Lance Armstrong confesses

[Don]

Sources from Oprah's taped interview with Armstrong are saying he admitted it. I know the majority of people thought he did it anyway but this has got to open the doors for him to get his ass sued off. Especially the former friends and publications he want after and tried to ruin because they were going to expose him. Not to mention some of the prize money that sponsors will probably want back.

Yes, he made money for cancer AWARENESS (and himself) but there are a lot of people he went after with all the legal firepower he had to try and discredit them and denounce them as liars. Does the ends to the means really justify all of that?

[slucero]

Armstrong is the definition of the word "c-u-n-t"... he deserves what he gets.

[JRNYMAN]

Sources from Oprah's taped interview with Armstrong are saying he admitted it. I know the majority of people thought he did it anyway but this has got to open the doors for him to get his ass sued off. Especially the former friends and publications he want after and tried to ruin because they were going to expose him. Not to mention some of the prize money that sponsors will probably want back.

Yes, he made money for cancer AWARENESS (and himself) but there are a lot of people he went after with all the legal firepower he had to try and discredit them and denounce them as liars. Does the ends to the means really justify all of that?

It was the hot topic on CNN earlier today. Sources have already said he will be indicted for perjury the second he admits it. They played excerpts from a taped deposition he gave where he was asked point blank very candid and very direct questions about his doping and was informed during the deposition that it was to be treated as if he was in a court of law and that lying in any way, shape or form could bring serious consequences with severe punishment. He was then asked if he thoroughly understood what had just been explained to him to which he replied that he did. It could get ugly for ol' Lance! France has already stated they want all the monies returned post haste!

[slucero]

only and ego the size of Armstrongs would admit this and think nothing would come of it..

[Rick]

only and ego the size of Armstrongs would admit this and think nothing would come of it..

Unless he cut a deal somewhere along the lines. One of those... "If I confess, you have to go light on me" type of things.

[DavidWT]

Between Jodi Foster coming out of the closet, and Lance admitting to doping, this sure has been a week of truly shocking revelations!

[Don]

He told Oprah that he started doing PEDs BEFORE his cancer was found. Some had thought he started after to help himself re-abilitate faster but that doesn't now appear o be the case

[yulog]

He told Oprah that he started doing PEDs BEFORE his cancer was found. Some had thought he started after to help himself re-abilitate faster but that doesn't now appear o be the case

Always thought it was before, i knew alot of these guys (steroid /ped users) when i was younger and many of them were getting cancer especially the ones who were overdoing it.

[Liam]

And just like that, I still don't care about cycling.

[tater1977]

Lance Armstrong: After the Apology


http://youtu.be/KQDmX5nVbVw

[Don]

Lance Armstrong: After the Apology


http://youtu.be/KQDmX5nVbVw

Love the big AMGEN sign behind him, how ironic.

[Don]

Am I right in thinking that he admitted doping up until 2005 and then quit? Statute of limitations has run on that, any doping after 2005 is fair game?

The only thing the statute of limitations comes into play over will be criminal liability. Even that may become moot if his test in 2009 that is being examined shows enough mature blood cells which would mean he did do a blood transfusion despite saying the opposite on Oprah.

The civil suits that will be going forward against him will not be affected by any time statutes.

[TotoStu]

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[cudaclan]

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/more/n ... armstrong/

[The Sushi Hunter]

Between Jodi Foster coming out of the closet, and Lance admitting to doping, this sure has been a week of truly shocking revelations!

My heart can only take so much more "not giving a shit".

Yeah, I hear that.

[Don]

US Department of Justice joins lawsuit against Lance Armstrong for doping, fraud

http://www.theverge.com/2013/2/22/40183 ... strong-for

Doping lawsuit could cost Armstrong tens of millions of dollars

Lance Armstrong's public confession of his longtime use of blood doping and performance-enhancing drugs is about to get very expensive. On Friday, Armstrong's lawyers stated that the US Department of Justice had joined a federal whistleblower lawsuit against Armstrong filed by former teammate Floyd Landis. The DOJ can join any lawsuit filed under the False Claims Act, but the federal government's involvement is also noteworthy because the Armstrong's cycling team's primary sponsor was the United States Postal Service. The suit charges that Armstrong defrauded the USPS by concealing his doping and retaliating against team members who revealed both the doping and the fraud. According to the the Associated Press, Armstrong and the federal government had been in settlement talks, but a source close to the talks says the two sides are "tens of millions of dollars apart on how much Armstrong should pay to settle the case."

Officially, Armstrong's legal stance is that the USPS has not been damaged by its $40 million sponsorship of the cycling team. "The Postal Service's own studies show that the service benefited tremendously from its sponsorship — benefits totaling more than $100 million," said Armstrong's attorney Robert Luskin. One assumes that the revelation that Armstrong led the USPS team in years of cheating and concealing his cheating and is eventual public disgrace after years of full-throated denials is not factored into that $100 million figure.

Landis first filed his whistleblower lawsuit against Armstrong in 2010. Landis won the 2006 Tour de France but was later stripped of his title for doping. (Armstrong was recently stripped of his Tour de France titles as well.) Landis and other teammates charged that Armstrong and USPS team manager Johan Bruyneel pressured other members of the teams to use the banned substance EPO and take other measures to prevent detection both of their own doping and that of their teammates. The suit seeks redress for Armstrong's violation of his sponsorship contract's morals clause, for fraud in concealing those violations, and for intimidating and punishing teammates and other employees who attempted to reveal those violations to the world.

In the history of sports doping, Armstrong and his team members were particularly innovative in the efforts they made to conceal their activities and enforce discipline. Their incentives weren't limited to winning races but were directly tied to lucrative sponsorship agreements. Armstrong may have finally paid the price for doping within the sport, which never would have happened without whistleblowers speaking out. But the real price in terms of both dollars and legal punishment will not come from his sponsors. It will come from the federal government, and it will be for bullying and fraud.