0:00:02 > 0:00:05Would you raise your right hand, please?
0:00:05 > 0:00:07Do you solemnly swear to tell the truth, the whole truth
0:00:07 > 0:00:10- and nothing but the truth, so help you God?- Yeah.
0:00:10 > 0:00:13Would you please give us your full name?
0:00:13 > 0:00:14Lance Armstrong.
0:00:14 > 0:00:18You understand that although we're in the conference room of your lawyers,
0:00:18 > 0:00:21you are giving testimony as if you are in a court of law?
0:00:21 > 0:00:23- Do you understand that?- Correct.
0:00:23 > 0:00:26And that penalties of perjury attach to this deposition
0:00:26 > 0:00:30- just like they would to a court of law proceeding.- Of course.
0:00:32 > 0:00:33There's been allegations
0:00:33 > 0:00:37regarding what has been alleged to be a steroid or cortisone in connection...
0:00:37 > 0:00:40- What do you mean, a steroid or a cortisone?- Cortisone, I apologise.
0:00:40 > 0:00:44- Because they're different. - I understand, believe me.
0:00:44 > 0:00:48One is actually anabolic and one is actually catabolic.
0:00:50 > 0:00:52Know what they've done with the money?
0:00:52 > 0:00:54I just told you I don't know.
0:00:54 > 0:00:58- Was it earmarked...- Which part of "I don't know" do you not understand?
0:01:00 > 0:01:04- I'm just trying to make sure your testimony is clear.- How many times do I have to say it?
0:01:04 > 0:01:06It can't be any clear than "I've never taken drugs".
0:01:06 > 0:01:08How clear is that?
0:01:08 > 0:01:16This programme contains some strong language.
0:01:16 > 0:01:20His name is Lance Armstrong, and today, if his legs feel strong,
0:01:20 > 0:01:22this 21-year-old Texan can become
0:01:22 > 0:01:25cycling's first million-dollar baby.
0:01:26 > 0:01:29Regardless of the million-dollar prize,
0:01:29 > 0:01:31it's been a race that I wanted to win all year long
0:01:31 > 0:01:35and now with that staring me in the face, it's an even bigger race.
0:01:35 > 0:01:39He's going for his third consecutive victory with only today's four states championship
0:01:39 > 0:01:42standing in the way of winning the Thrift Drug Triple Crown -
0:01:42 > 0:01:43look out Philadelphia,
0:01:43 > 0:01:45Lance is coming to town!
0:01:46 > 0:01:49There was this million-dollar prize, if Lance Armstrong
0:01:49 > 0:01:52could win, so all the pressure was on him, it was on the team.
0:01:54 > 0:01:57Thing is, he was the favourite going in - he was strong,
0:01:57 > 0:01:58he was beating up on everybody.
0:01:58 > 0:02:01I'll be disappointed with anything but a win.
0:02:03 > 0:02:05Lance had the chance to win it.
0:02:05 > 0:02:09But he knows, the man to beat that day, it was me.
0:02:12 > 0:02:17Philadelphia - it was my race, every year I was preparing for that race.
0:02:17 > 0:02:19And Frankie Andreu of Motorola
0:02:19 > 0:02:21who has slowed down the brakes...
0:02:21 > 0:02:25I remember Lance made a deal with some Italians.
0:02:25 > 0:02:27Stephen Swart,
0:02:27 > 0:02:32Davis Phinney, Tommy, the team have this deal with Lance.
0:02:32 > 0:02:37Lance Armstrong is flying up the wall, making it look almost effortless!
0:02:38 > 0:02:41The last three laps is when the race is decided.
0:02:42 > 0:02:44That's when Lance starts talking to me,
0:02:44 > 0:02:47he wants to make sure that I was in the plan,
0:02:47 > 0:02:49didn't want to take any risk.
0:02:50 > 0:02:52And he say, "We make a deal,
0:02:52 > 0:02:54"and I know you're the only one can come with me,
0:02:54 > 0:02:56"but don't come with me."
0:02:56 > 0:02:58And right on cue, Lance is out of the saddle,
0:02:58 > 0:03:00pushing himself into a higher gear.
0:03:00 > 0:03:04On my heart, on my deep heart, I don't want to do it,
0:03:04 > 0:03:08but when you have eight team-mates, you can't go against the team.
0:03:08 > 0:03:12The group could do nothing but watch Lance dance away into the lead
0:03:12 > 0:03:15as they, compared to Lance, seemed to be standing still.
0:03:15 > 0:03:20And so I pulled back and see him going. And he went.
0:03:23 > 0:03:26CHEERING
0:03:26 > 0:03:29And true to form, Lance doesn't disappoint them.
0:03:29 > 0:03:32Cycling's first million-dollar man, US Pro champion!
0:03:32 > 0:03:35Deep inside, I feel terrible, because I know I could have,
0:03:35 > 0:03:36I could have won it.
0:03:36 > 0:03:40For Lance, a joyous celebration with his mother.
0:03:40 > 0:03:44The success that Lance has seen and will continue to see
0:03:44 > 0:03:48of course makes me very proud, there's not a better gift.
0:03:48 > 0:03:51Lance has rolled the dice and come up a winner.
0:03:51 > 0:03:55It's a big day for me but I think it's a bigger day for cycling,
0:03:55 > 0:03:57everybody won today.
0:03:58 > 0:04:00As far as I know, Philly's been going around for 30 years
0:04:00 > 0:04:02and I don't think that's ever been done before.
