The words of Lance Armstrong, subject of the latest ESPN 30 for 30 documentary, who in both his mind and ours, remains one of sports most compelling characters.
"I'm going to tell you my truth," Armstrong tells film maker Marina Zenovich in the early stages of part one.Did we learn anything new? And if we did, can we take Armstrong's word for it anyway? The one moment in the film where Armstrong appears to show genuine emotion is when speaking about Ullrich, who spent time in a psychiatric hospital after struggling with substance abuse, having admitted to doping throughout his career.
"Just because he's a better athlete that happened to take the same drugs, I don't understand how [Vaughters] ends up being the messiah that's curing doping and [Armstrong] is the outcast." "Probably the way I treated and spoke about Emma O'Reilly. That was probably the worst," Armstrong said.This was in relation to his testimony against O'Reilly, his team's former massage therapist, who told journalist David Walsh Armstrong had been using drugs."I was an idiot and in full attack mode, that's why I did it. I would have said anything."
The documentary shows Armstrong as very hands-on, although meeting terminally ill patients would leave him "a wreck" according to former business manager Bart Knaggs. "So, just in my head, I'm like 'growth, growing hormones and cells, if anything good needs to be grown it does, but wouldn't it also make sense that if anything bad was there it too would grow?'"Armstrong wouldn't be happy if his son took PED's. Kinda.
"I also feel if I ever did that and got caught, for random people, they would be like 'he's just like his dad'.""If we were put in the position where Luke came to me and said either 'I'd like to try this' or 'I'm doing this' I would say that's a bad idea, you're a freshman in college.
Wrong is wrong don’t try and make it right.
No..... no they dont. No matter how much you want to advertise your new story...it's no longer compelling to me. He was a cheat... he still is a cheat...end of story!
Don't waste our money on this!
A very very complex person, I read all the books, watched the “tour de Lance” religiously, wore the yellow wristband. I don’t love or hate, but I am intrigued 🤷♂️
Glorifying a Cheat ! That’s our ABC time to Defund this garbage organization
He’s a psychopath
No one cares.
I like Lance
2005 tdf Cadel Evans finished 9th. In the following 12 months all other riders in the top 10 faced doping allegations and bans
A bloody cheat with no credibility, get lost!!!
.THIS DOES!
No they don't
I'm a cheat and I don't care, I lied for years and years to make millions under the guise of charity. Yeh he's a POS
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