Lance Armstrong doped (update 2013 - lose ? add !)

[Lineker]

Their sources are the preview snippit that got sent to us

[gunnar hendershow]

Oprah confirmed he admitted it.

http://espn.go.com/sports/endurance/story/_/id/8845599/oprah-winfrey-confirms-lance-armstrong-admitted-doping

[Lineker]

The International Olympic Committee has stripped Lance Armstrong of his bronze medal from the 2000 Sydney Olympics because of his involvement in doping. The IOC sent a letter to Armstrong on Wednesday night asking him to return the medal. The move came after the IOC was notified by cycling's governing body, the UCI, that Armstrong had not appealed the decision to disqualify him.

[Adam]

The final nail in the coffin, Lance Armstrong has admitted to doping. In fact he took it all, and took EPOs and all that on all of his Le Tour victories.

[GhostMachine]

Everyone is going to be coming out of the woodwork to either sue him or to just ask for money back now.

[Adam]

Him admitting to being a 'bully' is perhaps the most damning thing in all of this for me so far.

[Noah]

Will Armstrong's confession improve his reputation?

Yes: 9877

No: 81427

Ninemsn poll of today.

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

He can be tried for perjury now. In 2010 he lied in court under oath about all of this.

Sounds like the interview and confession didn't cover it all, only what has already been proven by UASDA. People want this to be over but sadly it isn't. Thankfully the Tour Down Under is going to start soon and the cycling season is just about to get going again.

[brenchill]

How many people do you think Lance Armstrong has killed?

He came across as more of a serial killer than a shamed sports star in that Oprah interview.

[Colly]

In fairness a shamed sports star with a history of shocking behaviour by the sounds of it, calling someone who accused him a whore just as an example.

All I keep thinking is how much he's being paid for the interview.

[thatshortguy]

All I keep thinking is how much he's being paid for the interview.

This. I can't help but think he has enough to be just fine the rest of his life, so this is all an attempt to keep people from randomly punching him in the face.

[Dynamite]

He'll make a fortune when he inevitably releases a book about the whole thing too.

[gunnar hendershow]

Forbes lists him at $100 million. There are a fair amount of suits that can be filed (and have been being prepared for a good while) to take a good chunk out of that, but he's too famous not to ever lose all his wealth unless he spends it extravagantly or suddenly owes multiple people alimony and child support. Basically he'll be able to write a book, he'll get paid for appearances in spite of his, and if he ever gets desperate he can go on TV and make a fool of himself like a lot of other celebrities with growing financial problems do.

He avoided mentioning anyone else though, which is huge for all of them since a lot of his old teammates could be liable in certainly quite a few civil suits.

This audio isn't available until tomorrow, but save this link because when it goes up there's a good rundown of where the seven and eight figure suits lie. http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/01/18/169716506/lance-armstrongs-confession-could-cost-him-millions

[Lineker]

Man stuck with 7,000 Lance Armstrong DVD's.

Wally.

[Adam]

Well that is what you call a colossal fool.

[HailtotheYo]

He avoided mentioning anyone else though, which is huge for all of them since a lot of his old teammates could be liable in certainly quite a few civil suits.

That's the most interesting thing about all of this, to me.

With as much as it appears he did do now, plenty of other people did things as well. It kind of explains how he wasn't completely blown up several years ago. Sure, he's the kingpin asshole in all of it but he's hardly alone and hardly the only one at fault (in the entire mess with the USPS team/etc). There are reasons it took this long and reasons as to why only a select few have said anything.

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

Lanky mountains specialist and CSAMH's favourite cyclist of Tour de France 2007 Michael Rasmussen has admitted to doping between 1998 and 2010. He's already served a 2 year ban for lying about his whereabouts (for which he got pulled from the Tour while wearing the yellow jersey) and has now fully retired.

He's going to help with the investigation into Rabobank which, it seems, was a team built on doping for quite a long time.

[Adam]

Rasmussen's admission has got to be one of the least surprising in this whole thing.

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

Well he showed a "non-negative" result after the Tour which meant that he was using SOMETHING but it wasn't something that was necessarily banned at the time.

[Lineker]

So, Lance isn't testifying under oath with Usada and now the US government is suing him.