still so evasive and vague. so unlikeable. good interview though.

[@john9291]

27:31 another lie

[@MrSteveblue824]

This interviewer is intentionally trying to rattle Lance’s cage with his antagonistic tongue. It is obvious to me that he’s trying to provoke him to lose his cool by seeking frayed answers from Lance as he repeats cantankerous questions that Lance already answered. His language is very slanted as well: -“The joy you must have felt with a kindred spirit in Dr. Ferrari...” -Repeatedly questioning him about cheating with a motor in his bike. I mean, c’mon! LMAO! -Indirectly directing Lance to pay compensation to others aside from apologizing. -Then basically declaring that his sources (not revealed) told him Lance was lying as he didn’t apologize to some. -“Guys say you were a psychopath....do you recognize yourself there?” Look, yes Lance was a doper but all of the top Tour riders were also dopers in his era. The 7 consecutive Tour de France races that were stripped from him have no 2nd place finishers who were given those victories. Why? Because those riders were all recognized dopers as well! Yet, Lance virtually bears the brunt of all attacks from doping. The entire history of the Tour de France is rife with cheating! I believe that a majority of the past winners were doing some type of performance enhancing that was not detected at the time. Even in recent history, a rider like Wiggins is taking drugs for asthma that were steroids on the eve of the Tour which dramatically improved his performance??? Really??? If you are that ill, you shouldn’t be riding!....and he’s addressed as “Sir Bradley???” Lol If you ask all the other top riders who also doped, they themselves gave gone on record to say that Lance was the winner for those 7 years!

[@maxanderson1524]

We don’t all hate lance just because he doped, because like you mentioned, everyone did. But lance was certainly the biggest bully and ruined the most lifes, which is why he can be so hated.

[@MrSteveblue824]

Fair enough. I’ll admit he attacked anyone who tried to speak against him as hard as he attacked his competition on the bike....and he did cause harm to them... in some cases even to their livelihood.That was disgraceful. However, no bike rider has ever been more vilified for doping than Armstrong-even though there have been scores of other top riders, including Tour champions from all over the world, who doped and have not faced nowhere the degree of persecution that he has faced and will always face in the future. The top Tour riders of his era, in retrospect, have stated that they believed 90% were also doping. I’m not justifying it, I’m just trying to put a context to it. Let’s face it, Armstrong didn’t invent doping as it was in the sport long before he arrived. Maybe, in his mind, he felt he was creating a level playing field by doing it as well.

[@maxanderson1524]

The two reasons lance is often singled out is 1, he was so popular that he was the figurehead. He liked the popularity, and one of the risks of that is taking a harder fall. The other is that he was the most successful cyclist of that generation. If you watch American football, it’s similar to the patriots. Lots of NFL teams have had scandals, but no one really cares because that scandal didn’t lead to trophies. The pats have a dynasty, so everyone is always more skeptical of them cheating. These 2 points aside, I’m not even saying I’m mad at him for doping. That was the game back then. I just believe that he was the biggest bully the sport has ever seen.

[@kiely4561]

i bet the interviewer has a picture of David Walsh on his wall that he kisses every night before bed lol, the question about the motor made me laugh lol

[@davidoffon1]

I see you're trying to hide as well!!

[@kiely4561]

what? lol

[@thorpeylad9822]

Love Lance! Hero

[@jasrod2012]

On the topic of Lemond, if he wasn’t doping: 1. He beat dopers 2. If Lemond beat dopers, maybe doping isn’t as effective as we think it is 3. Maybe doping doesn’t have much to do with Lance’s wins, and they were more attributed to his athleticism and determination 4. If 2 and 3 are false maybe Lemond is as much of a doper as everyone else 5. Lemond is most certainly the biggest whiner in cycling and a much more unappealing character than Lance

[@element4element4]

Doping does not have the same effect on everybody, it doesn't boost everybody the same amount. Some people gain mild advantage by doping, while others gain massively. A fully doped peloton vs the same peloton with no doping can have very different winners. And not every team had the resources and connections to dope like some of the biggest teams did. If doping was not as effective as we think, then people would not risk their lives, reputations, livelihoods etc on it like they do. Blood doping for example, requires a massive will to go through very crazy procedures that will never feel natural to you. Nobody would do such things without genuine gains.

