Lance Armstrong admits using performance-enhancing drugs

January 18, 2013 08:51

Calling himself "deeply flawed," now-disgraced cyclistLance Armstrong says he used an array of performance enhancing drugs to win seven Tour de France titles followed by years of often angry denials.

"This is too late, it's too late for probably most people. And that's my fault," he said in an interview aired Thursday night. "(This was) one big lie, that I repeated a lot of times."

Armstrong admitted using testosterone and human growth hormone, as well as EPO -- a hormone naturally produced by human kidneys to stimulate red blood cell production, which increases the amount of oxygen that can be delivered to muscles, improving recovery and endurance.

Armstrong admitted to Oprah Winfrey that, in addition to using drugs, took blood transfusions to get ahead. The same man who regularly pointed to his having never failed a known drug test said he needed to cheat to win. While he didn't invent the culture of doping in cycling, said, he admitted that he didn't act to prevent it either.

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