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In 2004, Armstrong finished first, 6 minutes 19 seconds ahead of German Andreas Klöden. Ullrich was fourth, a further 2 minutes 31 seconds behind. Armstrong won a personal-best five individual stages, plus the team time trial. He became the first biker since Gino Bartali in 1948 to win three consecutive mountain stages; 15, 16, and 17. The individual time trial on stage 16 up Alpe d'Huez was won in style by Armstrong as he passed Ivan Basso on the way despite having set out two minutes after the Italian. He won sprint finishes from Basso in stages 13 and 15 and made up a significant gap in the last 250 m to nip Klöden at the line in stage 17. He won the final individual time trial, stage 19, to complete his personal record of stage wins.[48]
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The willowy Rupp has been a public testament to Salazar's methods since 2008, when he made the U.S. Olympic team while still in college. By 2014, he had set three American records, and had earned a reputation for doing intense workouts shortly after racing at competitions. Unlike other Project athletes who came to Salazar as pros, Rupp has been with Salazar since he serendipitously impressed him while doing a conditioning workout as a soccer-playing high school freshman. Even as he worked with other athletes, Salazar's mission has always been to make Rupp the best runner in the world. So singular was that focus that other Oregon Project athletes derisively referred to their team as the Galen Rupp Project. As Salazar put it in his memoir: "I wanted to start the Oregon Project with the best available professional runners, but ultimately, Galen was going to be the star."
Salazar has previously said that joining the ranks of the world's best might not be achievable without pharmaceutical help. In a 1999 speech at Duke University, he said that he believed it's difficult "to be among the top five in the world in any of the distance events without using EPO or human growth hormone." He said that his own "desire to win" would be "very hard to ignore in the current age where many athletes feel it is impossible to be competitive against the best in the world without doping." (Shortly after Salazar gave that speech, WADA and USADA were created, and Salazar now says "our sport is in a better place today since they were formed.")
He was a 25-year-old exercise science grad student when he packed up and moved to Oregon for what he expected to be a dream job as assistant coach and scientific adviser to the best distance runners in the country.
"You don't get to the end of a long year burnt out and take two weeks off and come out and run the best race of your life," she says. "That's not how it works. You have to rest. You have to recover. You have to start all over again."
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\n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n Oprah Winfrey interviews Lance Armstrong at his home in Austin, Texas\n \n AP Photo\n \n\n\n \n \n \n\n \n Lance Armstrong listens during an interview with US talkmaster Oprah Winfrey at his home in Austin, Texas\n \n AP Photo\n \n\n\n \n \n \n\n \n Lance Armstrong has done exactly one recent interview with media, and that was with Oprah Winfrey\n \n Steve Ruark, Charles Sykes\/AP\/Press Association Images\n \n\n\n \n \n \n\n \n Lance Armstrong looks back on the podium after the 20th and last stage of the Tour de France cycling race in Paris\n \n AP Photo\/Bas Czerwinski, File\n \n\n\n \n \n \n\n \n US Postal Service team leader Lance Armstrong sits by the registration bus before the second stage of the 91st Tour de France\n \n AP Photo\/Peter Dejong\n \n\n\n \n \n \n\n \n Lance Armstrong stands during ceremonies after winning the Tour de France cycling race following the 20th and final stage in Paris\n \n AP Photo\/Laurent Rebours\n \n\n\n \n \n \n\n \n Lance Armstrong crosses the finish line during the 15th stage of the Tour de France cycling race in Verbier, Switzerland\n \n AP Photo\/Laurent Rebours\n \n\n\n \n \n \n\n \n Lance Armstrong considers a question from a reporter after his second-place finish in the Power of Four mountain bicycle race at the base of Aspen Mountain in