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Would you raise your right
hand, please?

Do you solemnly swear to tell
the truth, the whole truth

- and nothing but the truth,
so help you God?
- Yeah.

Would you please give us
your full name?

Lance Armstrong.

You understand that although we're in
the conference room of your lawyers,

you are giving testimony as
if you are in a court of law?

- Do you understand that?
- Correct.

And that penalties of perjury
attach to this deposition

- just like they would to a court of law proceeding.
- Of course.

There's been allegations

regarding what has been alleged to
be a steroid or cortisone in
connection...

- What do you mean, a steroid or a cortisone?
- Cortisone, I apologise.

- Because they're different.
- I understand, believe me.

One is actually anabolic
and one is actually catabolic.

Know what they've done with
the money?

I just told you I don't know.

- Was it earmarked...
- Which part of "I don't know"
do you not understand?

- I'm just trying to make sure your testimony is clear.
- How many times do I have to say it?

It can't be any clear than
"I've never taken drugs."

How clear is that?

His name is Lance Armstrong,
and today, if his legs feel strong,

this 21-year-old Texan can become

cycling's first million-dollar baby.

Regardless of
the million-dollar prize,

it's been a race that
I wanted to win all year long

and now with that staring me in the
face, it's an even bigger race.

He's going for his third consecutive
victory with only today's
four states championship

standing in the way of winning the
Thrift Drug Triple Crown -

look out Philadelphia,

Lance is coming to town!

There was this million-dollar prize,
if Lance Armstrong

could win, so all the pressure
was on him, it was on the team.

Thing is, he was the favourite
going in - he was strong,

he was beating up on everybody.

I'll be disappointed with anything
but a win.

Lance had the chance to win it.

But he knows, the man to beat
that day, it was me.

Philadelphia - it was my race, every
year I was preparing for that race.

And Frankie Andreu of Motorola

who has slowed down the brakes...

I remember Lance made a deal
with some Italians.

Stephen Swart,

Davis Phinney, Tommy,
the team have this deal with Lance.

Lance Armstrong is flying up the wall,
making it look almost effortless!

The last three laps is
when the race is decided.

That's
when Lance starts talking to me,

he wants to make sure that
I was in the plan,

didn't want to take any risk.

And he say, "We make a deal,

and I know you're the only one
can come with me,

but don't come with me."

And right on cue,
Lance is out of the saddle,

pushing himself into a higher gear.

On my heart, on my deep heart,
I don't want to do it,

but when you have eight team-mates,
you can't go against the team.

The group could do nothing but watch
Lance dance away into the lead

as they, compared to Lance,
seemed to be standing still.

And so I pulled back and see him
going. And he went.

And true to form, Lance doesn't
disappoint them.

Cycling's first million-dollar man,
US Pro champion!

Deep inside, I feel terrible,
because I know I could have,

I could have won it.

For Lance, a joyous celebration
with his mother.

The success that Lance has seen
and will continue to see

of course makes me very proud,
there's not a better gift.

Lance has rolled the dice and come
up a winner.

It's a big day for me but I think
it's a bigger day for cycling,

everybody won today.

As far as I know, Philly's been
going around for 30 years

and I don't think that's ever been
done before.

So, that's a huge chunk of change.

After the race, Lance
come to my room,

with a cake box, a metal
cake box, a Panettone

and he just gave it to me
and say "Merry Christmas."

It was, like, $100,000.

Cash.

This was a... This was
a Lance Armstrong specialty.

I really want to win a classic.

I mean, if you're going to put
a lot of time into it,

if I'm going to be
18, 19, 20 years old

and I'm going to give up
an education,

- if I'm going to give up...
- That is what you did?

Yeah, if I'm going to give
up time at home,

sure, it better be rewarding,
in terms of money.

Always in the back of Lance's mind

was that great fortunes can be made
in professional road racing.

And for a poor kid growing up, hard
scrabble in Texas, it's important.

The next progression is to race
in Europe, in the biggest pro races.

Como, Italy, was kind of like
the American base.

A lot of 7-Eleven guys were living
there, and at that time,

Lance and I,

I don't know how we got into
the discussion, but we decided,

"Hey, we'll live together for next
year" and so I was like, "Sweet.

It'll be good, it'll be fun."

It was great. You know, cooking,
having risotto.

I remember eating watermelon out on the
balcony and we had this bad little car,

that we used to get around.

I mean, we weren't teenagers,

but it was like teenagers
just hanging out in Europe.

Frankie was Lance's closest friend,
and because I was dating Frankie,

I became friends with Lance as well,
and he was fun.

He was fun to hang out with.

And Lance and I had a unique
relationship,

because so many people from early on
would just kow-tow to him,

but with Lance, he would try to rib
me, and try to just get me going,

and so we would butt heads and
we would argue.

But we kind of, I think, enjoyed
getting under each other's skin.

Hello again, and welcome back to
the Tour de France.

We're at Stage 8 this morning and
the sun is still shining...

The Tour de France...

...REALLY hard.

Racing bikes in Europe is bad for
you, it's not healthy.

You sacrifice a lot to be
successful.

At the Tour de France, I was rooming
with Lance, and I was like,

"Lance, this is your day.
This is the one you can win."

And he was like, "Really, you
think so?" I'm like, "Yeah!"

Armstrong is fifth down the
line...

Armstrong has the advantage...

It's got, like,
a little 6K climb at the end,

I mean, it's power downhill sprint,
it's perfect.

And on that day, the whole team
committed,

led him out to the bottom of that
climb

and pretty much, "All right, go!"

Armstrong boxed in by Dominique Arnould, who
won the first stage of the Tour a year ago.

They've pushed Armstrong very,
very wide indeed as Pensec goes

and Pensec really isn't a sprinter,
this would be a surprise.

Ronan Pensec leading out, now Armstrong
goes, on the left of the picture,

Lance Armstrong in his first Tour de
France, they all said he was too young,

but he gets it on the line!

We met at the Motorola Hotel, he was
only 21 years of age, he was riding

the Tour for the first time

and in that pathetic way of
sports writers,

we like to be able to say
at some future point,

"Oh, you know,

I interviewed Lance when he was
just a kid in his first Tour",

it was going to be like
a badge of honour.

That was a lot of fun.
That was really -

I think, just the way it went
down with the last climb

and guys were attacking
and I was so motivated...

When I asked him about what he felt
like coming towards the end of race,

he said, "Oh, when I get in the situation
with the little group of 6 or 8 riders

and I know I've got a real chance of winning"
he said, "I start to shriek and my body shakes.

And I think about my mum -
she didn't raise a quitter."

I had this sense of a guy
who just wouldn't be beaten.

Who through the force of his will
and his personality,

became almost somebody different.

There's Dekker on the floor again!

And Lance Armstrong
has sprinted the gap closed...

Lance Armstrong, who has joined...

Now he's looking back and seeing
nobody

as he become champion of the world.

Lance Armstrong, 21 years of age,

is America's second only
World ever Road Race Champion,

beating the greatest
man of the moment in world cycling,

Miguel Indurain.

He raised a smile there, but I
think Miguel, very disappointed.

And could it be that we're
watching the man

who will replace the great
Greg LeMond in the years ahead,

Lance Armstrong now.

Indurain goes now, in what to him
will hopefully re-establish him

as the best rider...

Through 1993,

the races just increased,
the speeds were so dramatic,

it was night and day.

One of the riders was told what was
going on in the Spanish team.

The rider just said,
"Pfft, you guys have no chance.

We're doing EPO, growth hormone,
testosterone.

You'll never make it."

He comes up to the line, 1 hour 50
and 58, 2 minutes precisely!

Well, the way that guy came by...

and that was probably part of the
reason that I'm so wasted in the end

because I tried to match his speed

and he goes along the flats 55, 56,
57 K's an hour, I was 53.11.

Getting dropped!

We're talking about the speed
of the peloton and this new drug EPO

and talking about Dr. Ferrari.

Lance would have known Ferrari
by reputation.

Now he wanted to meet the man
and start working with him.

Ferrari had a reputation of being
the best in the business.

If you wanted to win
races, win the Tour,

you go see this guy and he's going
to set you up.

As good as that reputation was,
everybody knew that if you went

to see Ferrari, you were going
to get doped.

So Lance kept it a secret
from everyone for a long time.

And Lance had the intelligence
to see that Ferrari was special

in terms of his understanding
of physiology,

and of the drugs and how
they interacted.

With his charisma
and his natural intelligence,

Lance was able to endear himself
to Ferrari,

become the Adam of what would be
Ferrari's creation.

You keep doing your job
as Frankenstein

and I'll be the best monster
you've ever created.

And Ferrari loved him for that.

You know, the pupil from heaven.