0:04:02 > 0:04:04So, that's a huge chunk of change.
0:04:08 > 0:04:13After the race, Lance come to my room,
0:04:13 > 0:04:18with a cake box, a metal cake box, a Panettone
0:04:18 > 0:04:21and he just gave it to me and say "Merry Christmas".
0:04:25 > 0:04:28It was, like, 100,000.
0:04:29 > 0:04:31Cash.
0:04:31 > 0:04:34'This was a... This was a Lance Armstrong specialty.'
0:04:37 > 0:04:39'I really want to win a classic.'
0:04:39 > 0:04:41I mean, if you're going to put a lot of time into it,
0:04:41 > 0:04:43if I'm going to be 18, 19, 20 years old
0:04:43 > 0:04:45and I'm going to give up an education,
0:04:45 > 0:04:47- if I'm going to give up... - That is what you did?
0:04:47 > 0:04:50Yeah, if I'm going to give up time at home,
0:04:50 > 0:04:53sure, it better be rewarding, in terms of money.
0:04:53 > 0:04:55'Always in the back of Lance's mind'
0:04:55 > 0:04:59was that great fortunes can be made in professional road racing.
0:04:59 > 0:05:05And for a poor kid growing up, hard scrabble in Texas, it's important.
0:05:05 > 0:05:10The next progression is to race in Europe, in the biggest pro races.
0:05:13 > 0:05:15Como, Italy, was kind of like the American base.
0:05:15 > 0:05:18A lot of 7-Eleven guys were living there, and at that time,
0:05:18 > 0:05:19Lance and I,
0:05:19 > 0:05:21I don't know how we got into the discussion, but we decided,
0:05:21 > 0:05:25"Hey, we'll live together for next year" and so I was like, "Sweet.
0:05:25 > 0:05:26"It'll be good, it'll be fun."
0:05:26 > 0:05:29It was great. You know, cooking, having risotto.
0:05:29 > 0:05:33I remember eating watermelon out on the balcony and we had this bad little car,
0:05:33 > 0:05:35that we used to get around.
0:05:35 > 0:05:36I mean, we weren't teenagers,
0:05:36 > 0:05:39but it was like teenagers just hanging out in Europe.
0:05:39 > 0:05:43Frankie was Lance's closest friend, and because I was dating Frankie,
0:05:43 > 0:05:48I became friends with Lance as well, and he was fun.
0:05:48 > 0:05:49He was fun to hang out with.
0:05:49 > 0:05:52And Lance and I had a unique relationship,
0:05:52 > 0:05:58because so many people from early on would just kow-tow to him,
0:05:58 > 0:06:04but with Lance, he would try to rib me, and try to just get me going,
0:06:04 > 0:06:08and so we would butt heads and we would argue.
0:06:08 > 0:06:14But we kind of, I think, enjoyed getting under each other's skin.
0:06:19 > 0:06:22Hello again, and welcome back to the Tour de France.
0:06:22 > 0:06:26We're at Stage 8 this morning and the sun is still shining...
0:06:26 > 0:06:28- The Tour de France... - HE LAUGHS
0:06:28 > 0:06:30..REALLY hard.
0:06:31 > 0:06:35Racing bikes in Europe is bad for you, it's not healthy.
0:06:35 > 0:06:38You sacrifice a lot to be successful.
0:06:38 > 0:06:40CAR HORNS BEEP
0:06:43 > 0:06:46At the Tour de France, I was rooming with Lance, and I was like,
0:06:46 > 0:06:48"Lance, this is your day. This is the one you can win.
0:06:48 > 0:06:50And he was like, "Really, you think so? I'm like, "Yeah!"
0:06:50 > 0:06:53Armstrong is fifth down the line...
0:06:53 > 0:06:55Armstrong has the advantage...
0:06:55 > 0:06:57It's got, like, a little 6K climb at the end,
0:06:57 > 0:06:59I mean, it's power downhill sprint, it's perfect.
0:06:59 > 0:07:02And on that day, the whole team committed,
0:07:02 > 0:07:04led him out to the bottom of that climb
0:07:04 > 0:07:06and pretty much, "All right, go!"
0:07:06 > 0:07:10Armstrong boxed in by Dominique Arnould, who won the first stage of the Tour a year ago.
0:07:10 > 0:07:13They've pushed Armstrong very, very wide indeed as Pensec goes
0:07:13 > 0:07:16and Pensec really isn't a sprinter, this would be a surprise.
0:07:16 > 0:07:20Ronan Pensec leading out, now Armstrong goes, on the left of the picture,
0:07:20 > 0:07:24Lance Armstrong in his first Tour de France, they all said he was too young,
0:07:24 > 0:07:26but he gets it on the line!
0:07:27 > 0:07:32We met at the Motorola Hotel, he was only 21 years of age, he was riding
0:07:32 > 0:07:33the Tour for the first time
0:07:33 > 0:07:36and in that pathetic way of sports writers,
0:07:36 > 0:07:39we like to be able to say at some future point,
0:07:39 > 0:07:40"Oh, you know,
0:07:40 > 0:07:42"I interviewed Lance when he was just a kid in his first Tour",
0:07:42 > 0:07:44it was going to be like a badge of honour.
0:07:44 > 0:07:47That was a lot of fun. That was really -
0:07:47 > 0:07:50I think, just the way it went down with the last climb
0:07:50 > 0:07:54and guys were attacking and I was so motivated...
