Lance appearing on Oprah next week

[PosterBill]

From reading the Velonews legal article it sounds like it's far from a slam dunk for SCA/Floyd's Whistle Blow and the others. You get on here and read about that stuff and you might come to the conclusion that Lance is going to lose those cases rather easily but I trust Velo and it's legal team to publish a better summary. It sounds like he's got a really good chance to skate on a good many of the lawsuits

 

[Cloxxki]

Yes. Have Tyler, Floyd, Emma, Betsy all there and get the chance to ask him questions. That I would pay to see. The format with Oprah, no, I will not watch that at all.

Nooooo, just have them on live on another network booing and commenting right there. Making total fun of him. Getting themselves to sob along an burst into laughter.
A critical journalist there to comment on Oprah would be good.

 

[caryopsis]

Just like he didn't get paid for the comeback - except for the millions of appearance fees.

Just like he didn't get paid by Livestrong - except for the millions in speaking/appearance fees that didn't flow through the charity but were paid directly to him.

Maybe he isn't getting paid for the interview, but he isn't doing it for nothing.

+1. this.

 

[Bosco10]

From reading the Velonews legal article it sounds like it's far from a slam dunk for SCA/Floyd's Whistle Blow and the others. You get on here and read about that stuff and you might come to the conclusion that Lance is going to lose those cases rather easily but I trust Velo and it's legal team to publish a better summary. It sounds like he's got a really good chance to skate on a good many of the lawsuits

What happens in reality is sometimes very different from the notions folks have. And even if Lance pays some millions here and some millions there, he still has millions and millions to spare.

 

[MarkvW]

Surely he is setting himself up for a big legal fall?

Think about it for a second. Overwhelming evidence of Lance's doping scheme has already been developed by USADA (and presumably also by the feds). What difference would a confession make? It's just one more piece of evidence on an already mountainous stack of evidence that Lance doped.

Also, if Lance is deposed, he's going to have to admit his doping. Otherwise he's going to be very vulnerable to perjury charges. If he's going to be deposed, he's well advised to get his story out in front now before the deposition is released to the public.

 

[The GCW]

Update

Source: Lance Armstrong plans to admit doping to Oprah

Lance Armstrong plans to make an admission about doping in an interview with Oprah Winfrey scheduled to tape Monday at his home in Austin, Texas, a person with knowledge of the situation said.

In the interview, which is scheduled to air Thursday on the Oprah Winfrey Network, the famed cyclist plans to admit to doping throughout his career but probably will not get into great detail about specific cases and events, the person said. The person spoke to USA TODAY Sports on the condition of anonymity because the person was not authorized to speak publicly about it.

Cont.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/cycling/2013/01/11/lance-armstrong-oprah-interview/1828311/

 

[86TDFWinner]

Source: Lance Armstrong plans to admit doping to Oprah

Lance Armstrong plans to make an admission about doping in an interview with Oprah Winfrey scheduled to tape Monday at his home in Austin, Texas, a person with knowledge of the situation said.

In the interview, which is scheduled to air Thursday on the Oprah Winfrey Network, the famed cyclist plans to admit to doping throughout his career but probably will not get into great detail about specific cases and events, the person said. The person spoke to USA TODAY Sports on the condition of anonymity because the person was not authorized to speak publicly about it.

Cont.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/cycling/2013/01/11/lance-armstrong-oprah-interview/1828311/

Beat me to it. ESPN just did a "Breaking News" thing about claiming Wonderboy is supposedly going to admit to doping.

 

[cathulu]

That scumbag lying sociopath is going to get all blubbery on Oprah. What a con artist. Prance is reading all this lol. Suck it Prance!

 

[woodburn]

Very mixed emotions about this. Believe it is long overdue and hopefully will be full vindication for those that have dealt with BS for the last 10+ years.

However, I doubt Lance truly gets into any of the details about what happened and is given a nice soft landing.
Can also imagine how many excuses he will give to alleviate guilt. Any remorse or sadness will be met with skepticism by me.

 

[Moose McKnuckles]

USA Today reporting that Lance will confess on Oprah.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/cycling/2013/01/11/lance-armstrong-oprah-interview/1828311/

 

[FoxxyBrown1111]

So what you guys and I want more? Lance Armstrong will confess. I am ok with it. My bitter feelings will go one day. I will FORGIVE, but NEVER FORGET. I will leave it at that. No matter if he is still rich or whatever... The truth won, that´s enough for me.

 

[ustabe]

Former Tour cyclist Matt DeCanio thinks Lance Armstrong will use his interview with Oprah Winfrey to "manipulate people's opinions".
Armstrong, who was stripped of his seven Tour de France titles by the sport's governing body, following a report by the US Anti-Doping Agency (Usada), will appear on Winfrey's OWN network on Thursday, 17 January.
DeCanio says Armstrong "will cry" in the 90-minute interview in a "last-ditch" effort to gather public support.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/cycling/20964911

Compelling, and there might be tears. But I'll be looking for a Fox News-style "fairandbalanced" takedown of Travis Tygart and USADA.

 

[MarkvW]

So what you guys and I want more? Lance Armstrong will confess. I am ok with it. My bitter feelings will go one day. I will FORGIVE, but NEVER FORGET. I will leave it at that. No matter if he is still rich or whatever... The truth won, that´s enough for me.