The train just started rolling
full blast,

just like, it was just...

reefing across the landscape.

It is, he's gone.
Armstrong has gone,

the sort of thing he did
in the World Championship at Oslo.

Is this man on the start of his
greatest ever season?

Travelling at nearly 40mph,

Armstrong showing enormous
determination.

You couldn't develop a product more
perfect for the ravages

of endurance athletics than EPO.

Armstrong has done it today.

EPO was done in secret.

You never knew what anybody
else was doing.

Even for the top, top guys,

they never knew what the other guy
was doing, so everybody thought

they had to do more in order to be
able to win, or to keep up.

I was tired of getting beat up on,

tired of getting dropped
and watching fat sprinters get over

category-one climbs and win. Getting
thrown out the back of the group.

"I'm going to, I'm not going to."
You know, sleepless nights,

figuring out, and then...

- You did a great job.
- We're going, "That's our Frankie!"

- That's great. Congratulations.
- Thanks a lot.

Have you been enjoying
the Tour de France?

No comment.

Sure enough,
eventually I cracked.

Yeah, drove to Switzerland
and pretty much just walked

into a pharmacy, just like, could
have bought chewing gum.

It was that easy.

But then the punch-up started.

Lance Armstrong, number 61 for
the Motorola Team.

When you're racing,
you think you're invincible.

You think you can do anything,
nothing's going to stop you,

nothing's going to harm you and then
all of a sudden...

From the beginning of the Tour,
I knew that I was a step off,

and a lot of times when your body
is down like that,

then a virus or any illness will move
in and take over.

That evening the phone rings,
and I hear Lance's neighbour

on the other end, and he said
"Linda, I don't know any easy way

to tell you this, but Lance has
been diagnosed with cancer."

It literally crushed every
single piece of me on the inside.

On Wednesday October 2nd, I was
diagnosed with testicular cancer.

Prior to seeing my doctor last week,

I'd been experiencing swelling

and pain in one of my testicles,

and I'd coughed up some blood.

On Thursday October 3rd, I underwent

surgery at St David's hospital

here in Austin, to have
the malignant testicle removed.

A CAT scan was also performed
the same day.

The CAT scan revealed that my
condition has spread into my abdomen.

At the time, I think most people
would have suggested,

with the brain metastases and such,

that at best you'd cure maybe one
out of three of those people.

It was awful, and I thought how
in the hell does a guy

who's in such good shape,
so young, get cancer?

The first impression I got,

which is the impression
I get from a lot of people,

is that he was scared.

He was certainly looking
at very primal aspects.

You know, saving his life or not,

and a lot of secondary
consequences - his career,

family, future kids.
All that.

We wanted to go see Lance,
and the time to see him

was after his brain surgery,

and so Frankie and I made the
six-hour drive to Indiana.

And that was the first time I'd
seen him since the announcement,

and I remember seeing
the big horseshoe scar

on the top of his head.

We went into the room
and it was a football game,

Dallas Cowboys football game
was playing. So he was in there,

his girlfriend at the time
Lisa Shields was there,

and Stephanie McIlvain,
the rep from Oakley was there.

Chris Carmichael, his coach,
was there with Paige, I think.

And the doctors came in, and when
the doctors came in...

...they said, "Oh, you know, we need
to ask you some questions."

I said, "We should leave,
let him have his privacy."

And Lance said, "No, no, no.
Don't worry about it.

You guys can stay, no problem."
And I said, "OK, we'll stay."

They asked a few banal questions,
and then one of them was.

"Have you ever used any
performance-enhancing drugs?"

And Lance, just nonchalantly holding
on to his IV, staring down,

rattled off, "Yeah, EPO, testosterone,
growth hormone, cortisone and steroids."

And at that point my
jaw was, like, holy shit,

because Betsy's sitting
right next to me.

I don't know what the hell
she's thinking.

And I was like, "We got to go."

And we stood up and walked
out of the room, right away.

I was furious,
because I said to him,

"That's how Lance got his cancer,

and if you're doing that,
I'm not marrying you."

We were just engaged
six weeks earlier.

She was upset that
he was taking that stuff.

She was crazy, like, if I was taking
that stuff, then if you're

taking all that stuff, it obviously
is going to affect your health.

Because I thought, "Oh, my gosh,
is this going on?

Is everybody doing this?"
And Frankie swore to me no.

Had to do with trust,
and is she going to marry me?

So, you know, it was, yeah,
you know, I think she even

right there on the spot threatened,
like, "I'm not marrying you,

if you're doing all that stuff."

I was just ready to call
the whole thing off.

Before cancer,

Lance had signed up for
the French Team Cofidis.

It wasn't know if he would live or
race bikes again.

All of those things were not known.

I still have a ways to
go on the bike.

Does it sound like some kind of
miracle cure?

No, it's not a miracle.
Everything was...

The therapy was normal therapy.

I had to do just as much
as everybody else.

He made the decision to go because
they were astonished to see him

there, and then he decided he would
carry on to Italy

and see Michele Ferrari,
for what would have been

really just
a friend-to-friend visit.

That is extraordinary,

because it indicated

that in a relatively short time,

he and Michele Ferrari
had become very close,

and it was also a visit to say,

"If I come back and I make a full
recovery, I'm going to achieve

everything I ever wanted to
achieve, whatever it takes,

and I want you working with me."

The American Mafia.

Took him a long
time to find a team

and a structure that would
make it worthwhile.

When I tried to come back,
there was no interest. None.

And then finally signed the deal
with the US Postal Team.

I think that if I were to come back
and to win,

and to be successful, I would
consider that a complete recovery,

as an athlete.

As much as Lance wanted to win,
Thom Weisel wanted to win,

and he was the creator
of the US Postal Team.

People talk about Lance being this
kind of ruthless alpha male leader.

Thom Weisel was one of those.
You know, a ruthless guy.

Lance's first contract
was for minimal wages.

Weisel said, "Go out there,
win races,

prove you're back competitive
and I'll give you a huge bonus."

And he went after those bonuses
like, tooth and nail.

Lance, that's 40 seconds on Masolini
and one minute and ten seconds.

On certain teams, you have riders
that are acquaintances.

He was just smiling a minute ago!

Or co-workers.

That '99 Tour Team,
we were friends and good friends.

We were just, we were close.

It was a close-knit group of riders.

Hincapie, Livingston,
Vande Velde, Lance,

and we would do anything
for each other.

I hate the French.
Screw the French.

Frankie was on that team,
Tyler Hamilton was on that team.

When I got selected to do the team,

I told my parents.
I told them to come over

because this is probably
the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity

to see me in the Tour de France.

Lance, Kristin, Frankie and I
were driving

from Milano to Sanremo, and Lance
had to make a stop to see Ferrari,

which was outside of Milano,

in the parking lot of a hotel
gas station...

...in Ferrari's camper van.

And I said,
"Why are you meeting him here?

Isn't that odd, you meeting
Ferrari, your doctor, here?"

He said, "So the fucking journalists
don't find out."

And I said, "Well, what's wrong,
if the journalists find out?"

And he just looked at me
and he glared.

Kristin and I had to
waste about an hour

until Lance was done
doing his tests with Ferrari.

When he was finished,
Lance was pretty excited,

and he said,
"My numbers are great."

And then he got in the car,

he looked through his rear view
mirror, he looked at me

and he said, "Frankie could get
results too, but he's too cheap."

He told me a bunch of times,
that I needed to step up,

and I should go see Ferrari.
You know, there's no way.

I just felt like if I was even
linked as going to see Ferrari,

that automatically
meant I was a doper.

The danger about EPO and there
in France was, you know,

there was a big bust
the year before.

Riders and staff went to jail.

French police raided the hotel
rooms of several leading riders

and found stashes of
performance-enhancing drugs.

Another leading rider was missing
from the line-up,

in police custody...

It was the year after the Festina
affair, where a lot of drugs

were caught within a team.

The team couldn't risk taking it
to the race.

You know, we'd lose the sponsor
right away.

To get EPO for the Tour de France,
we came up with a plan.

Well, after last year's sensational
Tour de France,

who knows what we can expect
this time around.

Departure of the man everybody
is talking about, Richard Virenque.

Did you hear that cheer?

The plan had Motor Man involved.

Motor Man was a French...

He used to be a gardener/handyman

for Lance Armstrong.
He loved to ride motorcycles.

Back to Abraham Olano,

I think probably the number one
favourite now.

He would follow the race,
always stay within probably

a half-hour drive from our hotel.

The best finisher of a year ago,
Bobby Julich.

He's based everything on this month,
the Tour de France,

he wants to be the American winner.

But the man doing great times out on
the course, Phil, is Lance Armstrong.

