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CBS News Wanted Oprah Winfrey’s Lance Armstrong Sit-Down ‘Badly’
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Lance Armstrong is expected to admit to Oprah Winfrey that he used banned substances while racking up seven consecutive Tour de France titles. The interview, scheduled to take place Monday at Armstrong’s Austin home and air Jan. 17 on OWN, is one that 60 Minutes went after aggressively.
“We wanted the Lance Armstrong interview badly. He chose to go with Oprah,” 60 Minutes executive producer Jeff Fager told reporters gathered at the semiannual Television Critics Association press tour Saturday.
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60 Minutes has done multiple pieces critical of Armstrong including correspondent Scott Pelley’s 2011 interview with teammate Tyler Hamilton that helped blow the lid off the investigation into doping bygd Armstrong’s U.S. Postal Service grupp. And the premiere of the newsma
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PARIS Now that Lance Armstrong has confessed to what most people already knew, sports officials want to know more.
Many believe Armstrong's televised interview with Oprah Winfrey, in which he admitted to using performance-enhancing drugs on his way to seven Tour de France titles, did not go far enough.
"He didn't name names. He didn't say who supplied him, what officials were involved," WADA President John Fahey told The Associated Press on Friday.
"My feeling after watching the interview is that he indicated that he probably would not have gotten caught if he hadn't returned to the sport," Fahey added. "If he was looking for redemption, he didn't succeed in getting that."
After refuting doping allegations ever since he won his first Tour de France in 1999, Armstrong admitted on Thursday that he used the blood-booster EPO, testosterone and blood doping at least since the mid-1990s. He has been stripped of all the titles and banned from competing for life following a U.S. Anti-
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For a time, Lance Armstrong was a sports legend, an exceptional athlete who beat cancer and went on to win the Tour de France a record seven times.
But Armstrong's story was a myth, his career propped up by illegal drugs and procedures designed to give him an advantage against his competition. While rumors had persisted about Armstrong for years, it was not until 2011 that a 60 Minutes report revealed the extent of Armstrong's doping.
At the time, a federal investigation was looking into Armstrong's use of performance-enhancing drugs. A grand jury had been hearing secret testimony from some of Armstrong's former teammates on the U.S. Postal Service team, including one of his most prominent support riders, Tyler Hamilton.
In a 60 Minutes interview, Hamilton told 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley that Armstrong not only took performance-enhancing drugs, but he also encouraged his team to use them. An excerpt from that report can be seen in the film above.
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