A little droplet of clean truth wrung from a very dirty sport.

I can't wait to hear what Eddy Merckx has to say about this.

 

[D-Queued]

A little droplet of clean truth wrung from a very dirty sport.

I can't wait to hear what Eddy Merckx has to say about this.

To heck with Eddy.

Just today, with the oh-so-obvious admission days away and in order to prove that Norway really is isolated from the rest of the world, Thor Hushovd assured us that Lance was innocent.

Nothing like a confirmation of Omerta right before the big admission.

Dave.

 

[DirtyWorks]

Very mixed emotions about this. Believe it is long overdue and hopefully will be full vindication for those that have dealt with BS for the last 10+ years.

During the taping: Hey, yeah some mistakes were made. I couldn't let down millions of cancer patients. I'm moving on. They should too. I'm a cool family guy now who won the same bike race 7x in a row and makes people aware of cancer.

When the taping is over: Hey, whose that cute blonde over there working craft services? Eff this place. I've got go and make some money.
Where's my next chat show and how much are they paying? They want me to be seen on TV with Betsy and Tygart? Eff them! No way.
Yeah, hello Hein. It went great. I'm sure it's enough to get the IOC to let me back in. They want how much?

If he sheds a tear, it's only because he doped to get the tear to come out.

 

[Tinman]

The influence of the clinic and Oprah threads... Also made the online Sydney Morning Herald.

http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/i-wont-be-watching-oprahs-lance-armstrong-interview/

 

[FoxxyBrown1111]

A little droplet of clean truth wrung from a very dirty sport.

That´s all we get. It´s an imperfect world.

But be happy: One year ago all what happened in the past few months was unthinkable.

 

[MarkvW]

That´s all we get. It´s an imperfect world.

But be happy: One year ago all what happened in the past few months was unthinkable.

Nah. I predicted all of this one year and seven months ago:

I look forward to the moment when Lance goes on Oprah (who has a special show for him) and apologizes for lying to her and everyone else. That would be so hilarious!

 

[FoxxyBrown1111]

Nah. I predicted all of this one year and seven months ago:

Come on, be serious.
You didn´t. No one saw it coming, not even RaceRadio. Everybody was depressed (especially the clinic was depressed, including me) when Birotte stopped the investigation short before the superbowl. All after that is just a dream. I am still trying to wake up...

 

[MarkvW]

Come on, be serious.
You didn´t. No one saw it coming, not even RaceRadio. Everybody was depressed (especially the clinic was depressed, including me) when Birotte stopped the investigation short before the superbowl. All after that is just a dream. I am still trying to wake up...

That's a legit quote. And I've consistently said it since . . ..

Once the race/match/game is over, sports is not real. It is mythmaking, and it is not even creative mythmaking. It is super-hackneyed vulgarian banality crafted by marginally talented sportswriter hacks.

And one of the most super-hackneyed vulgarian banalities of all is the Rise, Fall and Redemption Myth. The pull of that myth has always been inexorable. The FALL became apparent once once it became clear that Tyler and George had turned. And after the fall, there MUST come REDEMPTION. Our media would serve it to us no other way.

This kind of sledgehammer, crude mythmaking, hammered over and over at us, is modern Western propaganda.

 

[Berzin]

Lance Armstrong will admit to doping throughout his career on the Oprah Winfrey show, to be taped this coming Monday* and airing next Thursday.

Game, set, match.

I wonder how this will affect Johan Bruyneel's arbitration hearing.

*(correction-I had erroneously stated the interview was set for Tuesday, as reported on ESPN.com)

 

[goggalor]

So what you guys and I want more? Lance Armstrong will confess. I am ok with it. My bitter feelings will go one day. I will FORGIVE, but NEVER FORGET. I will leave it at that. No matter if he is still rich or whatever... The truth won, that´s enough for me.

It won't be a full confession, it will be full of bull**** half-truths like the Garmin affidavits.

 

[trailrunner]

You didn´t. No one saw it coming

When it was apparent that LA was doomed, sometime early last summer, I also posted that I thought there would come the point that he appears on Oprah. This step of the process has been obvious from the start, at least to me. When reality settled in with LA and he realized that this really was sticking and he wasn't going to escape this one, he started the next phase: image rehabilitation. This is the mandatory first step.

 

[veganrob]

It will be a lame admission. He will try to deflect the guilt on to others and rationalize everything to make it look like he is the victim. He will never take full responsiblity. Never change. Will always be a self serving POS.

 

[sniper]

So what you guys and I want more? Lance Armstrong will confess. I am ok with it. My bitter feelings will go one day. I will FORGIVE, but NEVER FORGET. I will leave it at that. No matter if he is still rich or whatever... The truth won, that´s enough for me.

for me and many others it's not about lance anymore.
he got caught. he's gone. good for him if he confesses, and of course interesting from a tabloid point of view.
But as far as cycling is concerned, it's now about those who are still there, ensuring cycling remains as fraudulent and farcical as it was in the 90s and 00s. From UCI to Sky, Riis and Millar.
All using the Lance-shield.
We should be very skeptical of any attempts from within cycling to scapegoat Lance.