Next Sunday (May 24) the first part of the documentary 'Lance' will be released, which will be broadcast by ESPN in the United States and, in addition, will have a second part on May 31. A report on the cycling life of Lance Armstrong, where the American cyclist admits to having started doping around 1992, a year before he conquered the world championship in Oslo and dressed in rainbows.
"This starts off strong, I was probably 21 years old, although the first time I took growth hormone was in 1996," Armstrong responds to questions from journalist Marina Zenovich about when her first doping experience dates back. This exchange of words appears in a 90-second preview to promote the documentary. "I do not want it to be an excuse, but everyone did it and I would have won equally clean," admits the American.
In this span of time, several former teammates of his appear in the US Postal, such as Tyler Hamilton and George Hincapie, answering the same question about his first doping experience. Lance, who is now 48, points out that there are "several ways to define doping."
"The easiest way, that is to say that it is not respecting the rules. Did we receive vitamin injections and other things like that before (being 21 years old)? Yes, but it was not illegal. Did I always ask what I was given? I always knew what was in the injections and it was always me who made the decision, "he explains. And she adds: "No one told me 'don't ask, we will give you this and that's it'. I would never have accepted that. I was informed, and it was a step I took."
A rainbow under suspicion
The American, who was the king of professional cycling in the 2000s, won seven consecutive editions of the Tour de France, from 1999 to 2005. However, he was dispossessed of his victories after being suspended for life in 2012 after an open investigation by the American Anti-Doping Agency (USADA), which established that it was at the forefront of the "most sophisticated, professional and effective doping system in the history of sport."
In 2013, he acknowledged doping from 1996 in a highly-followed interview, accorded to American television star Oprah Winfrey . Although she started doping at 21, therefore in 1992 or 1993, which could cast shadows on her world title won in 1993 in Oslo.
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