Aspen, Colo. Armstrong confessed to using performance-enhancing drugs to win the Tour de France cycling race during a taped interview with Oprah Winfrey that aired Thursday, Jan. 17, 2013, reversing more than a decade of denial\n \n AP Photo\/David Zalubowski\n \n\n\n \n \n \n\n \n Lance Armstrong signals seven for his seventh straight win in the Tour de France cycling race as he pedals during the 21st and final stage of the race between Corbeil-Essonnes, south of Paris, and the French capital. Armstrong confessed to using performance-enhancing drugs to win the Tour de France during a taped interview with Oprah Winfrey that aired Thursday, Jan. 17, 2013, reversing more than a decade of denial. Armstrong called his run to seven Tour de France titles \u201cso perfect for so long.\u201d\n \n AP Photo\/Peter Dejong\n \n\n\n \n \n \n\n \n Neighbors walk past the home of cyclist Lance Armstrong and waiting media, Monday, Jan. 14, 2013, in Austin, Texas\n \n AP Photo\/Eric Gay\n \n\n\n \n \n \n\n \n U.S. cyclist Lance Armstrong waves after receiving the bronze medal in the men\u2019s individual time trials at the 2000 Summer Olympics cycling road course in Sydney, Australia. Officials familiar with the decision tell The Associated Press the IOC has stripped Armstrong of his bronze medal from the 2000 Sydney Olympics because of his involvement in doping.\n \n AP Photo\/Ricardo Mazalan\n \n\n\n \n \n \n\n \n Russia\u2019s Viacheslav Ekimov, center, winner of the gold medal in the men\u2019s individual time trials, celebrates with Germany\u2019s silver medal winner Jan Ullrich, left, and U.S bronze medal winner Lance Armstrong at the cycling road course in Sydney, for the Summer Olympic Games. Officials familiar with the decision tell The Associated Press the IOC has stripped Lance Armstrong of his bronze medal from the 2000 Sydney Olympics because of his involvement in doping.\n \n AP Photo\/Laurent Rebours\n \n\n\n \n \n \n\n \n Hein Verbruggen, coordination commission chairman of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Organizing Committee, listens during a news conference in Beijing\n \n AP Photo\/Robert F. Bukaty\n \n\n\n \n \n\n\n\nThis article was originally published on Cyclingnews.com.\nLance Armstrong has told Oprah Winfrey that not only did he use EPO and blood dope throughout his career, but that it was also impossible to win seven Tours de France as he did, without drugs.\nIn the opening minute of questioning, described by Winfrey as \u201cno hold barred, no conditions\u2026 an open field\u201d, Armstrong admitted to the use of cortisone, EPO, Human Growth Hormone, Testosterone and blood doping.\nAsked why he was confessing now after years of denials, the 41-year-old said:\n\u201cThat\u2019s the best question, that\u2019s the most logical question,\u201d he admitted. \u201cI don\u2019t know that I have a great answer. I will start my answer by saying that this is too late. It\u2019s too late for probably most people and that\u2019s my problem. I view this situation as one big lie that I repeated a lot it times.\u201d\nArmstrong recorded the interview over two-and-a-half hours on Monday at a hotel in Austin, Texas. He was the focus of the United States Anti-Doping Agency\u2019s investigation which labelled the US Postal team\u2019s operation as \u201cthe most sophisticated, professionalized and successful doping program that sport has ever seen\u201d on October 10, 2012. USADA stripped Armstrong of all results from August 1, 1998 when he declined to contest charges of doping in late August and handed the Texan a lifetime ban all of which was later ratified by cycling\u2019s governing body, the UCI.\nArmstrong took issue with USADA\u2019s description of the systematic doping within the U.S. Postal team.\n\u201cIt was definitely professional,\u201d he said. \u201cIt was definitely smart, if you can call it that but it was very conservative, very risk averse, very aware \u2026 that one race mattered for me. But to say that the program was bigger than the East German doping program in the 80s, 70s and 80s, that\u2019s not true.\u201d\nUnable to load media\nReactions to Lance Armstrong on Oprah\nFront and centre with Armstrong in USADA\u2019s case, was the influence of Dr Michele Ferrari.