The Armstrong Lie
1
It's interesting.
It's like living a lie.
I didn't live a lot of lies,
but I lived one big one.
You know, it's different, I guess.
Maybe it's not.
But yeah, it's...
And what I said in
there with just how
this story is
all over the place,
just complete
opposite narratives.
You know, the only person
that can actually
start to let people
understand what
the true narrative is is me.
And you should know that
better than anybody.
Let's get to the real nature and
the real detail of the story.
'Cause we haven't
heard it yet, is the truth.
Lance, how you feeling?
Good. I'm very good.
Nervous. But that's good.
Always nervous for these.
Not a lot of room for error.
So makes it interesting.
Oh, yeah.
Welcome to the party.
In 2009, I set out
to make a film about
Lance Armstrong's comeback year.
A retired champion
with a contentious past
comes back to
cycling to show them all.
Then the Lance
doping scandal erupted
and I had to put the film aside.
When I picked
the film back up, I faced
the same question
that haunted me in 2009.
Why did he come back?
He'd won the Tour de
France seven times.
I wondered what
I had been witness to in 2009.
And what did it mean now that the
In making my new film, all roads
seemed to lead back to the past.
cancer as an athletic competition.
But in that,
you either win or you lose.
When you lose,
or if you lose, you die.
So I took that perspective,
which is a little dark,
and I put it into everything
I've done since then.
I like to win.
But more than anything,
I can't stand
the idea of losing,
because, to me,
that equals death.
Look at this. Armstrong
accelerating once again.
And there's a gap
now starting to appear
between Lance Armstrong
and Marco Pantani.
Well, I never
thought I'd see the day when
Lance Armstrong
would blow away the man
we've always referred to as the
finest climber we've ever seen
in the current
peloton of cycling.
But there's one matter
that's stayed on Armstrong's tail,
allegations he's used
banned performance enhancers.
Where he's found this
strength from, I don't know.
He has torn
The mythic nature
of his essential comeback,
getting cancer and
coming back and being
a great athlete,
is an astonishing story.
If he's clean,
it's the greatest comeback.
If he's not,
then it's the greatest fraud.
I don't think any
sports team or any athlete
has ever come under
this kind of scrutiny.
Oh, and Beloki's gone down!
Armstrong's off
the road as well.
Armstrong,
complete control there.
He's into the field,
but what a great bike rider.
He's gone across.
This is unbelievable.
I've never seen this before.
Armstrong went
across the field there.
He's back on the road
with four kilometers to go.
Oh, this is incredible.
Armstrong is such a star.
There are people
who have really been ruined
because of Lance's aggressive
attempts to keep them quiet.
He was an
immensely intimidating person.
Thing about Armstrong,
he has the acceleration.
When he wants to go into
a climb, he can do it.
He has now decided,
"I want to go."
You can see the yellow jersey is open...
What's happened now'?
What has happened there?
Can he recover?
He's come back.
Armstrong is out
of the saddle again.
He's jumping onto the
tail here of {ban Mayo.
This is unbelievable.
Armstrong is now one of
the world's most recognized athletes.
To Americans, Lance
Armstrong is cycling's Superman.
The bigger you are,
In any generation
of professional sportsmen,
there will be guys who cheat and
there will be guys who don't cheat.
This is a guy who was going
His comeback and
storybook life have put
Lance Armstrong
under a global spotlight.
Armstrong has been
less successful in
outracing accusations
of possible drug use.
I've said it for seven years. I've
said it for longer than seven years.
I have never doped.
It's very hard to
conceal the truth forever.
So this has been my downfall.
No, thanks.
There you are.
Come on in.
I just walk on in?
Hi. Thank you.
Good to see you.
Ready?
Saw you get your shoes on.
Everybody, let's do
everything we need to do...
This is where I came
back into the story.
I was in Austin when Lance decided
to do an interview with Oprah
to address charges
of doping in the press
that had become
impossible to deny.
Tonight on Nightline...
Did Lance cheat?
Lance had been the subject
of a criminal investigation.
He was also probed by
the US Anti-Doping Agency.
Many ex-teammates
testified against Armstrong.
Did you see Lance Armstrong using
performance-enhancing drugs?
At times, yeah.
There was EPO.
There was testosterone.
And I did see
a blood transfusion.
Look,
at some point, people have to
tell their kids that
Santa Claus isn't real.
You're saying Lance
Armstrong is a liar'?
Yes.
The anti-cancer crusader
was now portrayed as a cheater
who ran a doping ring and used his
power as a celebrity to cover it up.
UCI will ban Lance
Armstrong from cycling,
seven Tour de France titles.
Lance Armstrong has
no place in cycling.
We ready to go. Ready?
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