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Preview: The Fall of Lance Armstrong

January 25, 2013 3:30 PM

Armstrong confessed to doping in an interview with Oprah Winfrey last week, but U.S. Anti-Doping Agency CEO Travis Tygart, says the evidence proves Lance Armstrong withheld the truth and lied to Winfrey on key issues. Watch Scott Pelley's report on Sunday, Jan. 27 at 7:00 p.m. ET/PT.

USADA CEO: Armstrong lied to Oprah
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by IndyJoshMo January 27, 2013 5:37 PM EST
So this guy says Lance is bad because he cheated better than the others therefore he's a bad guy. No doubt Lance is a bad guy. And this ADA CEO is what's wrong with sports. Instead of saying "yeah we know everyone was cheating and we need to do something about it", he tries to deflect so there's no space for improving. If he was truly interested in making things better, he would partner up with the best cheaters and find solutions. He gains nothing by spending all his resources to catch a guy from a race 10 years ago.
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by IndyJoshMo January 27, 2013 5:36 PM EST
So this guy says Lance is bad because he cheated better than the others therefore he's a bad guy. No doubt Lance is a bad guy. And this ADA CEO is what's wrong with sports. Instead of saying "yeah we know everyone was cheating and we need to do something about it", he tries to deflect so there's no space for improving. If he was truly interested in making things better, he would partner up with the best cheaters and find solutions. He gains nothing by spending all his resources to catch a guy from a race 10 years ago.
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by HoleinOneGolf January 27, 2013 10:42 AM EST
WOW finally . . . this shouldn't be a surprise to a sensible person, As I was one of the people that provided prizes for some of Lance's contests and THE first company on the internet to do prize providing for sports events (100,000 or so around the world). We knew 25+ years ago that people "cheat" "cut corners" "break the rules" in sports contests.

I was verifying these sports claims (probably the only one in the world) 15 years before Lance started doping. IT HAPPENS. ITS SAD when it gets to that level, (its also human nature). I have witnessed numerous fraudulent winning sport claims from hometown-locals (Stamford, Danbury, Hartford) to national level events. Even in golf, (maybe the highest integrity sport). Speaking out from the onset (very quietly) as no-one wanted to believe the opposite, with smoking gun facts, while continually chastised?

What is REALLY DEPLORABLE are the (officials, state regulators, politicians, agencys, people, partners etc) I have come in contact with, that KNEW & ignored the truth and THEN used these NON-compliant winners, looking the other way, "grabbing onto their coattails" per se, for PR & their OWN personal gain.
. . . Lance "manned up" . . . now they all have to be exposed (CT demanded to shut down our web site that listed these facts) (any 1st amendment lawyers out there?) . . . that will be MUCH LARGER STORY in the future as the names will be household

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by ATLCurtis January 27, 2013 9:19 AM EST
Lance was a liar and wrong, but this guy is a bigger jerk.
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by boplenty2 January 27, 2013 8:30 AM EST
Travis Tygart needs to go away. He has way overdone his 15 minutes of fame. Too bad his "findings" could never stand up in a real court of law.
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by aubfmet January 27, 2013 4:39 AM EST
His lying outweighs his accomplishments. He should be dismissed from the news.
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by 167irishboy January 27, 2013 1:03 AM EST
Who really cares? Make sure your own trash is taken out and quit worshiping athletes. Go give that old lady that's been working at the Salvation Army for the last 30 years your attention.

It truly is Divine intervention that the world functions as well as it does with so many idiots in it that worry about so much that has to do with nothing.
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by rwsmith29456 January 27, 2013 12:18 AM EST
Are we supposed to believe that the entire protocol of testing for drug abuse was bypassed by all competitors except a few dull people that got caught?
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by 909101 January 26, 2013 11:12 PM EST
All this talk about Armstrong being the leader but according to testimony in the USADA own documents it was Frankie Andreu that was first to use PEDs among the groups of riders and that he wasas the one that arranged for the other riders to get access to the drugs from Switzerland. Why is the narritve from the USADA now that Andreu and the other were mere pawns of Armstrong and received very little with regard to punishment?
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by 1notrub11 January 26, 2013 9:24 PM EST
I find it interesting, and perhaps it is because I am not well enough read on the issue, and....
I would agree that Armstrong is wrong to have done what he did - I, in no way defend him
I would agree that such behavior is probably much more rampant in this and other sports, than most realize
I would agree that doping is NOT justified

but....
I have somehow missed the "visual" on the truth and the exposure of his testing data. Seems to me that Tygart could solve the problem directly and support what appear so far to be "claims" by simply presenting the data he says shows Armstrong is lying.

Why, pray tell, is this not done? If it is cut and dried, it should be obvious. If it shows a trend, then it is suggestive. If it is unclear, Armstrong appears guilty until proven otherwise.
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