He hasn't been here for a couple
of years because of his illness

but he's back now.

Motor Man would basically just
wait for a phone call.

The EPO would arrive, you know,
in the evening.

He's just about done.
8.18, Chris Boardman.

8 minutes and 12 seconds
for Abraham Olano

8.09, Zulle has rewritten
the finishing order for now.

And Armstrong coming up now,

can he get off to a great
start in the Tour de France?

He is aiming at eight minutes
and nine seconds,

he's certainly
ahead of Chris Boardman

at this point, my goodness me!

8:02.51,
Lance Armstrong,

with that performance, I think
may have done enough.

He knew about it.

Johan Bruyneel knew about it.

You were right there in the heart
of the Tour de France,

you know?

Thousands and thousands
of people around the team camper.

- All the way from Indianapolis!
- No time, sorry.

I remember just trying to get rid
of it as quickly as possible.

You quickly just stuck it in,
got rid of it.

Then it was quickly hidden away,
typically in like, a Coke can.

It was nerve-racking,

but yet, at the time, it was kind
of exciting too,

cos you were being such a deviant.

Sestriere, the first big
mountain day.

Destination's Sestriere, 213 km of
distance...

We had a job to set up Lance,
to keep him as fresh as possible

till that final climb.

US Postal, where the pace-making up
the climb was done by Frankie Andreu.

We had to set the tempo, to be
able to keep things together,

and then riding on the
front like a drag race,

as hard as we could to the bottom
of the climb,

turn and then start riding as hard
as I could, like a field sprint.

When I was watching
the Tour on TV,

I saw Frankie climbing,

leading the pack up
a mountain in Sestriere.

He doesn't specialise in sprinting,

he doesn't specialise
in mountain climbing.

He just specialises in being
the worker bee,

so when Frankie was actually
pulling on Sestriere,

it just didn't make sense.

And so I called a friend of mine
in Paris,

and I said "Are you seeing
what I'm seeing?"

And she said, "Yeah, isn't it great?
Frankie's doing wonderful."

"He's doing so well." And I said,
"Wonderful, my ass.

He's not a climber,
he should not be pulling."

An attack there by Armstrong.

Look at the acceleration of this as
he chases down those motorbikes.

Five and a half hours he's
been pedalling today,

marking everything,
never looking distressed

and now he's going to try
and tear this race apart.

That was an unbelievable attack,
he took a lot of risk to go up

through the inside there. There was
hardly any room at all.

Armstrong is so comfortable,
he jumped across that gap.

That gap was up to 30 seconds.

We're watching the Sestriere stage,
and it was shocking.

It was like, "Oh, my God, he's
dropping riders, dropping climbers."

This man has managed to come back
from the face of death...

One of the mechanics
was right next to me,

and he said, "Il est sur Le jus."

And Armstrong is ripping
the legs off this climber right now.

"Il est sur Le jus."
Like, he's on the juice.

And I'm like, "What?"
He said, "He's on the juice."

He is going faster and faster,
and he is going to win this...

I said, "How do you know?"

He said, "Look at his eyes,
his breathing.

There's no suffering."

It's almost like whatever
they're doing,

they got so much oxygen, it's like
they're not feeling the pain.

He's talking on his radio,
his phone, and it was surreal.

And the rain starts again as Lance
Armstrong conquers Sestriere now.

He heads up towards the line.

Now he's ridden fast and dropped
his rivals, mano-a-mano.

This will be some victory salute.

It will be a while before we know
if it is as the winner

of the Tour de France, but there are
few people in this race now

will doubt that. Lance Armstrong
comes across the line

winner today of the mountain
stage of the Tour de France.

He is really ripping
the race apart.

And so that night after the race
I called Frankie, and I said,

"What in the hell was that?"

And he said, "What was what?"

"What are you doing?
What are you taking?

I don't believe you.
This is bullshit."

There are a lot of secrets,
lot of secrets, lot of...

It was almost like I was
in this just bizarre movie,

some sort of wild western movie.

But something didn't go right.

It was the UCI really who
alerted us.

After winning the prologue,
you're tested.

But then everybody saw you
speaking to the Italians

so is it just
an English language ban?

When Lance was tested for that,
when the results came back,

he had high levels
of corticosteroids in his system.

Cortisone definitely worked.

You know, you could push through
to a whole 'nother level on it,

so over the years, I myself
took cortisone many times -

not for injuries, but for
performance enhancement.

Now you're going to speak...?

- Actually, we were looking for you in there.
- You were? OK.

Lance had asked us to pick up something
from the Spanish doctor in Spain.

What these people need to
remember is that I was

the World Champion in 1993 when
nobody had heard of drugs.

So I went down to Spain,
picked up the product.

That was cloak and dagger.

Nobody had heard of EPO.

Johan, he just kind of passed it
as he's walking by, he just passed

it into my hand and said, "Lovely
day." Just to make sure I had it.

I've proven my class.
I've shown my class, from day one.

Then we were getting back up to
the border to go into France,

there's never a queue at
this border.

There's no secrets here.

There was a queue. I'd seen what
happened after the Festina affair

and I thought, "Oh, God - I could be
one of these that got picked up

last year in the Tour," and I
must have aged about ten years.

We have the oldest secret
in the book - hard work.

So, but luckily enough,
we didn't get stopped.

Came back to France and gave Lance
the little bottle

in the car park of McDonalds
and Frasiers.

We needed to come up with a proper
plan that we're on the same page.

So while I'm giving Lance
his massage,

the others from the team came in.

The problem that had to be sorted
was that Lance

didn't have a prescription
for corticosteroids,

so the idea was then that the doctor
would write a prescription for that,

but backdate it to pre the prologue,

and just pretend it was a cream that
Lance was taking for saddle sores.

And then as we kind of come to the
end of the whole conversation

about steroids, Lance just goes,

"Oh, well, now you know enough
to bring me down."

The next day was the press
conference,

and everything could just blow up
in everybody's faces.

To think I'm going to come back
into sport and risk my life

with performance-enhancing drugs
is crazy.

When I tried to come back to the
sport, nobody gave me a chance.

Nobody gave me a chance.

"So he must be doing something",
so it's the same mentality.

It's the same mentality, it's
consistent through and through.

Tonight, he has some very
high-level help

because the UCI, the world governing
body of cycling,

have just released this press
communique.

They confirm basically that
the rider used an ointment,

and they give the brand name,

and that he also offered them
a medical prescription

before his test.

He comes up to the line -
16 seconds, 15, 14,

it is getting desperately close here.

Zulle versus Armstrong,

and Zulle loses!
Armstrong is the winner,

he has achieved yet another page in
this fairy story

that just goes on.

I'm so proud of my son,
always have been,

and the fact that we overcame
cancer, and we're here today,

in the yellow jersey.

And when you see him tomorrow in the
yellow jersey on the Champs-Elysees?

A picture without words.

...the winner of the Tour de France,
in a big field,

is the American Lance Armstrong,
and what a ride that has been.

It will be remembered
in the millennium

as one of the finest sporting
achievements in the history

of not just cycling, but any sport.

Back in his home state of Texas,
they are celebrating a hero.

The most fantastic feeling,
we're just so proud of him

and this whole team, they just...

It's absolutely incredible and we're

so excited to celebrate tonight

all of us!

We were talking about how our lives
were going to change,

and so I asked the question,

"So, what do you think
about EPO, Kristin?"

"Oh, it's a necessary evil."

And I thought, "Oh, my God,

she doesn't care.

She just doesn't care."

- Smile - say cheese!
- Howdy!

Congratulations, friend, on behalf
of all of us in Texas and America,

we're so proud of you.

He went up and he went up.
Lance is on the wheel.

There's Tyler.

Take it easy on camera.

- Luis!
- How are you? Are you tired today?

No. Be well.

Carmichael and Stapleton,
unbelievable. They're so serious.

The man, the myth - Johan Bruyneel.

- Say hello to my family.
- Hi, family!

In Texas, all eyes were on

American Tour de France winner
Lance Armstrong.

A parade was held in his honour
in Austin,

Armstrong's adopted hometown.

Many people wore yellow, the colour
of the winner's jersey...

...proclaim July 29 in the city
of New York as

Lance Armstrong Day.

...Cycling's biggest prize,
the Tour de France,

the first American winner to lead
an American team,

and in record time at that.

Nobody believed in us,
nobody believed that

if Lance Armstrong took the yellow
jersey, with the help of his team,

on stage eight, how could
they keep it to stage 22?

They thought the team would crack.

But that team of seven out of nine
guys being American,

an American team,
an American sponsor,

they were the strongest
team in the race.

And everybody in Paris knew that.

And I can assure you that next
year's Tour de France,

there will be no,
there'll be no doubters.