0:07:54 > 0:07:58When I asked him about what he felt like coming towards the end of race,
0:07:58 > 0:08:02he said, "Oh, when I get in the situation with the little group of 6 or 8 riders
0:08:02 > 0:08:08"and I know I've got a real chance of winning" he said, "I start to shriek and my body shakes.
0:08:08 > 0:08:12"And I think about my mum - she didn't raise a quitter."
0:08:16 > 0:08:20I had this sense of a guy who just wouldn't be beaten.
0:08:21 > 0:08:24Who through the force of his will and his personality,
0:08:24 > 0:08:27became almost somebody different.
0:08:28 > 0:08:29There's Dekker on the floor again!
0:08:29 > 0:08:32And Lance Armstrong has sprinted the gap closed...
0:08:32 > 0:08:34Lance Armstrong, who has joined...
0:08:34 > 0:08:37Now he's looking back and seeing nobody
0:08:37 > 0:08:39as he become champion of the world.
0:08:39 > 0:08:41Lance Armstrong, 21 years of age,
0:08:41 > 0:08:46is America's second only World ever Road Race Champion,
0:08:46 > 0:08:49beating the greatest man of the moment in world cycling,
0:08:49 > 0:08:50Miguel Indurain.
0:08:50 > 0:08:53He raised a smile there, but I think Miguel, very disappointed.
0:08:56 > 0:08:58And could it be that we're watching the man
0:08:58 > 0:09:01who will replace the great Greg LeMond in the years ahead,
0:09:01 > 0:09:02Lance Armstrong now.
0:09:09 > 0:09:14Indurain goes now, in what to him will hopefully re-establish him
0:09:14 > 0:09:15as the best rider...
0:09:15 > 0:09:16'Through 1993,'
0:09:16 > 0:09:19the races just increased, the speeds were so dramatic,
0:09:19 > 0:09:21it was night and day.
0:09:21 > 0:09:24One of the riders was told what was going on in the Spanish team.
0:09:24 > 0:09:27The rider just said, "Pff, you guys have no chance.
0:09:28 > 0:09:31"We're doing EPO, growth hormone, testosterone.
0:09:31 > 0:09:32"You'll never make it."
0:09:32 > 0:09:36He comes up to the line, 1 hour 50 and 58, 2 minutes precisely!
0:09:39 > 0:09:41Well, the way that guy came by...
0:09:41 > 0:09:44and that was probably part of the reason that I'm so wasted in the end
0:09:44 > 0:09:47because I tried to match his speed
0:09:47 > 0:09:52and he goes along the flats 55, 56, 57 K's an hour, I was 53.11.
0:09:52 > 0:09:54Getting dropped!
0:09:59 > 0:10:04We're talking about the speed of the peloton and this new drug EPO
0:10:04 > 0:10:06and talking about Dr Ferrari.
0:10:06 > 0:10:10Lance would have known Ferrari by reputation.
0:10:10 > 0:10:14Now he wanted to meet the man and start working with him.
0:10:14 > 0:10:17Ferrari had a reputation of being the best in the business.
0:10:17 > 0:10:19If you wanted to win races, win the Tour,
0:10:19 > 0:10:22you go see this guy and he's going to set you up.
0:10:22 > 0:10:25As good as that reputation was, everybody knew that if you went
0:10:25 > 0:10:27to see Ferrari, you were going to get doped.
0:10:27 > 0:10:30So Lance kept it a secret from everyone for a long time.
0:10:30 > 0:10:34And Lance had the intelligence to see that Ferrari was special
0:10:34 > 0:10:37in terms of his understanding of physiology,
0:10:37 > 0:10:40and of the drugs and how they interacted.
0:10:40 > 0:10:44With his charisma and his natural intelligence,
0:10:44 > 0:10:46Lance was able to endear himself to Ferrari,
0:10:46 > 0:10:51become the Adam of what would be Ferrari's creation.
0:10:51 > 0:10:53You keep doing your job as Frankenstein
0:10:53 > 0:10:57and I'll be the best monster you've ever created.
0:10:57 > 0:11:00And Ferrari loved him for that.
0:11:00 > 0:11:03You know, the pupil from heaven.
0:11:05 > 0:11:07The train just started rolling full blast,
0:11:07 > 0:11:09just like, it was just...
0:11:09 > 0:11:11reefing across the landscape.
0:11:13 > 0:11:15It is, he's gone. Armstrong has gone,
0:11:15 > 0:11:19the sort of thing he did in the World Championship at Oslo.
0:11:19 > 0:11:21Is this man on the start of his greatest ever season?
0:11:21 > 0:11:25Travelling at nearly 40mph,
0:11:25 > 0:11:27Armstrong showing enormous determination.
0:11:27 > 0:11:32You couldn't develop a product more perfect for the ravages
0:11:32 > 0:11:34of endurance athletics than EPO.
0:11:36 > 0:11:39Armstrong has done it today.
0:11:39 > 0:11:42EPO was done in secret.
0:11:42 > 0:11:44You never knew what anybody else was doing.
0:11:44 > 0:11:45Even for the top, top guys,
0:11:45 > 0:11:48they never knew what the other guy was doing, so everybody thought
0:11:48 > 0:11:52they had to do more in order to be able to win, or to keep up.
0:11:56 > 0:11:58I was tired of getting beat up on,
0:11:58 > 0:12:01tired of getting dropped and watching fat sprinters get over
0:12:01 > 0:12:05category-one climbs and win. Getting thrown out the back of the group.
0:12:05 > 0:12:08"I'm going to, I'm not going to." You know, sleepless nights,
0:12:08 > 0:12:10figuring out, and then...
