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- [Narrator] 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.

- [Narrator] Would you please
give us your full name?

- [Lance] Lance Armstrong.

- [Narrator] Do 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.

- [Narrator] And that penalties

of perjury attach to this deposition

just like they would to a
court of law proceeding.

- Of course.

- [Narrator] 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?

- [Narrator] Cortisone,
I'm sorry, I apologize.

- Because they're different.

- [Narrator] I understand, believe me.

- One is actually anabolic
and one is actually catabolic.

- [Narrator] Know what
they've done with the money?

- [Lance] I just told you I don't know.

- [Narrator] Was it earmarked?

- Which part of I don't
know do you not understand?

- [Narrator] 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?

- [Narrator] 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.

(exciting music)

- 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.

- [Narrator] 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 favorite 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.

- [Announcer] Roberto Gaggioli.

- It was my race, every year

I was preparing for that race.

- [Announcer] And Frankie
Andreu of Motorola

who has slowed down the brakes.

- [Narrator] I remember Lance

made a deal with some Italians.

Stephen Swart, Davis Phinney, Tommy,

the team have this deal with Lance.

- [Announcer] 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.

- [Announcer] 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.

- [Announcer] 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.

(cheering)

- [Announcer] 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.

- [Announcer] 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.

- [Announcer] Lance has rolled the dice

and come up a winner.

- [Lance] 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 dollars.

Cash.

- [Narrator] 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.

- [Interviewer] 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 eight this morning

and the sun is still shining.

- [Narrator] The Tour de France

was really hard.

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

You sacrifice a lot to be successful.

(car horn beeps)

- 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!

- [Announcer] 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!

- [Announcer] 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.

- [David] 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 six or eight 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 mom,

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.

- [Announcer] 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,

(applause)

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.

(patriotic music)

- [Announcer] 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.

- [Announcer] Armstrong is
about to get caught Indurain.

You can see Indurain will just fly by him,

and it's gonna be very
strange for Lance Armstrong.

- One of the riders was told

what was going on in the Spanish team.

The rider just said, Pff,
you guys have no chance.

We're doing EPO, growth
hormone, testosterone.

You'll never make it.

- [Announcer] He comes up to
the line, one hour 50 and 58,

two 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!

- [Greg] We're talking about
the speed of the peloton

and this new drug EPO

and talking about Dr Ferrari.

- [Narrator] Lance would have
known Ferrari by reputation.

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

- [Greg] 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.

- [Announcer] 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 40 miles an hour,

Armstrong showing enormous determination.

- You couldn't develop a product

more perfect for the ravages

of endurance athletics than EPO.

- [Announcer] Armstrong has done it today.

- [Narrator] 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.

- [Interviewer] 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.

- [Announcer] 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.

- [Lance] 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 second,

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 third, 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.

- [Frankie] 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.

- [Betsy] 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.

- [Bob] 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.

- [Bob] 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.

Tom 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 10 seconds.

- [Frankie] 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.

- [Bob] 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.

- [Announcer] French police
raided the hotel rooms

of several leading riders

and found stashes of
performance-enhancing drugs.

- [Announcer] 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.

(upbeat music)

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

- [Announcer] 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 Motorman involved.

Motorman was a French.

He used to be a gardener/handyman

for Lance Armstrong.

He loved to ride motorcycles.

- [Announcer] Back to Abraham Olano,

I think probably the
number one favorite now.

- [Tyler] He would follow the race,

always stay within probably

a half-hour drive from our hotel.

- [Announcer] 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.

- [Tyler] Motor Man would basically

just wait for a phone call.

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

- [Announcer] He's just about done.

8.18, Chris Boardman.

Eight 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.

(applause)

- The team doctor, Garcia
del Moral, 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,

'cause you were being such a deviant.

- [Narrator] Sestriere,
the first big mountain day.

- [Announcer] Destination's Sestriere,

213 kilometers of distance.

- [Frankie] We had a job to set up Lance,

to keep him as fresh as possible

till that final climb.

- [Announcer] 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 specialize in sprinting,

he doesn't specialize
in mountain climbing.

He just specializes 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.

- [Announcer] 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 pedaling today,

marking everything,
never looking distressed

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

- [Announcer] 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.

- [Announcer] 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.

- [Announcer] 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.

- [Announcer] 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.

- [Narrator] It's almost
like whatever they're doing,

they got so much oxygen,

it's like they're not feeling the pain.

- [Narrator] He's talking on his radio,

his phone, and it was surreal.

- [Announcer] 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.

- [Announcer] Lance Armstrong,

le maillot jaune, soupconne de Dopage.

- [Tyler] But something didn't go right.

- [Narrator] It was the
UCI really who alerted us.