[@user-zx1ir7jt4c]

This interviewer is being unreasonable when referring to Betsy Andreu, and frankly he's was acting like a prick. For sure Lance has a lot of baggage but I believe he's changed a bit in the last few years, for the better. You have to start somewhere...

[@ApolloVIIIYouAreGoForTLI]

Are you fucking serious?? He is not sorry one bit...

[@thomasjacquet3449]

His pleasure is related to people deception, that is why Lance will never change, the joy is too exhilarating. The same way you cannot change a serial killer, unless he realises there is something else, other than killing... This guy is crazy, like a corporate psychopath is. He did all those things during many years while not realising he did wrong all the time, even if the world around him recognizes his acts as cheating and wrong. My conclusion is: he simply do not care, so I will not believe he is able to change, that is unreasonable. His only place: jail or psychiatric hospital! That a fraud, he did not win those tours, because he was cheating all the time. If he cannot understand that, he is crazier than I thought. That is reality... LANCE.

[@cecilhenry9908]

I've been listening to his Stages podcasts on the Tour de France 2017, and to my surprise the nastiness, sarcasm and dishonesty of his nature comes through. I was surprised. Still Lance-- not sorry one bit.

[@Richardjn]

Sam Smith You idiot it’s nice to see an interviewer ask direct and pertinent questions. You are feeling sorry for a serial liar who defrauded millions from sponsors, destroyed lives and threatened his team mates with their careers.

[@spencerjones1844]

Say what you want...... he is truly the greatest

[@Sobchak2]

Spencer Jones Yes. One of the greatest liars and cheats sport has ever seen.

[@niceguy1774]

Lol! You could really tell that Mickey there was awfully sore about the treatment of Irish spectators: Emma, Walsh, Kimmage. Every "Gotcha!" moment he thought he had, was obliterated by Armstrong's openness. How mad was he that a man in the room disputed something this journo thought he had from some anonymous source? 🤣 Oi! Maybe ask another question about hidden motors in 1999, eh!? 😭

[@Zezezeze69]

Imagine trying to defend one of the biggest scumbag sports stars ever.

[@niceguy1774]

@@Zezezeze69 No thanks. Not only will I not do such a thing, I won't even imagine.

[@marathawnjawn8862]

Lance has moved on. It's been documented over and over about how Armstrong's team doped, the methods they used, when, where, etc etc...this interviewer asking him that he owes it to people to explain is kind of ridiculous. Who doesn't know? Lance has moved on and I think he showed great restraint with this incompetent interviewer. Clearly this radio jockey has not moved on, unlike Lance.

[@element4element4]

Easy to move on when you are the offender.

[@x-raymind7778]

He’s laughing at lances podcast who is this clown this is his only chance at relevancy he wants to reprimand a guy who is probably older then him like he’s a little kid

[@domjermano674]

Lance does not understand his condition. His DNA was cancerous. The drugs he took was for his disadvantage in having Cancer DNA, when other people or athletes didn't have cancer. If he didn't take the drugs how is it right he compete with Cancer DNA against others who didn't have cancer DNA in sports? In fact if he didn't take the drugs also named as medication, proves that Sports discriminates against people who have a disability. Athletes who don't have cancer and take these drugs, are the people who are doping to give a boost to their performance. Lance legitimately won the Tour de France, and is an incredible athlete who overcame the threat of death of Cancer. According to God, he is not disqualified and retains the Tour de France Wins in his career. God Bless Lance. God is the judge, not man. Congratulations. Show less

[@derryboyo]

Lance won nothing pal.

[@CFCMahomet]

@@derryboyo the peloton thinks differently. The guys who finished in the top ten of those years think that he won.

[@derryboyo]

@@CFCMahomet because they were cheats also. No morals, they all sold their soul.

[@lewiskx20]

Interviewer has no clue about anything to do with cycling, or that's what it sounds like!

[@PierceFiercex]

Terrible interviewer

[@bergy9000]

Great interview.....