0:12:10 > 0:12:14- You did a great job. - We're going, "That's out Frankie!"
0:12:14 > 0:12:16- That's great. Congratulations. - Thanks a lot.
0:12:16 > 0:12:19Have you been enjoying the Tour de France?
0:12:22 > 0:12:23No comment.
0:12:23 > 0:12:25Sure enough, eventually I cracked.
0:12:25 > 0:12:29Yeah, drove to Switzerland and pretty much just walked
0:12:29 > 0:12:32into a pharmacy, just like, could have bought chewing gum.
0:12:32 > 0:12:33It was that easy.
0:12:33 > 0:12:35But then the punch-up started.
0:12:35 > 0:12:38Lance Armstrong, number 61 for the Motorola Team.
0:12:39 > 0:12:41When you're racing, you think you're invincible.
0:12:41 > 0:12:44You think you can do anything, nothing's going to stop you,
0:12:44 > 0:12:46nothing's going to harm you and then all of a sudden...
0:12:54 > 0:12:57From the beginning of the Tour, I knew that I was a step off,
0:12:57 > 0:13:00and a lot of times when your body is down like that,
0:13:00 > 0:13:03then a virus or any illness will move in and take over.
0:13:10 > 0:13:15That evening the phone rings, and I hear Lance's neighbour
0:13:15 > 0:13:19on the other end, and he said "Linda, I don't know any easy way
0:13:19 > 0:13:23"to tell you this, but Lance has been diagnosed with cancer."
0:13:24 > 0:13:29It literally crushed every single piece of me on the inside.
0:13:32 > 0:13:36On Wednesday October 2nd, I was diagnosed with testicular cancer.
0:13:36 > 0:13:38Prior to seeing my doctor last week,
0:13:38 > 0:13:40I'd been experiencing swelling
0:13:40 > 0:13:41and pain in one of my testicles,
0:13:41 > 0:13:43and I'd coughed up some blood.
0:13:44 > 0:13:46On Thursday October 3rd, I underwent
0:13:46 > 0:13:48surgery at St David's hospital
0:13:48 > 0:13:51here in Austin, to have the malignant testicle removed.
0:13:52 > 0:13:54A CAT scan was also performed the same day.
0:13:54 > 0:13:58The CAT scan revealed that my condition has spread into my abdomen.
0:14:02 > 0:14:04At the time, I think most people would have suggested,
0:14:04 > 0:14:07with the brain metastases and such,
0:14:07 > 0:14:12that at best you'd cure maybe one out of three of those people.
0:14:12 > 0:14:16It was awful, and I thought how in the hell does a guy
0:14:16 > 0:14:20who's in such good shape, so young, get cancer?
0:14:23 > 0:14:26The first impression I got,
0:14:26 > 0:14:28which is the impression I get from a lot of people,
0:14:28 > 0:14:30is that he was scared.
0:14:30 > 0:14:34He was certainly looking at very primal aspects.
0:14:34 > 0:14:36You know, saving his life or not,
0:14:36 > 0:14:39and a lot of secondary consequences - his career,
0:14:39 > 0:14:42family, future kids. All that.
0:14:44 > 0:14:48We wanted to go see Lance, and the time to see him
0:14:48 > 0:14:50was after his brain surgery,
0:14:50 > 0:14:54and so Frankie and I made the six-hour drive to Indiana.
0:14:54 > 0:14:58And that was the first time I'd seen him since the announcement,
0:14:58 > 0:15:00and I remember seeing the big horseshoe scar
0:15:00 > 0:15:02on the top of his head.
0:15:03 > 0:15:06We went into the room and it was a football game,
0:15:06 > 0:15:09Dallas Cowboys football game was playing. So he was in there,
0:15:09 > 0:15:12his girlfriend at the time Lisa Shields was there,
0:15:12 > 0:15:15and Stephanie McIlvain, the rep from Oakley was there.
0:15:15 > 0:15:18Chris Carmichael, his coach, was there with Paige, I think.
0:15:18 > 0:15:21And the doctors came in, and when the doctors came in...
0:15:21 > 0:15:23..they said, "Oh, you know, we need to ask you some questions."
0:15:23 > 0:15:26I said, "We should leave, let him have his privacy."
0:15:26 > 0:15:28And Lance said, "No, no, no. Don't worry about it.
0:15:28 > 0:15:32"You guys can stay, no problem." And I said, "OK, we'll stay."
0:15:32 > 0:15:36They asked a few banal questions, and then one of them was
0:15:36 > 0:15:40"Have you ever used any performance-enhancing drugs?"
0:15:40 > 0:15:45And Lance, just nonchalantly holding on to his IV, staring down,
0:15:45 > 0:15:50rattled off, "Yeah, EPO, testosterone, growth hormone, cortisone and steroids."
0:15:51 > 0:15:55And at that point my jaw was, like, holy shit,
0:15:55 > 0:15:57because Betsy's sitting right next to me.
0:15:57 > 0:15:59I don't know what the hell she's thinking.
0:15:59 > 0:16:00And I was like, "We got to go."
0:16:00 > 0:16:03And we stood up and walked out of the room, right away.
0:16:03 > 0:16:05I was furious, because I said to him,
0:16:05 > 0:16:07"That's how Lance got his cancer,
0:16:07 > 0:16:09"and if you're doing that, I'm not marrying you."
0:16:09 > 0:16:12We were just engaged six weeks earlier.