\n\u201cI view Michele Ferrari as a good man. And I still do,\u201d he said.\n\u201cI\u2019m not comfortable talking about other people, I\u2019m not. It\u2019s all out there,\u201d when asked to expand on Ferrari.\n\u201cFrom the public\u2019s perception, standpoint? Sure [it was reckless to have been involved with Ferrari]. But there were plenty of other reckless things. In fact it would be a very good way to characterise that period in my life.\u201d\n\n Lance armstrong listens during an interview with us talkmaster oprah winfrey at his home in austin, texas: AP Photo\nArmstrong listens intently during the interview\nHe also refuted claims made in the \u2018Reasoned Decision\u2019 that he was doping when he made his comeback in 2009.\n\u201cThe last time that I crossed that line was in 2005,\u201d he stated.\nSuch a response from Armstrong is critical to the argument he and his lawyers used in the lead up to the release of the USADA report, whereby it was claimed that the Agency was pushing the boundaries of the statute of limitations.\nThe interview marks a turning-point for the 41-year-old having spent the last 15-years vehemently denying any allegations of his anti-doping violations and attacking his critics. Perhaps most memorably, upon winning his seventh Tour de France in 2005, Armstrong offered this from the podium on the Champs Elysees:\n\u201cAnd finally the last thing I\u2019ll say for the people who don\u2019t believe in cycling. The cynics, the skeptics. I\u2019m sorry for you, I\u2019m sorry that you can\u2019t dream big, and I\u2019m sorry you don\u2019t believe in miracles.\u201d\nPerhaps one of the loudest, most constant voices in the quest for Armstrong to tell the truth has been Betsy Andreu. She\u2019s long spoken of the events she saw take place in an Indiana hospital room in 1996 and became a target of Armstrong\u2019s in the process. In his SCA deposition in 2005, Armstrong denied that Andreu\u2019s claimed were correct.\nIn his interview, Armstrong, would not elaborate on whether Andreu\u2019s testimony was correct.\n\u201cI\u2019m not going to take that on,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m laying down on that one.\u201d\nWhen Winfrey asked if his former teammate\u2019s wife was lying, Armstrong remained stoic.\n\u201cI\u2019m just not. I\u2019m going to put that one down.\u201d\n\n Lance armstrong looks back on the podium after the 20th and last stage of the tour de france cycling race in paris: AP Photo\/Bas Czerwinski, File\nArmstrong said he competed clean during the 2009 and 2010 Tours de France\nArmstrong did however reveal that he had recently reached out to the Andreu\u2019s in a 40 minute phone conversation.\n\u201cThey\u2019ve been hurt too badly,\u201d Armstrong said, when asked if they were \u2018at peace.\u2019 \u201cA 40 minute conversation isn\u2019t enough.\u201d\n Armstrong later also denied calling Andreu \u2018fat\u2019.\nAnother of Armstrong\u2019s targets, Emma O\u2019Reilly, was then bought up as a topic of conversation by Winfrey with the Texan admitting that there were no good feelings about the way the former soigneur had been treated.\n\u201cShe\u2019s one of these people that I have to apologise to,\u201d he explained. \u201cShe\u2019s one of those people who got run over. Got bullied.\u201d\n It was then pointed out that Armstrong had sued O\u2019Reilly, prompting the following response.\n\u201cTo be honest Oprah we sued so many people\u2026 I\u2019m sure we did. But I have reached out to her and tried to make those amends on my own.\n\u201cI was just on the attack, Oprah,\u201d he said by way of explanation. \u201cTerritory of being threatened. Team being threatened. Reputation being threatened. I\u2019m going to attack.\u201d\nSymptom of Armstrong\u2019s constant denials that he doped throughout his career, was a personality that also did not believe that he would get caught. In his interview with Winfrey, he admitted that he both did not feel bad about what he did at the time.\n\u201cI viewed it as a level playing field,\u201d he said having deduced that after looking up the definition of cheat in a dictionary.\nArmstrong did however concede, like many pundits on the issue in recent times, that he would not be in the position he is now, had he not made his comeback in 2009.