Welcome to Futuroscope
on the outskirts of Poitiers,

and to the 87th running
of the Tour de France.

All of a sudden they're talking
about this EPO test coming out.

We didn't know exactly when it was
coming out, but no longer

could you feel 100% safe.

You take a shot of EPO,
you know,

you can get tested the next day
or the day after that.

We weren't 100% sure we were going
to test negative.

So that's when
we did a blood transfusion.

Who was organising all of that?

Lance and Johan Bruyneel,
and the doctor, Del Moral,

had told me a couple of days before
we made a trip down to Spain.

You know, my first time doing it.

And it seemed kind of,
sort of caveman-like.

You know, taking out your own blood,

not seeing it
for three or four weeks.

Weather conditions out here really
have been atrocious.

It's only around about six or seven
degrees Celsius...

The night before our first rest day,
we were in this small hotel,

just south of Mont Ventoux,
which is a famous climb in France.

20 minutes before
it actually happened,

they told me, "We're doing
the transfusion."

Re-infuse the blood, tonight.

I arrived in my room
and it was pretty wild.

The staff had sort of prepared
everything, the doctors.

There was a blood bag taped up
on the wall.

You know,
a red tube coming down,

a tube filled with blood
coming down.

Basically, they, you know,
injected me here.

I have pretty small veins,

so the one place that always
worked was right there.

And it's, you can see
the scars today...

It was a big needle.
It's a serious needle.

You don't mess around
with those things.

Halfway through it,
I'm like, almost shivering,

because, you know, these bags have
been, you know, in a refrigerator.

So they're almost like, you know,
just taking icy cold water,

nearly a gallon of it,
and pouring it down your throat.

I never did, you know,
blood transfusions,

growth hormone, whatever.

I wasn't willing to get
into a full doping programme.

Betsy was upset, so that was
definitely on my mind.

A little bit of being scared
of getting caught.

Here is the Devil,

probably wishing some luck to
the US Postal riders today...

I think we were all pretty nervous,
but almost giddy about it.

We're in the heart of France doing
this completely illegal procedure.

US Postal were pace-making
by Frankie Andreu,

but he paid the price.

I remember, the third week
I was dead.

I mean, barely able to get through
it, and just, you know,

it's not an option to quit. That's
the only reason I got through it,

but I was getting dropped and in
the back, and I was suffering a lot.

I think he'll just about get in
but he's aiming at the time

of 15.27. We're watching probably
the second-fastest time trial

in the history of the
Tour de France...

I had done a lot to help
Lance Armstrong,

I had done a lot to help the team,

and I just wanted to race one more year,
but they had different thoughts.

Armstrong rocks and rolls his way
home here now.

His time is 15.01,
he wins the time trial.

Fantastic. I will definitely
come back.

I will definitely be back
next year.

I don't know how many more years,
but definitely be back next year.

He finished 111th,
but on Lance's team,

it doesn't pay to finish 111th
when you're at the Tour.

I would say, Johan, thanks for giving
us the vision,

but we already had the vision, so...

Here we are at this Tour de France
party with hundreds of people

and everybody is celebrating
the cancer survivor's

incredible win at the most gruelling
sporting event in the world.

What wasn't there to celebrate?

It was a fraud.

Stephanie McIlvain wasn't invited
to the Tour De France party,

which we found very peculiar

given that she was Lance's
personal liaison,

so she went as our guest and we
clicked and a friendship was born.

Stephanie had been there with us
visiting Lance in Indiana,

and the hospital incident came up,

and Stephanie
and I were marvelling at how

Lance was snowballing
the American media,

because they were just
buying into this fairy tale.

It seemed like it worked,
seemed like it worked.

Now, looking back,
"Oh, my God, what was I doing?"

But you're so deep into it, you
know, you don't even have time

to take a half step back
and look at the big picture.

I think if we all stepped back

and looked at the great franchises
that have been built...

I'm glad we didn't get caught.

I would have been...

We all would have been.

It became very divided.

You were on Lance's side
or you were on my side.

And ultimately, you know,
he had control of who was hired,

fired, and whichever.

Frankie was a good guy.

To have your career end

because you wouldn't get
on Lance's doping programme?

It's just, it's not right.

Please welcome 1999's ESPY comeback
athlete of the year...

We're all in this together,
it's going to touch all our lives.

We will win this fight one day.

Lance called me one day

and said, "We're putting together
this foundation.

We're going to focus
on testicular cancer."

Tour de France, baby.
Lance Armstrong. Maillot jaune.

Thank you, Lance, thank you!
I love you!

People believed in Lance.
They believed in his story,

they believed in his hope.

We're all going to leave, I think,

with a different perspective
on this illness,

and a different perspective on this
movement called survivorship.

I tip my hat to Lance Armstrong

and to the whole US Postal Team.

The success of the foundation began
to grow and succeed,

literally in tandem
with Lance's success.

Tour after Tour after Tour.

$15,000. Can we go 20?

Sold, $30,000.

They approached me about exploring
the possibility of coming down

and running the foundation.

Sold, $56,000.

My motivation,
my primary motivation,

in taking that position,

was the fact that I had,

um...

a very personal experience.

I had been diagnosed with cancer.

We believe in life, your life.

Greg LeMond was my friend,
and I called him.

And I begged him.

I said, "Steve, you won't make it."

I said, "You are way too ethical.
I'm just telling you, don't do it."

But I needed to talk to Lance.

We met at a bar and I said,

"Is there ANYTHING that might happen

that would negatively impact

the work of the foundation
and me professionally?"

And he put his beer down
and looked me in the eye...

...and said, "Steve, you have NOTHING
to worry about.

We're going to have a good
ride on this.

This is going to be great."

And there is Armstrong.

He's not looking good, he's all over
his machine right now.

He doesn't look good, Phil. He should
not be riding so far down the group.

He's obviously having
a very hard day.

This is where you have to race alone
and Armstrong's gone.

A big move by Lance, this

and no reply coming at all
from Jan Ullrich.

Ullrich has got
no answer to this.

He's fooled everybody
in the Tour de France.

I never expected
Armstrong to do this.

He has ripped the field apart
and he is climbing now to the...

...and he was riding to win the Tour
de France.

Now are we seeing the foundations

of the man who will win the Tour
for the third time in Paris?

"Yes, that's the one I wanted
and I've got it."

I had been convinced for some time

that Armstrong worked
with Michele Ferrari.

I got the Italian police
to help me.

They got me evidence that Lance,

in the space of two years, spent 13
days in the town of Ferrara

and the only reason,
if you were Lance Armstrong,

for being in Ferrara, was to see
this doping doctor.

He had to do a press conference
on the rest day in Pau.

I think this is a clean tour.

And in that press conference,
16 questions go,

no questions about doping
and then bang,

first question is asked

and the doping questions
then come like a,

like in an avalanche.

And as soon as the question
turned to doping,

Lance did something quite strange.

I believe he's an honest man,

I believe he's a fair man
and I believe he's an innocent man.

He started fixing his gaze on me.

And even though it was some journalist
over here who asked the question,

Lance would refer to me
in his answer.

I've never denied the relationship.
Even to you.

Um...

People are not stupid.

They say, "Has Lance Armstrong
ever tested positive?" No.

"Has Lance Armstrong been tested?"
A lot.

But I found that
just wholly unconvincing.

Two weeks later,
David Walsh called up

and I'm like, "God, I,
I don't know what to say."

So I chose my words
as well as I could

and I just said, "I'm disappointed
he's seeing Ferrari."

And then David posed
the question, now,

"If he's clean, would you consider
this the greatest comeback

in the history of sport?"
And I said, "Absolutely."

And he said, "but what if he isn't?"

I said, "Then it would be
the greatest fraud."

After that comment came out,

our whole lives changed in an hour

after that was published.

We went out to dinner

and Lance, he said,
"Fucking LeMond.

His comments about Ferrari,

and how he's disappointed
that I'm working with Ferrari."

Lance flipped. You know, and at that
dinner it was vent session.

"Who does Greg think he is?
I'm going to destroy him",

all this kind of stuff.

And I said, "Yeah,
but I thought Ferrari's a BAD guy."

And he just looked at me
and he glared.

And he said,
"I'm going to fuck him over."

Lance returned to the US.

He was scheduled to throw

the opening game baseball
at Yankee Stadium.

And he was sitting in his hotel room
at the Four Seasons.

He calls Greg LeMond.

We were at bag claim,

Minneapolis airport,
I had pulled up outside...

...and the phone rang

and Greg says, "It's Lance."

He said, "Oh, come on,

your win in '89 was a miracle,
just like mine,

in '99", I said, whoa...

That's where you're wrong, buddy,
cos mine wasn't a miracle.