0:16:12 > 0:16:15She was upset that he was taking that stuff.
0:16:15 > 0:16:19She was crazy, like, if I was taking that stuff, then if you're
0:16:19 > 0:16:22taking all that stuff, it obviously is going to affect your health.
0:16:22 > 0:16:26Because I thought, "Oh, my gosh, is this going on?
0:16:26 > 0:16:30"Is everybody doing this?" And Frankie swore to me no.
0:16:30 > 0:16:33Had to do with trust, and is she going to marry me?
0:16:33 > 0:16:35So, you know, it was, yeah, you know, I think she even
0:16:35 > 0:16:38right there on the spot threatened, like, "I'm not marrying you
0:16:38 > 0:16:41"if you're doing all that stuff".
0:16:41 > 0:16:43I was just ready to call the whole thing off.
0:16:48 > 0:16:49Before cancer,
0:16:49 > 0:16:52Lance had signed up for the French Team Cofidis.
0:16:52 > 0:16:55It wasn't know if he would live or race bikes again.
0:16:55 > 0:16:57All of those things were not known.
0:16:57 > 0:17:01I still have a ways to go on the bike.
0:17:01 > 0:17:04Does it sound like some kind of miracle cure?
0:17:04 > 0:17:08No, it's not a miracle. Everything was...
0:17:08 > 0:17:10The therapy was normal therapy.
0:17:10 > 0:17:13I had to do just as much as everybody else.
0:17:16 > 0:17:20He made the decision to go because they were astonished to see him
0:17:20 > 0:17:23there, and then he decided he would carry on to Italy
0:17:23 > 0:17:26and see Michele Ferrari, for what would have been
0:17:26 > 0:17:30really just a friend-to-friend visit.
0:17:30 > 0:17:32That is extraordinary,
0:17:32 > 0:17:34because it indicated
0:17:34 > 0:17:36that in a relatively short time,
0:17:36 > 0:17:39he and Michele Ferrari had become very close,
0:17:39 > 0:17:42and it was also a visit to say,
0:17:42 > 0:17:46"If I come back and I make a full recovery, I'm going to achieve
0:17:46 > 0:17:50"everything I ever wanted to achieve, whatever it takes,
0:17:50 > 0:17:53"and I want you working with me."
0:17:55 > 0:17:57The American Mafia.
0:17:57 > 0:17:59Took him a long time to find a team
0:17:59 > 0:18:02and a structure that would make it worthwhile.
0:18:02 > 0:18:06When I tried to come back, there was no interest. None.
0:18:09 > 0:18:13And then finally signed the deal with the US Postal Team.
0:18:13 > 0:18:15I think that if I were to come back and to win,
0:18:15 > 0:18:20and to be successful, I would consider that a complete recovery,
0:18:20 > 0:18:21as an athlete.
0:18:21 > 0:18:25As much as Lance wanted to win, Thom Weisel wanted to win,
0:18:25 > 0:18:28and he was the creator of the US Postal Team.
0:18:30 > 0:18:36People talk about Lance being this kind of ruthless alpha male leader.
0:18:36 > 0:18:40Tom Weisel was one of those. You know, a ruthless guy.
0:18:40 > 0:18:44Lance's first contract was for minimal wages.
0:18:44 > 0:18:48Weisel said, "Go out there, win races,
0:18:48 > 0:18:51"prove you're back competitive and I'll give you a huge bonus."
0:18:51 > 0:18:55And he went after those bonuses like, tooth and nail.
0:19:01 > 0:19:05Lance, that's 40 seconds on Masolini and one minute and ten seconds.
0:19:10 > 0:19:14On certain teams, you have riders that are acquaintances.
0:19:14 > 0:19:16He was just smiling a minute ago!
0:19:16 > 0:19:18Or co-workers.
0:19:18 > 0:19:21That '99 Tour Team, we were friends and good friends.
0:19:21 > 0:19:23We were just, we were close.
0:19:23 > 0:19:26It was a close-knit group of riders.
0:19:26 > 0:19:30Hincapie, Livingston, Vande Velde, Lance,
0:19:30 > 0:19:32and we would do anything for each other.
0:19:32 > 0:19:35I hate the French. Screw the French.
0:19:35 > 0:19:38Frankie was on that team, Tyler Hamilton was on that team.
0:19:38 > 0:19:41When I got selected to do the team,
0:19:41 > 0:19:43I told my parents. I told them to come over
0:19:43 > 0:19:46because this is probably the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity
0:19:46 > 0:19:47to see me in the Tour de France.
0:19:50 > 0:19:53Lance, Kristin, Frankie and I were driving
0:19:53 > 0:19:58from Milano to Sanremo, and Lance had to make a stop to see Ferrari,
0:19:58 > 0:20:01which was outside of Milano,
0:20:01 > 0:20:06in the parking lot of a hotel gas station...
0:20:07 > 0:20:09..in Ferrari's camper van.
0:20:10 > 0:20:13And I said, "Why are you meeting him here?
0:20:13 > 0:20:16"Isn't that odd, you meeting Ferrari, your doctor, here?"
0:20:16 > 0:20:20He said, "So the fucking journalists don't find out."
0:20:20 > 0:20:24And I said, "Well, what's wrong, if the journalists find out?"
0:20:24 > 0:20:26And he just looked at me and he glared.
0:20:28 > 0:20:31Kristin and I had to waste about an hour
0:20:31 > 0:20:35until Lance was done doing his tests with Ferrari.
