notice how these kook's jurn's hiding in 'their" compound ? ...we all live in compounds hehehe ...have the balls to write something ,anything honestly !!! ...Oops they'd lose their job ? .....just read/follow the "company" line ;0 shills. fakes.phonies,no balls in the nut sack,pussy's ....have some pride! ...hehe compound ! haha ..........how bout moats.fort-dress -is ;0 ... " O "..u where a bad boy " L " , um sorry fer what i did & what i becum ;0 ...(inside his head) u fat ugly bitch go fuck yer self,if it weren't fer the "powers" that "b" makin me do this freak show shit hehehe ----i'd run U & yer nit-wit douche bag buds over with my bike :) ummmmmm ......".L" , & I know NOW what a mistake it was! & um sorry ;0 http://news.yahoo.com/lance-armstrongs-final-preparations-oprah-interview-few-miles-092930843.html
After a federal investigation of the cyclist was dropped without charges being brought last year, USADA stepped in with an investigation of its own. The agency deposed 11 former teammates and accused Armstrong of masterminding a complex and brazen drug program that included steroids, blood boosters and a range of other performance-enhancers.
After he was stripped of his Tour titles, Armstrong defiantly tweeted a picture of himself on a couch at home with all seven of the yellow leader's jerseys on display in frames behind him. But the preponderance of evidence in the USADA report and pending legal challenges on several fronts apparently forced him to change tactics dramatically. And he still faces legal challenges.
Lance Armstrong's final preparations for Oprah interview include a few miles of roadwork
By | Associated Press
AUSTIN, Texas - As days of preparations dwindled to hours before his blockbuster interview with Oprah Winfrey, Lance Armstrong
went out for a training run and then retreated behind the stone walls
of his Austin compound to huddle with a handful of close advisers.
After more than a decade of denying that he doped to win the Tour de France
seven times, Armstrong was scheduled to sit down Monday for what has
been trumpeted as a "no-holds barred," 90-minute, question-and-answer
session with Winfrey. He is expected to reverse course and apologize, as
well as offer a limited confession about his role as the head of a
long-running scheme to dominate the prestigious bike race with the aid
of performance-enhancing drugs. Winfrey and her crew will film the
interview at Armstrong's home and broadcast it Thursday on the Oprah Winfrey Network.
If he was feeling any pressure,
Armstrong hardly showed it during a jog under bright skies Sunday, even
as members of his legal team began arriving one-by-one at his home
nearby.
"I'm calm, I'm at ease and ready
to speak candidly," he told The Associated Press, but declined to reveal
how he would answer questions about the scandal that has shadowed his
career like an angry storm cloud.
Armstrong was stripped of all
seven Tour titles last year in the wake of a voluminous U.S. Anti-Doping
Agency report that portrayed him as a ruthless competitor, willing to
go to any lengths to win the prestigious race. U.S. Anti-Doping Agency
chief executive Travis Tygart labeled the doping regimen allegedly
carried out by the U.S. Postal Service team that Armstrong once led,
"the most sophisticated, professionalized and successful doping program
that sport has ever seen."
Yet Armstrong looked like just another runner getting in his roadwork
when he talked to the AP, wearing a red jersey and black shorts,
sunglasses and a white baseball cap pulled down to his eyes. Leaning
into a reporter's car on the shoulder of a busy Austin road, he seemed
unfazed by the attention and the international news crews that made
stops at his home. He cracked a few jokes about all the reporters vying
for his attention, then added, "But now I want to finish my run" and
took off down the road.
The interview with Winfrey will be Armstrong's first public response to the USADA report. A person with knowledge of the situation told the AP on Saturday that Armstrong will give a limited confession
and apologize. He is not expected to provide a detailed account about
his involvement, nor address in depth many of the specific allegations
in the more than 1,000-page USADA report.
In a text to the AP on Saturday, Armstrong said: "I told her
(Winfrey) to go wherever she wants and I'll answer the questions
directly, honestly and candidly. That's all I can say."After a federal investigation of the cyclist was dropped without charges being brought last year, USADA stepped in with an investigation of its own. The agency deposed 11 former teammates and accused Armstrong of masterminding a complex and brazen drug program that included steroids, blood boosters and a range of other performance-enhancers.
After he was stripped of his Tour titles, Armstrong defiantly tweeted a picture of himself on a couch at home with all seven of the yellow leader's jerseys on display in frames behind him. But the preponderance of evidence in the USADA report and pending legal challenges on several fronts apparently forced him to change tactics dramatically. And he still faces legal challenges.
Former teammate Floyd Landis, who
was stripped of the 2006 Tour de France title for doping, has filed a
federal whistle-blower lawsuit that accused Armstrong of defrauding the U.S. Postal Service. The Justice Department has yet to decide whether it will join the suit as a plaintiff.
The London-based Sunday Times
also is suing Armstrong to recover about $500,000 it paid him to settle a
libel lawsuit. On Sunday, the newspaper took out a full-page ad in the
Chicago Tribune, offering Winfrey suggestions on what questions to ask
Armstrong during their talk. Dallas-based SCA Promotions, which tried to
deny Armstrong a promised bonus for a Tour de France win, has
threatened to bring yet another lawsuit seeking to recover more than
$7.5 million an arbitration panel awarded the cyclist in that dispute.
The lawsuit most likely to be
influenced by a confession might be the Sunday Times case. Potential
perjury charges stemming from Armstrong's sworn testimony in the 2005
arbitration fight would not apply because of the statute of limitations.
Armstrong was not deposed during the federal investigation that was
closed last year.
Many of his sponsors dropped
Armstrong in the wake of the USADA report — at the cost of tens of
millions of dollars — and soon after, he left the board of the
Livestrong cancer-fighting charity he founded in 1997. Armstrong is
still said to be worth about $100 million.
Livestrong might be one reason
Armstrong has decided to come forward with an apology and limited
confession. The charity supports cancer patients and still faces an
image problem because of its association with Armstrong. He also may be
hoping a confession would allow him to return to competition in the
elite triathlon or running events he participated in after his cycling
career.
World Anti-Doping Code rules
state his lifetime ban cannot be reduced to less than eight years. WADA
and U.S. Anti-Doping officials could agree to reduce the ban further
depending on what information Armstrong provides and his level of
co-operation. USADA officials said in a recent interview that the
cyclist's co-operation could well initiate a "pathway to redemption."
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AP Sports Columnist Jim Litke contributed to this report.
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