- [Announcer] En matiere de Dopage,

Lance Armstrong n'a rien a cacher.

- [Narrator] 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.

- [Announcer] Now you're going to speak?

- Actually, we were
looking for you in there.

- [Announcer] You were?

OK.

- [Emma] 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.

- [Emma] So I went down to
Spain, picked up the product.

That was cloak and dagger.

- Nobody had heard of EPO.

- [Emma] 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.

- Well we now know that
Tom Weisel and Mark Gorski,

the team manager were in that room,

and I have no doubt that they
were part of that cover up.

- And then if you 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.

- [Announcer] 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.

- [Announcer] And when
you see him tomorrow

in the yellow jersey
on the Champs-Elysees?

- A picture without words.

- [Announcer] 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.

- [Announcer] 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.

- [Narrator] 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.

- [Lance] There's Tyler.

Take it easy on camera.

Luis!

- How are you?

Are you tired today?

- [Lance] No.

- Be well.

- [Lance] Carmichael and
Stapleton, unbelievable.

They're so serious.

The man, the myth, Johan Bruyneel.

Say hello to my family.

- Hi, family!

- [Announcer] In Texas, all eyes were on

American Tour de France
winner Lance Armstrong.

A parade was held yesterday
in his honor in Austin,

Armstrong's adopted hometown.

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

(stock market bell)

- [Announcer] Proclaim July
29 in the city of New York as

Lance Armstrong Day.

(cheering)

- [Announcer] 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.

- [Announcer] 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.

- [Announcer] Le mouvement
cycliste est d'accord

de faire.

- 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.

- [Announcer] Who was
organizing 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.

- [Announcer] 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.

- [Frankie] I never did, you
know, blood transfusions,

growth hormone, whatever.

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

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

A little bit of being
scared of getting caught.

- [Announcer] Here is the Devil,

probably wishing some luck to
the US Postal riders today.

- [Tyler] I think we
were all pretty nervous,

but almost giddy about it.

We're in the heart of France

doing this completely illegal procedure.

- [Announcer] 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.

- [Announcer] 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.

- [Announcer] 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.

- [Betsy] 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.

(cheering)

- 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 grueling

sporting event in the world.

What wasn't there to celebrate?

It was a fraud.

It was a fraud.

(cheering)

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 marveling 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.

(intense music)

- [Frankie] 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 program?

It's just, it's not right.

- [Announcer] 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.

(upbeat music)

- Lance called me one day

and said, We're putting
together this foundation,

Lance Armstrong 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 survivor ship.

- 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 dollars.

Can we go 20?

Sold, 30,000 dollars.

- They approached me about exploring

the possibility of coming down

and running the foundation.

- Sold, 56,000 dollars.

- My motivation, my primary motivation,

in taking that position,

was the fact that I had,

a very personal experience.

I had been diagnosed with cancer.

- We believe in life, your life.

- [Steve] 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.

- [Announcer] 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.

- [Announcer] 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.

- [Announcer] L'americain se
rend au conference de presse

comme sur la route,

il n'a allude aucune
question sur le Dopage.

- Wow!

- [Greg] 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.

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.

- [Kathy] 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,

'cause mine wasn't a miracle.

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

No miracle there.

- [Announcer] 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, Hemopure, PFC's.

He listed probably 10
drugs I'd never heard of.

Is that what you think I'm on?

I'm like, whoa.

- You know, he was vicious.

- [Greg] 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.

(phone rings)

- 'Cause 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.

(cheering)

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.

(applause)

- That's great.

That's great.

Because it's not an option, is it?

It's just not an option.

(horns)

- 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 program

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

- [Announcer] One, two.

- [Tyler] There became more
stresses, you know, having to

work with my own special
doctor there in Spain,

having to organize those trips.

It wasn't the team handling it.

(whistle)

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.

- [Announcer] 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.

- [Greg] 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!

- [Announcer] 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.

(cheering)

- Journalists had 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.

- [Announcer] 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.

'Cause 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 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 program 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.

- [Announcer] There's no
argument who the champion

is of the Tour de France.

- [Betsy] And when I refused.

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

- It just was not good
for Frankie's career.

- [Reporter] Thank you, Lance.

- [Announcer] 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.

- [Announcer] As he races
the line to the victory.

- [Laywer] 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.

(cheering)

- [Announcer] 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.

- [Announcer] 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.

- [Announcer] Lance Armstrong!

- The last thing I'll say for the people

that don't believe in cycling,

the cynics and the sceptics,

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.

Vive La Tour.

For ever.

Thank you.

(national anthem)

(cheering)

- 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 balked at paying the last
five million dollar bonus.

- Mr Armstrong, my name is Jeff Tillotson,

I represent.

