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'It did not feel wrong to take performance enhancing drugs'
January 18, 2013
More on the Lance Armstrong interview.
Oprah Winfrey: Did it feel wrong?
"No," Armstrong replied. "Scary."
"Did you
feel bad about it?" Winfrey pressed him.
"No," he said. "Even
scarier."
"Did you feel in any way that you were cheating?"
"No," Armstrong paused. "Scariest." "I went and looked up the
definition of cheat," he added a moment later. "And the definition is to
gain an advantage on a rival or foe. I didn't view it that way. I
viewed it as a level playing field."
Wearing a blue blazer and
open-neck shirt, Armstrong was direct and matter-of-fact, neither pained
nor defensive. He looked straight ahead. There were no tears and very
few laughs.
He dodged few questions and refused to implicate anyone
else, even as he said it was humanly impossible to win seven straight
Tours without doping. "I'm not comfortable talking about other
people," Armstrong said. "I don't want to accuse anybody."
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