I worked my ass off,
I barely won by eight seconds.

- No miracle there.
- ...by eight seconds.

He said to Greg, "You're telling me
YOU never did EPO?"

Absolutely not. "Oh, come on -
everybody takes EPO."

And he mentioned drugs that I

never heard of.
Hemasist, er, Hemopure, PFC's.

He listed probably ten drugs
I'd never heard of.

"Is that what you think I'm on?"
I'm like, whoa, um...

You know, he was VICIOUS.

He said, "Well, if you want to throw
stones, I'll throw stones."

And he said, "I'll get people, I'll get ten
people to say you took EPO."

Holy shit.

And Greg...

just said, "I'm sorry, but if
anybody comes out saying I used EPO,

I'm going to know it came from you

and you paid 'em."

Cos I know that Steve was working
at Lance Armstrong Foundation,

I called him just to say, you know,
"This is what happened to me."

This is Greg LeMond calling.

He was clearly shaken.

And he proceeds over the course
of 45 minutes to an hour

telling me exactly what had just
transpired.

Including the threat.

The next day, I get
a call from Lance.

And he proceeds to tell

of his conversation with Greg.

He was out of control,
he was clearly drunk.

We've gotten reports back

that, "Oh, yeah, Greg had
a drug and alcohol problem."

I actually had a reporter
call and ask me one day,

if Greg had a heroin problem.

What was interesting

is Lance's version was completely
different than Greg's version

and it was certainly at that
moment in time I thought...

I have been made a fool of.

I packed my car and I drove
out of Texas

and the next day I resigned.

Absolutely, I had to learn
a lot about the illness

and I had to learn
a lot about my options.

Mm-hm. Did you ever consider
the option of giving up?

Oh, no.

That's great. That's great.

Because it's not an option, is it?

It's just not an option.

Tyler Hamilton left the team,

because Tyler was incredibly
ambitious

and he was resentful
of Lance's profile.

He was a... absolutely driven guy,
a bit like Lance,

had to win and Tyler thought the
only way that I can win the Tour

is to be in another team

and when I go and leave this team

I then am going to get a doping
programme

- just as good, if not better than Lance's.
- One, two...

There became more stresses,
you know, having to

work with my own
special doctor there in Spain,

having to organise those trips.

It wasn't the team handling it.

The easy part about the US Postal
Service cycling team

for me in terms of doping was it
was all kind of taken care of,

like, one-stop shopping.

Stuart O'Grady has moved
too far back

and there's been a mass pile-up
there, it was Tyler went down,

and the peloton completely
crashing on the line.

And if Tyler Hamilton left the team,
Lance needed

a young American guy, preferably,
to take Tyler's place.

Floyd was the obvious example.

He was talented,
he was gritty, he was tough

and he's saying to Johan,
I'll do whatever it takes.

We have to make sure that we're not in
a situation like Pyrenees, for example.

Floyd will remember that very well.
Floyd.

Thanks for pointing that out, yes.
I won't forget that any time soon.

You're 27 seconds faster than...

...and 40 seconds faster than...

Boys, come on, keep it together.
We're going to win it.

There was a train here
and it was dripping with gravy.

Here they are, a blue train.

And these guys were desperate to mop
up as much as they could

for themselves.

Because the financial
rewards were huge.

OK, OK, OK, OK!

This is the best team in the world
right now.

I saw what I deemed a huge fraud

being played out on a world stage

and there was no place,

no place to turn.

Journalists approached me

and some of them had got questions
they'd e-mailed me across

and stuff were very close
to what was going on.

All the peloton
were on Armstrong's side.

The sponsors are
on Armstrong's side.

The UCI were on Armstrong's side.

Everybody had a stake
in Lance being a success.

And of course anybody who
accused him

was deemed an enemy of the sport.

London sports writer,
David Walsh

accuses Armstrong of doping
in the book, LA Confidential.

The book, published only in France,

quotes Armstrong's former
massage therapist,

who claims she covered up
injection marks with make up.

I remember I was sweeping
my sitting room floor,

Sky Sports is on.

In the corner of my eye I can see
the ticker tape underneath it go,

and it says, "Former Armstrong
masseuse, Emma O'Reilly...

spills the beans", blah, blah,
blah. I'm thinking...

I have to say my first thought was, I am
going to get David Walsh and wring his neck.

I'll say one thing about the book

and especially since
our esteemed author is here...

In my view, I think extraordinary
accusations

must be followed up

with extraordinary proof.

And they have not come up with
extraordinary proof.

Why couldn't it just be proof,

that allegations must
be followed up by proof?

And what Lance was saying
is that, when you're an icon...

...who sits as high
in the firmament as I do,

you have to have extraordinary proof
to bring ME down.

And it was true.
What he was saying was right.

Different rules apply to the gods.

And I am a god.

Mr. Armstrong's legal team

was very concerned
about the book

and wanted to discredit David Walsh.

They knew one of the sources
was likely Betsy Andreu

and they wanted Betsy Andreu
and Frankie Andreu

to distance themselves from the book
and say Mr. Walsh had it wrong.

Lance told me that his two,
his two agents,

Bill Stapleton and
Bart Knaggs wanted to talk with me.

So I was like, OK.

You know, I knew what was coming, I
knew what it was going to be about.

He asked me, he said,
"Shall I tape the conversation?"

I said, "Hell, yeah, because
they'll say it never happened."

We met in the parking lot
of the Tour de France start

after everybody had, you know,
all the riders had left and so,

I put a tape recorder in my pocket
and I tape recorded everything.

Cos I didn't trust
these guys, you know.

Still don't trust them.

They talked about how bad it would
be for the sport

if Lance gets in trouble
and all this comes out.

They wanted her to sign an affidavit

saying she would never go against Lance Armstrong
for the rest of her life. Something crazy.

You can imagine
when I brought that up to Betsy,

"So, Bets, they want you to, er,
sign something

"saying you'll never sue or go
against Lance Armstrong," and it was,

it was just a bunch of cuss words.

Yeah! Because I saw what they were
doing. It was ridiculous.

OK, first of all Frankie
loses his job

because he won't get
on a doping programme and now...

...they are trying to get me
to sign something

to support Lance?

Whom I believe is cheating?
It's not going to happen.

There's no argument who the
champion is of the Tour de France.

And when I refused...

It's been four times now,
how do you differentiate...

It just was not good
for Frankie's career.

Thank you, Lance. Thank you.

The yellow jersey
is owned by only one man,

as it has been for the last
eight days.

Lance Armstrong benefited from SCA
and Bob Hammond paying

an enormous
amount of prize money for him,

winning races that Lance
Armstrong swore he won cleanly.

...as he races the line
to the victory...

Total amount to Lance if he won all
of the Tour de France races

came close to almost $10 million.

Lance, well done.
Back for more next year?

Ha, ha. Probably.

When somebody consistently
goes against the odds,

the evidence is that perhaps

the odds aren't
what you think they are

and something else is present

and quite often that's cheating.

He is down the ramp for
the last time in his career.

I've decided that the Tour de France
will be my last race

as a professional cyclist.

It is the picture
we will never see again.

A rider in yellow
we've come to know since 1999.

You won't believe what the
crowd are doing here.

They are leaping in every direction

as Lance Armstrong brings it to
an end as a winner.

History in the making,
he now retires

seven times a winner
of the Tour De France.

Lance Armstrong!

The last thing I'll say
for the people

that don't believe in cycling,

the cynics and the skeptics,

I'm sorry for you,

I'm sorry you can't dream big,

and I'm sorry you don't
believe in miracles,

but this is one hell of a race.

This is a great sporting event
and you should believe.

And, er...

Vive La Tour. For ever. Thank you.

Good morning, this begins
video tape number one,

in the arbitration matter
of Lance Armstrong et Al

versus SCA Promotions
Incorporated et Al.

Bob Hamman kind of basically felt
that he'd been duped,

he'd already paid Lance, I think four
and a half million at that time,

he baulked at paying the
last $5 million bonus.

Mr. Armstrong, my name
is Jeff Tillotson, I represent...

It became a law suit and over the
course of about a year and a half,

we took depositions,
which is sworn testimony,

we ploughed through records.

The day before the SCA deposition,
I received a phone call from him.

"Just calling to see
how you're doing."

I hadn't talked to the guy in like,
four years, you know

and saying, "Ah, you know
I heard this is,

Kathy LeMond said this,
that Betsy said this."

He was prying for information
and questions

and trying to say, "Hey, I'm here."

I'm right at your door.

And then he showed up
at the door step.

So when I showed up,

I saw Lance walking in the hallway

and I thought, "Oh, my gosh."

