Claiming he didn’t dope in his comeback is not credible. My impression from the interview is that he didn’t come clean, therefore he’s still dirty as hell. I hope he remains banned for life.
Not saying they will – the blood evidence from those two years clearly says ‘once chance in a million’ it wasn’t tainted. But rather positing a reason Lance threw that out there as a “trial balloon” of sorts after his ‘wholehearted’ confession.
Of course, it won’t happen – but he can always do another interview in Sept saying he lied in this one. 
Prize money you mean?
Or the money he got from suing people and newspapers who told the truth about what he was doing.
There is that, yes. I guess my anger towards lance burnt out a while ago. As I said before, this info has been out a long time. I was far angrier as all this stuff was happening.
I think this is funny just because it’s so mundane: Armstrong is even bullshitting about the dictionary definition of “cheat.” Any dictionary definition of the word is going to include ideas like deception and breaking the rules. All he remembered is ‘to gain an advantage on a rival.’ So if he ever looked up the word at all, he picked the definition he considered most favorable to himself, ignored that it has to be an unfair advantage, and ignored ones that clearly applied to him and his conduct.
I pretty much sprained a muscle rolling my eyes at this one. How much more of a slimy, condescending, douchebag could he be. “Gee, I didn’t know if I was lying, cheating, and being deceptive, so I looked in a dictionary. And wouldn’t you know, I wasn’t doing any of those things!”
In a just world Armstrong and Roger Clemens would wind up sharing a cramped bachelor pad (or jail cell). They have the same personality and it’d be nice for them to know what it’s like to deal with such an unbearable asshole.
Part 2’s on now
http://ownspecial.oprah.com/lancearmstrong.html
Boring as hell. Oprah did as good as possible but the whole thing was boring.
Hopefully Oprah included a ‘no-lying’ clause in the contract she and LA signed before the interview, so that when it turns out later that he did dope during his comeback, she too can sue him for the money she paid him for this interview.
I don’t think Oprah pays for interviews, does she?
Yea, I’m curious about this to. LA kinda seemed like a guy who was there just to get it over with and collect a pay-check. And money makes a lot more sense as a reason to (partially) confess then the weird theory that this is part of an extremely longshot plan to make a comeback on the triathlon circuit.
A friend of mine posted this one my Facebook wall ( I assume he wouldn’t mind my repeating it): “…I love the quote that ‘I’m a flawed character.’ It reminds me of a scene from Buffy. I imagine Principal Snyder would say, ‘You’ve cheated and lied in public for decades. That’s quite the character flaw.’”
Yeah, OK, if he said that he never even encouraged anyone else to dope, that’s probably a lie, unless you’re mincing the word “encourage” awfully fine.
When does he say that in Buffy? It’s a great line and I want to find the clip, even if the quote isn’t exact. I assume he says this…to the mayor?
Here’s the scene:
Oh, it’s from “Doppelgangland.”
Thanks, knoff.