LANCE ARMSTRONG’S FLAWED CONFESSION [The New Yorker]

It all might have worked if Lance Armstrong hadn’t had to talk about anyone but Lance Armstrong. It bespeaks his flaws and his corruption that he seems to have thought, as he sat down for his interview with Oprah Winfrey, that it might be possible. She began by walking him through a confession: “Yes or no? Did you ever take banned substances to enhance your cycling performance?” Yes. EPO, blood doping, cortisone, testosterone, and human-growth hormone in “all seven of your Tour de France victories”? Yes.

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