She was so nervous,
she was literally shaking,

because there she was,
to give a deposition

and Lance Armstrong
had flown from Austin,

on his private jet to watch her
testify about him

and she knew exactly what kind
of message he was trying to send.

There was a long table
in the conference room

and it was me and my lawyer

and Lance.

- I was furious.
- Why?

So I saw what Lance was doing,
how he was on his BlackBerry,

how he was on his computer.

Because...

It WASN'T a lie.

I'm not going to say somebody is
lying when they are not lying.

She was the first witness
who effectively said,

"I don't care what happens to me.
I'm going to tell the truth."

First, tell me where you were.

Michel's. It's a restaurant
in Villefranche.

I had never been in a
deposition before,

so when I didn't remember something,

a restaurant, I had leaned over
and I asked Lance.

- It is Villefranche, isn't it, Lance?
- Objection. Well...

"You can't do that, hold it,
hold it, you can't do that."

So it was, I was just answering
questions honestly.

I just would like you to recount
what took place

in the Indiana University
Hospital...

The doctor asked him
a couple of questions

and then came the question,
have you ever...

...taken any performance-enhancing
drugs?

And Lance said, yes. The doctor
said, "What were they?" And he said,

"EPO, growth hormone, cortisone,
steroids and testosterone."

Did any medical person ask you

while you were at the Indiana
University Hospital

whether you had ever used

- any sort of performance-enhancing drugs or substances?
- No.

Can you offer,
can you help explain to me

why Miss Andreu would make
that story up?

Well, she said in her deposition
she hates me.

I don't know how the doctor phrased the question,
but Lance's response was that he had taken EPO

and testosterone...

...and growth hormone

and cortisone.

Why would Mr. Andreu say the same
things, if you know?

Probably to support
his wife, which...

I don't know if you're
married or not, but... I am.

...sometimes is... required.

So your testimony that Mr. Andreu
was also lying when he said

- that he heard you say those things
regarding your prior use?
- 100%.

- But I feel for him.
- What do you mean by that?

I think he's trying
to back up his old lady.

Frankie Andreu was under

extremely difficult circumstances
at that particular point in time,

all of which was a result
of Lance Armstrong.

Did Mr. Armstrong ever tell you
during that time period

that he definitely
was not going to use EPO

and no-one else should use EPO?

No.

Did he indicate to you
that he was going to use EPO

- or consider using EPO?
- No.

He said openly and to the public
that Betsy was crazy.

They implied behind the scenes
that Betsy wasn't believable

and perhaps unstable.
Everything you can possibly think of

as a way to hurt someone,
they basically employed.

And what is it you told Frankie
after leaving the room?

I...

His modus operandi, which
was, "Don't attack the message."

"Attack the messenger."

So, if people don't know me,
people are going to say,

"Well, wait a minute,
who is this woman?

Her husband stopped racing early. If
he was so good, why did he do that?

If Lance is dirty, then why hasn't
the governing body caught him?

Why does USA Cycling back him?
Why do his sponsors back him?

Why does he keep getting
more and more money from him?

How come none of these doctors,
who allegedly heard

what happened in the hospital room,
how come they're remaining quiet?

How come nobody has backed her up
for that hospital room?

Look at his legions of fans.

He has a foundation fighting cancer.

What is this woman doing
beside raising her own kids?

His problem
was never with Frankie."

And after Mr. Armstrong
told the doctor

he was using certain performance
enhancing drugs, did your husband

ever tell you, "That's wrong,
he hasn't done those drugs?"

Not your husband, but Mr. Armstrong?

No.

How could it have taken place

when I've never taken
performance-enhancing drugs?

- How could that have happened?
- That's my point. It's not just simply

- you don't recall?
- How many times do I have to say it?

I'm just trying to make sure
your testimony is clear.

Well, if it can't be any clearer
than, "I've never taken drugs,"

then incidents like that
could never have happened.

OK. How clear is that?

These are things that are so
devious, if untrue, but so powerful

when you use with people
that makes you a compelling liar.

I'll give you an example.
Bad liar - Richard Nixon.

Sweaty, looks suspicious,
said goofy things

when people challenged him,
"I'm not a crook."

Great liar - Lance Armstrong.

"I never doped. I passed every test.
And anyone who challenges me,

I'm currently suing
and are proving they're lying."

That's a good liar.

Greg, who...

I know has serious drinking
and drug problems,

was clearly intoxicated,
yelling, screaming.

It started off as, you know, "Hey,
Greg, I thought we were friends."

"Friends?!
What do you mean friends?!"

He said, "Well, if you want to throw
stones... I can throw stones..."

He went after his reputation,
his livelihood

- and his way of life.
- Well... let me see...

being called potentially the biggest
fraud in the history of the sport...

That was a little bit upsetting.

He's set out to destroy me
every step of the way.

I lost, er, a company that did
$20 million in sales in the US.

Oh, he, you know, he said,

"The sport is full of crooks
and thieves and liars."

I've been at trade shows,
where dealers that said...

I would see and that I knew
and they wouldn't even...

They wouldn't even look at me.

He didn't like that either.

How could this be?
How could it be that my career

collide with this guy and then
he takes everything away from me?

We also wanted to believe...

...in Lance.

And it was hard to find
out that it wasn't...

I don't know why I'm crying, but it
was really hard to find out that...

this was going on.

It's been awful stressful.

If I'd known for a second,
I wouldn't have done it.

They were very, very mean and
very dismissive of Emma O'Reilly

as they were really almost of all the women

that testified against Mr. Armstrong.

Afraid that we were going
to out her as a...

All these things she said. As a
whore or whatever. I don't know.

- Primarily...
- You don't talk about people like that!

And also to...
By calling me those names,

calling me basically
an alcoholic prostitute,

it's just attacking me personally,

but it's not addressing the
points that I brought up.

You know, and that's probably
what upset me the most over it all.

Raise your right hand. Do you
solemnly state your testimony

- shall be the truth, whole truth
and nothing but the truth?
- I do.

We had been told
that Stephanie McIlvain

would testify that, yes, she heard
Mr. Armstrong admit to drug use,

so we went out to depose her
in California

at her place of business,
which was Oakley.

- What kind of things do you do?
- I take care of, er...

Well, I take care of Lance Armstrong
and cycling also.

She called us up
and she was in tears.

"Lance called me!
Lance is pissed!"

And I thought, "Oh, my God!"

I said, "You're going to lie,
Stephanie."

"You're going to lie
to keep your job."

Stephanie needed that job.

Her husband worked for Oakley.
HE needed the job.

She's got a young son
who's autistic.

They were in an extremely
difficult position.

Where you ever in a hospital room,

or other part of the hospital
with Mr. Armstrong,

- where he said anything about
performance-enhancing drugs?
- No.

Er, do you have any recollection
of any doctor in your presence

asking Mr. Armstrong, er,
if he used in the past

- any performance-enhancing drugs
or substances?
- No.

Betsy was going to be thrown under
the bus and I finally told her.

I said, "Betsy...
I recorded her and I have a tape."

I'm doing well.

I agree.

This recording was done
well before her deposition,

so all we could conclude from
that was someone got to her.

Because she clearly changed
her testimony.

Once I made that recording public
to the Lance Armstrong side,

saying, "I think you've
monkeyed with this witness,"

literally all hell broke loose.

I said, "You lied, didn't
you?" I just had this bad feeling.

"You lied, didn't you, Stephanie?"

"Pat was told,
if I make the company look bad,

that we'll both lose our jobs. We
can't afford to lose our jobs, Betsy.

We don't have college degrees.

Where are we going to go?
What are we going to do?"

She made her bed.
She made her decision.

That's a foul! Wow!

So, our relationship was over.

If you have a doping offence,
or you test positive,

it goes without saying that you're
fired, from all of your contracts,

not just the team, but there's...

numerous contracts that I have
that would all go away.

- Sponsorship agreements, for example?
- All of them! And...

The faith... of all the cancer
survivors around the world,

so everything I do off of the bike
would go away, too.

And don't think for a second
I don't understand that.

Either everyone who I had talked to,

and all the evidence I had gathered,
and all the scientists

and other people were liars,
which I found frankly impossible,

or Lance approached basically
a clinical sociopath.

Someone able to do wrong
without remorse,

er, or care as to who
they hurt in the process.

Er, the former was unpalatable.
The latter, er, was scary.

That we were litigating with someone
who would do anything to prevail.

It's not about money for me.

Everything. It's also about the
faith that people have put in me

over the years, so all of that
would be erased, so I don't need it

to say in a contract,
"You're fired if you test positive."

That's not as important

as losing the support of
hundreds of millions of people.

That's an easy question.

The SCA case was settled on really
what it said in the contract.

Lance has always followed
the rules of the Tour de France

and he's won seven times.