0:20:37 > 0:20:40When he was finished, Lance was pretty excited,
0:20:40 > 0:20:44and he said, "My numbers are great."
0:20:44 > 0:20:45And then he got in the car,
0:20:45 > 0:20:48he looked through his rear view mirror, he looked at me
0:20:48 > 0:20:51and he said, "Frankie could get results too, but he's too cheap."
0:20:51 > 0:20:54He told me a bunch of times, that I needed to step up,
0:20:54 > 0:20:57and I should go see Ferrari. You know, there's no way.
0:20:57 > 0:21:00I just felt like if I was even linked as going to see Ferrari,
0:21:00 > 0:21:02that automatically meant I was a doper.
0:21:05 > 0:21:08The danger about EPO and there in France was, you know,
0:21:08 > 0:21:10there was a big bust the year before.
0:21:10 > 0:21:12Riders and staff went to jail.
0:21:15 > 0:21:18French police raided the hotel rooms of several leading riders
0:21:18 > 0:21:20and found stashes of performance-enhancing drugs.
0:21:20 > 0:21:24Another leading rider was missing from the line-up,
0:21:24 > 0:21:25in police custody...
0:21:25 > 0:21:28It was the year after the Festina affair, where a lot of drugs
0:21:28 > 0:21:30were caught within a team.
0:21:30 > 0:21:33The team couldn't risk taking it to the race.
0:21:33 > 0:21:37You know, we'd lose the sponsor right away.
0:21:39 > 0:21:43To get EPO for the Tour de France, we came up with a plan.
0:21:44 > 0:21:47Well, after last year's sensational Tour de France,
0:21:47 > 0:21:49who knows what we can expect this time around.
0:21:49 > 0:21:54Departure of the man everybody is talking about, Richard Virenque.
0:21:54 > 0:21:56Did you hear that cheer?
0:21:58 > 0:22:00The plan had Motorman involved.
0:22:00 > 0:22:03Motorman was a French...
0:22:03 > 0:22:06He used to be a gardener/handyman
0:22:06 > 0:22:10for Lance Armstrong. He loved to ride motorcycles.
0:22:10 > 0:22:12Back to Abraham Olano,
0:22:12 > 0:22:14I think probably the number one favourite now.
0:22:14 > 0:22:18He would follow the race, always stay within probably
0:22:18 > 0:22:20a half-hour drive from our hotel.
0:22:20 > 0:22:22The best finisher of a year ago, Bobby Julich.
0:22:22 > 0:22:25He's based everything on this month, the Tour de France,
0:22:25 > 0:22:27he wants to be the American winner.
0:22:27 > 0:22:30But the man doing great times out on the course, Phil, is Lance Armstrong.
0:22:30 > 0:22:33He hasn't been here for a couple of years because of his illness
0:22:33 > 0:22:34but he's back now.
0:22:36 > 0:22:38Motor Man would basically just wait for a phone call.
0:22:38 > 0:22:42The EPO would arrive, you know, in the evening.
0:22:42 > 0:22:46He's just about done. 8.18, Chris Boardman.
0:22:48 > 0:22:528 minutes and 12 seconds for Abraham Olano
0:22:52 > 0:22:568.09, Zulle has rewritten the finishing order for now.
0:22:56 > 0:22:58And Armstrong coming up now,
0:22:58 > 0:23:00can he get off to a great start in the Tour de France?
0:23:00 > 0:23:02He is aiming at eight minutes and nine seconds,
0:23:02 > 0:23:05he's certainly ahead of Chris Boardman
0:23:05 > 0:23:07at this point, my goodness me!
0:23:07 > 0:23:098:02.51, Lance Armstrong,
0:23:09 > 0:23:13with that performance, I think may have done enough.
0:23:21 > 0:23:25The team doctor, Garcia del Moral, he knew about it.
0:23:27 > 0:23:29Johan Bruyneel knew about it.
0:23:32 > 0:23:35You were right there in the heart of the Tour de France,
0:23:35 > 0:23:38you know?
0:23:38 > 0:23:41Thousands and thousands of people around the team camper.
0:23:41 > 0:23:44- All the way from Indianapolis! - No time, sorry.
0:23:45 > 0:23:48I remember just trying to get rid of it as quickly as possible.
0:23:48 > 0:23:52You quickly just stuck it in, got rid of it.
0:23:52 > 0:23:56then it was quickly hidden away, typically in like, a Coke can.
0:23:58 > 0:24:00It was nerve-racking,
0:24:00 > 0:24:02but yet, at the time, it was kind of exciting too,
0:24:02 > 0:24:05cos you were being such a deviant.
0:24:07 > 0:24:09Sestriere, the first big mountain day.
0:24:09 > 0:24:13Destination's Sestriere, 213km of distance...
0:24:13 > 0:24:16We had a job to set up Lance, to keep him as fresh as possible
0:24:16 > 0:24:18till that final climb.
0:24:18 > 0:24:22US Postal, where the pace-making up the climb was done by Frankie Andreu.
0:24:22 > 0:24:25We had to set the tempo, to be able to keep things together,
0:24:25 > 0:24:28and then riding on the front like a drag race,
0:24:28 > 0:24:30as hard as we could to the bottom of the climb,
0:24:30 > 0:24:34turn and then start riding as hard as I could, like a field sprint.
0:24:36 > 0:24:40When I was watching the Tour on TV,
0:24:40 > 0:24:43I saw Frankie climbing,
0:24:43 > 0:24:47leading the pack up a mountain in Sestriere.
