While Gilroy seems to have done some original research, I am also not that impressed about his knowledge of basic facts. For instance, he thinks the Greg LeMond-Stephanie McIlvain tape as a new information because it was featured in the film
Stop at Nothing (2014), whereas in reality the content has been circulating for ten years and anyone with even a miniscule knowledge on the chronology of the SCA case would've known about its existence and also with its key contents.
https://youtu.be/QzSDNEgV794?t=14m34s
I listen to Gilroy a lot. He is an excellent interviewer and REGULARLY covers the ins and outs of doping. But this interview was so disappointing.
I simply can't believe he just heard about Stephanie McIlvain. But it sounded like that.
I don't know what went wrong. This should have been the biggest interview of his life and he got caught in the headlights perhaps. Intimidated by Armstong's personality?
I felt he took the wrong tack completely. He tried to establish 2 things - get Lance to self-flagellate and issue another mea culpa, when he has done a lot of mealy mouth apologies already and most sports fans know what a nasty piece of work he was.
And secondly he really pushed the motor topic. To me that sounded like a real shot in the dark. And he got Lance's forthright reaction which, sorry to say so, but sounded pretty genuine. I find it hard to believe that Lance was on the best dope and a motor. I mean Vargas said it was available in 98 but as a prototype. So unless he KNOWS FOR SURE Lance had a motorised bike, and can then bring up Lance's words later as evidence of more lying, then that was just a waste of valuable interview time.
I don't know why he didn't go for the full disclosure angle. Tell him that most sports fans want to know the full who, how, where, and when. Tell him that we know he has only told what he wants us to hear so far.
Get him to admit he is still lying in order to make money/protect what he has and protect the real mafioso like Stapleton et al.