Every time he wins,
and he's a certified winner,

he's followed the rules

and Tailwind has had
an obligation to pay him.

After all, he was still officially
the Tour de France winner.

That was really the question and,
if SCA went forward with that case,

it would have been a big risk.

So they ended up paying
Armstrong $7 million

to settle it.

We just paid.

Lance slipped past the gates

and... said,

"Time to fold your tent, boys."

Floyd Landis used to ride alongside

Lance Armstrong on the
US Postal Service for three years.

They've split up in a little
bit of, er, disenchantment.

Well, Floyd Landis
has launched an attack.

He's trying to ride all of these men
off. Surely with eight minutes...

...he is one of the great riders
of this race once again.

This is one of the most incredible
performances I've seen. It's fine...

Is it nice to come out
of the shadows of Armstrong

in such a golden style?

Yeah! Again, I've said many times

I was one of the lucky ones
to be part of his seven wins.

Yet another doping scandal hits
the very top of the Tour de France.

Floyd, right here!
'Yes, the winner

of this year's prestigious
cycling race, Floyd Landis,

has tested positive
for testosterone.

It's the first time in the Tour de
France's history that a winner...

When I look back now, nobody
on that team was ever positive.

No positives. The moment they left,
every rider that was a competitor,

that Armstrong didn't like,
boom, they're positive.

Remember, it's not a race...

It's been an amazing year.

I stood up here last year
and everybody at their table

had little pieces of yellow
silicon sitting there.

And somewhere along the way,
50 million of them were sold.

Um...

Woo!

What showed up in your sample?

Nothing.

- Were you doping at the Tour de France?
- No.

I told Frankie, "I can't believe
nobody's ever asked you

whether or not you've ever done
anything or tried anything.

But if somebody does, I'm not
going to be one of the wives

who stand by you as you lie.
I'm not going to do it."

I raced for 12 years
as a professional.

I used EPO at a...
at a certain moment.

There are many people out there that
worry - whether they have cancer

in their families or not -
that cancer is going to get them.

It's the scariest disease there is.

- And we think we're making a difference.
- I agree.

One of my biggest accomplishments
was raising my son Lance.

I am so proud to be the mom
of Lance Armstrong.

We will lose more than 560,000
Americans to cancer this year.

Landis was stripped of his title and
banned from the sport for two years.

It's time for a government
that wages a war against cancer

as aggressive as the war
cancer wages against us.

We will beat this dreaded disease,
and we will win.

The longer it went on,
the more impressed I am that Lance

could maintain a story like that
that was nearly 100% fabricated.

And still live
such an obnoxious life.

And not even try to hide it.

I mean, I'm a guy
that he's never really even met...

Mr. President, you've been
a long-time friend of mine.

Thank you. Thank you for being
a friend and for allowing us

to be here to talk about
this critical, er, issue.

As some of you may or may not know,

I've decided
to race my bicycle again.

Um...

It...

Lance came back,
because he couldn't stay away.

Please welcome seven-time Tour de
France champion Lance Armstrong.

Why couldn't he stay away?
Because it's like

the oldest theme in Hollywood
that you've ever come across.

The jewel thief,
the bank robber, the assassin.

They do their jobs brilliantly.
They win every time.

They kill all the people
they should kill,

they get all the jewels
they should get,

they get all the money
from the bank they should get.

Somebody comes and says,
"One more job."

Just one more little turn
of the carousel.

And they can't resist.

Because that was them living
like they'd never lived before

or they will never live again.

I cannot guarantee a victory
this time, I'm not... What?

Please stop your whining.

I'd made several requests
to interview Lance,

especially when he announced

that he was going to be different
this time with the media,

that he was going to be open
and transparent

and there wasn't going to be any of
the stuff that had gone on before

where he had been very, very difficult.

And I baited him.

Lance, we've spoken recently
about the return of Ivan Basso

and Floyd Landis after
their suspensions.

What is it about these dopers
that you seem to admire so much?

Excuse me? What is your name again?

My name is Paul Kimmage,
I work for The Sunday Times.

I asked for an interview,
but I didn't get one.

Right, and just as a little preface,
I might just clear up one thing.

The reason you didn't get it, Paul,
I wanted to make sure that was you,

because I don't know
what you look like...

When I decided to come back for
what I think is a very noble reason,

you said, "Folks, the cancer has
been in remission for four years,

but our cancer has now returned."

Meaning me.

I am here to fight this disease.

I am here so that
I don't have to deal with it,

you don't have to deal with it,

none of us have to deal with it, my
children don't have to deal with it.

But yet you said
that I am the cancer.

So, I think it goes without saying,

no, we're not going to sit down
and do an interview.

And I don't think
anybody in this room

would sit down for that interview.

You are not worth the chair
that you're sitting on

with a statement like that.

With a disease that touches
everybody around the world.

Getting back to the
Tour Of California...

Armstrong,
shades of his seven victories

in the Tour de France, he's got
happy memories of the Pyrenees

and they're all coming back now.

When Floyd has lost all his money,
fighting his ban,

and he calls up Johan Bruyneel
and says,

"Look, will you get me on your team?
I need a place."

And Lance and Bruyneel,
both kindred spirits

in terms of having
no emotional intelligence,

decide they don't want to
have anything to do with Floyd -

he's just a loser, he got caught.

They don't realise that
they're... they're actually

handling a ticking bomb here.

Floyd has offered them the chance
to diffuse the bomb.

To just take out that little pin
or whatever,

give him a little, small job
in the team, everything is OK.

They tell him to get lost and
the bomb blows up in their faces.

And when he saw Armstrong,

who he knew from the first day
he'd entered the sport was doped,

who had shown Floyd how to dope

and all he sees is this
fucking shit everywhere,

"Hope rides again."
"The Great God."

"The Jesus of cycling
is coming back."

And all the spectators are
getting down on bended knee

and he's thinking, "This is not
right. This sticks in my throat."

"I fucking am going to
sort this out."

At least now I've confirmed
that there's nothing else to lose.

Nothing. There's nothing in it for me
in cycling.

There's no team for me. There's...

No matter what I do, it's going to
be worse and worse until I leave.

Eventually, the levee breaks.

Tonight, Landis and
others once close to Lance

go on camera for the first time
for our special report -

"Did Lance Cheat?"

At some point people have to tell

their kids that Santa Claus
isn't real.

I hate to be the guy to do it,
but...

...it's just not real.

You're saying Lance Armstrong
is a liar?

Yes, I suppose if that's
the question, yes.

We have somebody that's been
under oath several times

with a completely different version.

You have somebody
that has written a book

with a completely different version.

You have somebody that took
people's money for their defence,

some would say a million dollars,
with a completely different version.

He said he has nothing, he's got
no proof. It's his word versus ours.

We like our word, we like where
we stand, we like our credibility.

As Lance Armstrong prepares for his
final weekend at the Tour de France,

a federal investigation
into alleged doping by him

and his former team threatens
to tarnish his golden image.

The investigation was sparked
by allegations by former friend

and team-mate Floyd Landis.

At the end of July, I got a
phone call from Jeff Novitzky

and one of the first questions
I asked him was,

"What's taken you so
long to call me?"

It was scary, because that whole,

"This is Jeff Novitzky,
federal agent..."

It put the holy terror
of God in you.

Novitzky was able to bring
these guys into a room.

He would open up his coat and,

"Oh, sorry I didn't mean you
to see my gun..."

That's what they do. And then he
takes his sheriff's badge out,

drops it on the table, in case
you forget that he's a cop,

and then he says to you,

"You know, if you lie to us,

it'll be perjury.

And we will know you're lying
to us,

because of all we know
about this case.

And then we will go after you and
you'll end up doing prison time."

A subpoena means you come in.
There's no question.

You go in and you tell the truth
in front of the Grand Jury.

No lawyer by your side.

I probably told them
more stuff, more detail,

than what I had revealed
to anybody else before.

You know, the information kind
of started trickling out of me

and then, after 15 minutes or so,
it just poured out of me.

I don't think they were expecting
any kind of testimony like they got.

Lance Armstrong
didn't appreciate that.

A few months later, I was out
at dinner with some friends

and... he must have had eyes on me,
because he had people contact him

and let him know where I was,
and he, you know, approached me,

and tried to intimidate me.

He said he was going to
make my life a living hell -

both in the courtroom
and out of the courtroom.

Lance was really pissed
that Greg questioned why

he was working with Ferrari.

He helped call the shots.
Yes, he doped himself.

If he didn't win the Tour,

someone else that was doped
would have won the Tour.

I really felt happy at that moment,
because I thought,

that's it. There is no way back now

because Floyd had given
chapter and verse

and I thought the tide
was now irreversible.