0:24:47 > 0:24:49He doesn't specialise in sprinting,
0:24:49 > 0:24:51he doesn't specialise in mountain climbing.
0:24:51 > 0:24:54He just specialises in being the worker bee,
0:24:54 > 0:25:00so when Frankie was actually pulling on Sestriere,
0:25:00 > 0:25:03it just didn't make sense.
0:25:03 > 0:25:06And so I called a friend of mine in Paris,
0:25:06 > 0:25:09and I said "Are you seeing what I'm seeing?"
0:25:09 > 0:25:12And she said, "Yeah, isn't it great? Frankie's doing wonderful.
0:25:12 > 0:25:15"He's doing so well." And I said, "Wonderful, my ass.
0:25:15 > 0:25:18"He's not a climber, he should not be pulling.
0:25:18 > 0:25:21An attack there by Armstrong.
0:25:23 > 0:25:27Look at the acceleration of this as he chases down those motorbikes.
0:25:27 > 0:25:29Five and a half hours he's been pedalling today,
0:25:29 > 0:25:31marking everything, never looking distressed
0:25:31 > 0:25:34and now he's going to try and tear this race apart.
0:25:34 > 0:25:36That was an unbelievable attack, he took a lot of risk to go up
0:25:36 > 0:25:39through the inside there. There was hardly any room at all.
0:25:39 > 0:25:41Armstrong is so comfortable, he jumped across that gap.
0:25:41 > 0:25:43That gap was up to 30 seconds.
0:25:43 > 0:25:46We're watching the Sestriere stage, and it was shocking.
0:25:46 > 0:25:49It was like, "Oh, my God, he's dropping riders, dropping climbers."
0:25:49 > 0:25:53This man has managed to come back from the face of death...
0:25:53 > 0:25:56One of the mechanics was right next to me,
0:25:56 > 0:25:58and he said, "Il est sur le jus."
0:25:58 > 0:26:02And Armstrong is ripping the legs off this climber right now.
0:26:02 > 0:26:04"Il est sur le jus." Like, he's on the juice.
0:26:04 > 0:26:07And I'm like, "What?" He said, "He's on the juice."
0:26:07 > 0:26:11He is going faster and faster, and he is going to win this...
0:26:11 > 0:26:13I said, "How do you know?"
0:26:13 > 0:26:15He said, "Look at his eyes, his breathing.
0:26:15 > 0:26:17"There's no suffering."
0:26:21 > 0:26:23It's almost like whatever they're doing,
0:26:23 > 0:26:26they got so much oxygen, it's like they're not feeling the pain.
0:26:33 > 0:26:38He's talking on his radio, his phone, and it was surreal.
0:26:42 > 0:26:46And the rain starts again as Lance Armstrong conquers Sestriere now.
0:26:46 > 0:26:48He heads up towards the line.
0:26:48 > 0:26:51Now he's ridden fast and dropped his rivals, mano-a-mano.
0:26:51 > 0:26:53This will be some victory salute.
0:26:53 > 0:26:55It will be a while before we know if it is as the winner
0:26:55 > 0:26:59of the Tour de France, but there are few people in this race now
0:26:59 > 0:27:02will doubt that. Lance Armstrong comes across the line
0:27:02 > 0:27:06winner today of the mountain stage of the Tour de France.
0:27:10 > 0:27:12He is really ripping the race apart.
0:27:20 > 0:27:23And so that night after the race I called Frankie, and I said,
0:27:23 > 0:27:25"What in the hell was that?"
0:27:25 > 0:27:28And he said, "What was what?"
0:27:28 > 0:27:30"What are you doing? What are you taking?
0:27:30 > 0:27:32"I don't believe you. This is bullshit.
0:27:34 > 0:27:37There are a lot of secrets, lot of secrets, lot of...
0:27:37 > 0:27:40It was almost like I was in this just bizarre movie,
0:27:40 > 0:27:42some sort of wild western movie.
0:27:42 > 0:27:46Lance Armstrong, le maillot jaune, soupconne de Dopage...
0:27:46 > 0:27:49But something didn't go right.
0:27:52 > 0:27:54It was the UCI really who alerted us.
0:27:54 > 0:27:58En matiere de Dopage, Lance Armstrong n'a rien a cacher...
0:27:58 > 0:28:00After winning the prologue, you're tested.
0:28:00 > 0:28:02But then everybody saw you speaking to the Italians
0:28:02 > 0:28:04so is it just an English language ban?
0:28:04 > 0:28:07When Lance was tested for that, when the results came back,
0:28:07 > 0:28:11he had high levels of corticosteroids in his system.
0:28:11 > 0:28:13Cortisone definitely worked.
0:28:13 > 0:28:16You know, you could push through to a whole 'nother level on it,
0:28:16 > 0:28:20so over the years, I myself took cortisone many times -
0:28:20 > 0:28:23not for injuries, but for performance enhancement.
0:28:23 > 0:28:24Now you're going to speak...?
0:28:24 > 0:28:28- Actually, we were looking for you in there.- You were? OK.
0:28:29 > 0:28:32Lance had asked us to pick up something from the Spanish doctor in Spain.
0:28:32 > 0:28:35What these people need to remember is that I was
0:28:35 > 0:28:38the World Champion in 1993 when nobody had heard of drugs.
0:28:38 > 0:28:41So I went down to Spain, picked up the product.
0:28:41 > 0:28:43That was cloak and dagger.
0:28:43 > 0:28:45Nobody had heard of EPO.