- [Narrator] It became a law suit

and over the course of
about a year and a half,

we took depositions,
which is sworn testimony,

we ploghed through records.

- The day before the SCA deposition,

I received a phone call from him.

Lance, 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.

- [Judge] 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.

- [Judge] 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?

- [Lance] Objection.

- [Judge] Well.

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

So it was, I was just
answering questions honestly.

- [Judge] I just would like
you to recount what took place

in the Indiana University Hospital room.

- 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.

- [Judge] 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.

- [Judge] 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.

- [Judge] 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.

- [Judge] I am.

- Sometimes is required.

- [Judge] 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.

- [Judge] What do you mean by that?

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

- [Jeff] Frankie Andreu was under

extremely difficult circumstances

at that particular point in time,

all of which was a result
of Lance Armstrong.

- [Judge] 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.

- [Judge] 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
besides raising her own kids?

His problem was never with Frankie.

- [Judge] 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?

- [Judge] That's my point.

It's not just simply

you don't recall?

- How many times do I have to say it?

- [Judge] 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.

- [Judge] 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.

- [Lawyer] 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 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.

- [Lawyer] 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.

- [Narrator] Raise your right hand please.

Do you solemnly state your testimony

shall be the truth, whole truth

and nothing but the truth so help you God?

- 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.

- [Judge] What kind of things do you do?

- I take care of.

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.

- [Judge] 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.

- [Judge] Do you have any recollection

of any doctor in your presence

asking Mr Armstrong 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.

(phone rings)

Greg LeMond!

- [Stephanie] I'm doing well.

- [Greg] 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.

- Stephanie told me many times

that she heard the rumination.

Stephanie told me that her
ultimate boss, Jim Jannard,

CEO and founder of Oakley
knew about Lance Armstrong's

doping.

She had had conversations with Jim Jannard

that discussed Lance's doping and stories

that Jim had heard from Lance

concerning Lance's doping.

- 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.

- [Narrator] A foul!

Wow!

- [Betsy] 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.

- [Judge] 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,

or care as to who they
hurt in the process.

The former was unpalatable.

The latter 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.

- [Reed] 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 seven million

dollars to settle it.

- We just paid.

Lance slipped past the gates and said,

time to fold your tent, boys.

- [Announcer] 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 a 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.

- [Reporter] 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.

(applause)

- Yet another doping scandal hits

the very top of the Tour de France.

- [Reporter] 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.

- [Announcer] 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.

(cheering)

- Woo!

- [Reporter] 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.

- [Reporter] 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.

(cheering)

- [Floyd] 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 issue.

As some of you may or may not know,

I've decided to race my bicycle again.

(applause)

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

- Please welcome seven-time

Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong.

(cheering)

- 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?

- [Paul] 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.

- [Interviewer] Getting back
to the Tour Of California.

(laughter)

- [Announcer] 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 realize 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.

- [Floyd] 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 defense,

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 teammate 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.

- [Betsy] Lance was really
pissed that Greg questioned why

he was working with Ferrari.

- [Tyler] He helped call the shots.

Yes, he doped himself.

- [Announcer] 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.

- [Floyd] 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 favor 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.

(rock music)

- 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.

And if ever the timing
of something suggested

political corruption or
impropriety, it just stank.

- 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 organization.

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 defense attorneys

and others wanted to
bankrupt us and take us down.

- [Lance] 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.

- [Scott] 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.

(cheering)

- [Announcer] 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.

- [Announcer] 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.

(applause)

- 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.

- [Reporter] Are you
doing something to take

your mind off the news this week?

- I'm more at ease now than
I have been in 10 years.

- What surprised me was
how quickly it fell apart.

- [Reporter] 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.

- [Announcer] Over the last ten years,

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

- [Lance] 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.

- [Announcer] 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.

- [Frankie] 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 apologized.

Apologized 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.

And he apologized.

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.

- [Announcer] 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.

- [Oprah] 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?

- I'm not going to take that on.

I'm laying down on that one.

- Was Betsy lying?

- 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 just used me.

- He called to apologize so that

when he went on Oprah he could say,

Oh, yeah, I've reached out
to people to apologize.

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.

- [Oprah] 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 dollar day.

Gone.

- [Oprah] Gone.

- Gone.

- [Interviewer] Do you think
he will ever come clean?

- No, I don't think fully.

Partly because it would
burn too many people.

- [Greg] He's protected
Bruyneel, he's protected Ferrari,

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

and he's protected, I believe,

the medical people at that hospital.

- [Narrator] 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 plus 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.

- [Betsy] What Lance
never had was the truth.

Which is more powerful
than the corrupt athlete.

- [Oprah] It's an epic story.

- [Betsy] Time flies, huh?

Who would have thought?

(sad music)