Lance Armstrong handed me
some testosterone patches.

It's just a little patch
that you put on your skin.

They can't say that. Nobody is
that conniving.

Nobody is that good,

to try and get away with something
for 17, 18, 19 years, no way.

No.

If you think he was facing jail,

he had to have been scared to death.

He called every single famous,

political favour

he could possibly pull in.

I had just woken up,
I'd switched on my phone.

My brother had direct messaged
me on Twitter and saying,

"WTF, the Feds' case
has been dropped."

When you want to give news that
you don't want anybody to notice,

you put it out at a time
when everybody is distracted

by somebody else.

This news was dropped late
on a Friday afternoon

on Super Bowl weekend,
when America goes into party mode.

And Lance Armstrong,
for one weekend,

ceases to be relevant.

Obama was running for re-election

and it wouldn't have looked good
to go after the American hero

who still had a lot of supporters.

More Americans entered
the workforce...

It goes to show you the power
that Armstrong has.

He got a federal investigation
shut down,

despite having all that
information out there

and all that evidence out there.

I was not proud to be an American at the
time.

I was so disappointed in
the whole system, you know.

That, you know, this corruption
can happen and, you know,

favours can be granted.

Travis Tygart picks up the baton.

He says, "I'm going to
ask all these cyclists

to come and be interviewed by me."

This was not just Lance Armstrong

getting away with doping
for a few years.

This was something by far bigger
and greater than just that -

they took it to an entirely
different level

and no other team, right,
won seven Tour de Frances.

And all the glory
and all the profits

and all the sponsorships
that went along with that.

He was the boss.
The evidence is clear.

He was one of the ring leaders
of this conspiracy

that pulled off this grand heist,

using tens of millions
of taxpayer dollars,

that defrauded millions of sports
fans and his fellow competitors.

Lance immediately went on the
attack, immediately sued them in his

home court and immediately
started saying,

"You saw it as a terrible, bad,
kangaroo court organisation."

I thought, "Here we go again.

He's going to bloody them up.
He's going to walk away from this."

Good morning, everybody,
welcome to the Team RadioShack bus...

Almost at every turn,

the lobbyists for Armstrong and
his criminal defence attorney

and others wanted to bankrupt us
and take us down.

- The boss.
- How are you? Good morning.

Whether it was claiming to the
world media we had not authority or

we were on witch hunts or the
jurisdiction didn't rest with us,

there were numerous efforts by them

to ensure this
information never got out.

Your investigations showed
that there were personal threats

made against riders who had
decided to come clean.

- I wonder if there were any threats against you?
- There were, Scott.

These threats came from where? / E-mails, letters.
Anonymous? / Yeah.

Can you remember any of the lines
from the e-mails or the letters?

The worst was probably
putting a bullet in my head.

- Did you take that seriously?
- Absolutely.

Turned it over to the FBI to
investigate it. Which they're doing.

A new report from the US
Anti-Doping Agency reveals...

Just months after
federal prosecutors

dropped their investigation,
the US Anti-Doping Agency says

they now have proof that
the seven-time winner

of the Tour de France...

From our end, it was never personal.

In fact, you know, we gave
him the same opportunity

to come in and be part of
the solution.

1,000 pages of evidence

provided by the agency
include first-hand accounts,

scientific documents...

Lance believed that he was
bulletproof, that he was invincible,

that they could
bring down the Floyds,

the Tylers,
they could bring down anybody.

"But you can't bring down me,

because I am too big
to be brought down."

I thought in light of recent events,
I ought to reintroduce myself.

My name is Lance Armstrong.
I'm a cancer survivor.

I've been asked to come up here and
talk about my story of survivorship.

I'm a father of five and, yes,
I won the Tour de France seven times.

UCI will ban Lance Armstrong
from cycling

and UCI will strip him of
his seven Tour de France titles.

Lance Armstrong has no
place in cycling.

I don't have anything to worry
about.

Nobody needs to cry for me.
I'm going to be great.

Are you doing something to take
your mind off the news this week?

I'm more at ease now than
I have been in ten years.

What surprised me was how
quickly it fell apart.

This was a day
we could not have imagined.

Nike has fired Lance Armstrong

over allegations he
was doping during races.

And it first hit me when Nike
announced they were fleeing.

Over the last ten years,

he's made more than an
estimated $100 million.

What am I on? I'm on my bike,
busting my ass six hours a day.

What are YOU on?

And then, almost in rapid
succession, everyone left him.

Anheuser-Busch, FRS sports drinks,
Trek bicycles and Giro helmets

all dropped today like dominoes.

And suddenly, in a matter
of days, it collapsed.

Oh, my golly, the category tonight.

Paul, take a guess what you think
the category might be tonight.

Well, could it...? Something about Lance
Armstrong?

Nice going. Nice going!

Honest to God, who cares
about cy...? No-one.

We were pulling
into the driveway and,

right when we pulled into the
driveway, Betsy's phone rings

and Betsy turned to me
and she goes, "It's Lance."

And our daughter in the back said,

"Is it really him?
Is it really him?"

He apologised. Apologised
for everything he'd done.

And I said, "You know, it must be...
It's got to be a tough phone call

for you to make..." I said,
"You know,

I appreciate it," and I said,

"I'm sure you're going through hell
for the last month and a half."

I said, "But no...

That I'd been going through hell
for ten years with this shit."

The Lance in that phone call
was a Lance I've never, ever...

It was a Lance I didn't know.

He really, genuinely seemed contrite.

Um...

And he apologised.

He said he had done a lot of bad
things to a lot of good people.

I said, "Lance, you better admit
that that hospital room happened."

Now the worldwide exclusive
Oprah and Lance Armstrong.

So let's start with the questions
that people around the world

have been waiting for you to answer

and for now I'd just like
a yes or no.

Did you ever take banned substances
to enhance your cycling performance?

Yes.

- Yes or no, was one of those banned
substances EPO?
- Yes.

I was physically sick.

Did you ever blood dope

- or use blood transfusions to enhance
your cycling performance?
- Yes.

It was sort of like an old Mike Tyson
fight,

that by the time you sat down
in your ringside seat,

he'd already knocked the
guy out and it was over.

Did you ever use any other banned
substances like testosterone,

cortisone or human growth hormone?

Yes.

I was, like, holy shit. Wow.

Wow!

Yeah, am I jealous and bitter
and vindictive now?

In all seven of your
Tour de France victories,

- did you ever take banned substances or blood dope?
- Yes.

Those five yeses in one fell swoop,

just wiped out a generation
of cyclists.

Watching the show,
for me, was like...

I never thought those words would
come out of Lance Armstrong's mouth.

It was unbelievable.

Was Betsy telling the truth
about the Indiana hospital

- overhearing you in 1996?
- Erm...

I'm not going to take that on.
I'm laying down on that one.

Was Betsy lying?

Erm...

And he dropped the ball.

He dropped the ball.

- She asked me and I asked her not to talk about...
- What you said?

...the details of the call. It was a
confidential, personal conversation.

It was 40 minutes long.

So again, it was classic Lance.

His way out, throughout that whole
interview, he... he just used me.

He called to apologise so that when
he went on Oprah he could say,

"Oh, yeah, I've reached out
to people to apologise.

I'm a changed man.
I'm trying to be better."

It played into his hand.
It played into his game.

My stepfather called me and said,

"Your mom's having a
really hard time."

And I saw my mom...

...and I thought, "Oh...

..this woman's a wreck."

What has been the financial cost?
Have you lost everything?

I don't like thinking about it.

But that was a...

I don't know,
that was a $75 million day.

- Gone. Gone.
- Gone.

Do you think he
will ever come clean?

No, I don't think fully.

Partly because it would
burn too many people.

He's protected Bruyneel,
he's protected Ferrari,

he's protected Thom Weisel,
he's protected Bill Stapleton

and he's protected, I believe,
the medical people at that hospital.

It's really not about him,
but about the people behind him.

They put this team together
that had knowledge of the doping,

that went out and
then sold sponsorships

to the tune of about 30+ million
federal dollars from citizens

of the United States of America.
It's alleged fraud.

I don't know Lance Armstrong now.

The man I knew in 1993,
I had a blast with.

A great friend and it's hard for me

to talk about because of
how much hell he put me through

and my wife through.

He's like the guy who robs a bank

and then says, "Oops, forgot to
frisk the tellers for any money

they might have in their pockets."

So he essentially wanted it all.

Most of the cheats pretty much
stop at the water's edge.

Lance didn't.

I had it. And then I just...

Things got too big.
Things got too crazy.

What Lance never had
was the truth...

...which is more powerful
than the corrupt athlete.

It's an epic story.

Time flies, huh?

Who would have thought?