\n\u201cI just assumed the stories would continue for a long time\u2026 we\u2019re sitting here because there was a two-year Federal investigation,\u201d he said. \u201cEverybody involved in this story was called in. Subpoenaed, deposed. There was a man with a gun and the badge and the consequences are serious.\u201d\nThe closure of the Federal investigation into Armstrong became all the more concerning in light of the information within the USADA report. At the time of its sudden closure, a source for National Public Radio said there were \u2018no weaknesses in the case\u2019.\nAsked for his take on the case\u2019s demise, Armstrong said it had nothing to do with him.\n\u201cThat\u2019s very difficult to influence.\u201d\nThe issue of Armstrong\u2019s donation to the UCI was also a topic of conversation with the Texan claiming that it was the sporting body which asked for the handout. Tyler Hamilton has claimed that the donation was in exchange for a cover-up of a positive test from the Tour de Suisse. Something else that Armstrong refuted.\n\u201cI\u2019m going to tell you what\u2019s true and not true,\u201d he said. \u201cThat story isn\u2019t true. There was no positive test, there was no paying off of the lab there was no secret meeting with the lab director.\n\u201cThis is impossible for me to answer this question and have anybody believe it. It was not in exchange for any cover up. And again I am not a fan of the UCI. I have every incentive to sit here and tell you \u2018yes, that\u2019s right.'\u201d\n\n Lance armstrong considers a question from a reporter after his second-place finish in the power of four mountain bicycle race at the base of aspen mountain in aspen, colo. armstrong confessed to using performance-enhancing drugs to win the tour de france cycling race during a taped interview with oprah winfrey that aired thursday, jan. 17, 2013, reversing more than a decade of denial: AP Photo\/David Zalubowski\nThe Armstrong that sat down with Winfrey did profess to be sorry.\n\u201cI see the anger in people. Betrayal, it\u2019s all there. These are people that supported me, believed in me and they have every right to feel betrayed\u2026 I\u2019ll apologise to these people for the rest of my life.\u201d\nHe indicated that his road to forgiveness would not just stop with his interview.\n\u201cI love cycling. I really do,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd I say that knowing that I sound like \u2026 people will say that I\u2019ve disrespected that event, the colour yellow, the sport, the jersey \u2013 I did.\nI disrespected the rules, regardless of what anybody says of the generation. That was my choice. If I can, and I stand on no moral platform here. It\u2019s certainly not my place to say \u2018hey guys, let\u2019s clean up cycling.\u2019 If there was a truth and reconciliation commission \u2013 again I can\u2019t call for that. I\u2019ve got no cred. But if they have it and I\u2019m invited, I\u2019ll be the first man in the door.\u201d\nThe second part of the interview which will air tomorrow will cover the effect on Armstrong\u2019s sponsors, Livestrong and his family.\n","image":"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/21\/2019\/03\/1358503360947-j41h15krfe40-b833584.jpg?quality=90&resize=768,574","width":768,"height":574,"headline":"Lance Armstrong confesses to EPO and blood doping","author":["@type":"Person","name":"jane aubrey"],"publisher":"@type":"Organization","name":"BikeRadar","url":"https:\/\/www.bikeradar.com","logo":"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/21\/2019\/03\/cropped-White-Orange-da60b0b-04d8ff9.png?quality=90&resize=265,53","width":182,"height":60,"speakable":"@type":"SpeakableSpecification","xpath":["\/html\/head\/title","\/html\/head\/meta[@name='description']\/@content"],"url":"https:\/\/www.bikeradar.com\/news\/lance-armstrong-confesses-to-epo-and-blood-doping\/","datePublished":"2013-01-18T05:40:00+00:00","dateModified":"2019-04-09T18:24:04+00:00"}] Lance Armstrong confesses to EPO and blood doping Tells Oprah Winfrey he could not have won the Tour seven times clean 2ff7e9595c
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