0:28:45 > 0:28:49Johan, he just kind of passed it as he's walking by, he just passed
0:28:49 > 0:28:52it into my hand and said, "Lovely day." Just to make sure I had it.
0:28:52 > 0:28:56I've proven my class. I've shown my class, from day one.
0:28:56 > 0:28:58Then we were getting back up to the border to go into France,
0:28:58 > 0:29:01there's never a queue at this border.
0:29:01 > 0:29:03There's no secrets here.
0:29:03 > 0:29:07There was a queue. I'd seen what happened after the Festina affair
0:29:07 > 0:29:11and I thought, "Oh, God - I could be one of these that got picked up
0:29:11 > 0:29:15"last year in the Tour," and I must have aged about ten years.
0:29:15 > 0:29:18We have the oldest secret in the book - hard work.
0:29:18 > 0:29:20So, but luckily enough, we didn't get stopped.
0:29:20 > 0:29:23Came back to France and gave Lance the little bottle
0:29:23 > 0:29:25in the car park of McDonalds and Frasiers.
0:29:29 > 0:29:34We needed to come up with a proper plan that we're on the same page.
0:29:34 > 0:29:36So while I'm giving Lance his massage,
0:29:36 > 0:29:39the others from the team came in.
0:29:39 > 0:29:41The problem that had to be sorted was that Lance
0:29:41 > 0:29:44didn't have a prescription for corticosteroids,
0:29:44 > 0:29:48so the idea was then that the doctor would write a prescription for that,
0:29:48 > 0:29:50but backdate it to pre the prologue,
0:29:50 > 0:29:54and just pretend it was a cream that Lance was taking for saddle sores.
0:29:56 > 0:30:00And then as we kind of come to the end of the whole conversation
0:30:00 > 0:30:02about steroids, Lance just goes,
0:30:02 > 0:30:04"Oh, well, now you know enough to bring me down."
0:30:04 > 0:30:06The next day was the press conference,
0:30:06 > 0:30:09and everything could just blow up in everybody's faces.
0:30:09 > 0:30:11To think I'm going to come back into sport and risk my life
0:30:11 > 0:30:13with performance-enhancing drugs is crazy.
0:30:13 > 0:30:16When I tried to come back to the sport, nobody gave me a chance.
0:30:16 > 0:30:17Nobody gave me a chance.
0:30:17 > 0:30:19"So he must be doing something", so it's the same mentality.
0:30:19 > 0:30:22It's the same mentality, it's consistent through and through.
0:30:22 > 0:30:25Tonight, he has some very high-level help
0:30:25 > 0:30:27because the UCI, the world governing body of cycling,
0:30:27 > 0:30:29have just released this press communique.
0:30:29 > 0:30:32They confirm basically that the rider used an ointment,
0:30:32 > 0:30:33and they give the brand name,
0:30:33 > 0:30:35and that he also offered them a medical prescription
0:30:35 > 0:30:38before his test.
0:30:38 > 0:30:41He comes up to the line - 16 seconds, 15, 14,
0:30:41 > 0:30:43it is getting desperately close here.
0:30:43 > 0:30:44Zulle versus Armstrong,
0:30:44 > 0:30:46and Zulle loses! Armstrong is the winner,
0:30:46 > 0:30:50he has achieved yet another page in this fairy story
0:30:50 > 0:30:54that just goes on.
0:30:55 > 0:30:57I'm so proud of my son, always have been,
0:30:57 > 0:31:01and the fact that we overcame cancer, and we're here today,
0:31:01 > 0:31:02in the yellow jersey.
0:31:02 > 0:31:07And when you see him tomorrow in the yellow jersey on the Champs-Elysees?
0:31:07 > 0:31:10A picture without words.
0:31:17 > 0:31:20..the winner of the Tour de France, in a big field,
0:31:20 > 0:31:24is the American Lance Armstrong, and what a ride that has been.
0:31:24 > 0:31:26It will be remembered in the millennium
0:31:26 > 0:31:29as one of the finest sporting achievements in the history
0:31:29 > 0:31:31of not just cycling, but any sport.
0:31:31 > 0:31:36Back in his home state of Texas, they are celebrating a hero.
0:31:36 > 0:31:39The most fantastic feeling, we're just so proud of him
0:31:39 > 0:31:40and this whole team, they just...
0:31:40 > 0:31:42It's absolutely incredible and we're
0:31:42 > 0:31:44so excited to celebrate tonight
0:31:44 > 0:31:46all of us!
0:31:46 > 0:31:50We were talking about how our lives were going to change,
0:31:50 > 0:31:53and so I asked the question,
0:31:53 > 0:31:57"So, what do you think about EPO, Kristin?"
0:31:57 > 0:31:59"Oh, it's a necessary evil."
0:31:59 > 0:32:02And I thought, "Oh, my God,
0:32:02 > 0:32:05"she doesn't care.
0:32:05 > 0:32:06"She just doesn't care."
0:32:09 > 0:32:11- Smile - say cheese!- Howdy!
0:32:11 > 0:32:16Congratulations, friend, on behalf of all of us in Texas and America,
0:32:16 > 0:32:18we're so proud of you.
0:32:18 > 0:32:22He went up and he went up. Lance is on the wheel.
0:32:22 > 0:32:24There's Tyler.
0:32:24 > 0:32:26Take it easy on camera.
0:32:26 > 0:32:29- Luis!- How are you? Are you tired today?
0:32:29 > 0:32:32No. Be well.
0:32:32 > 0:32:37Carmichael and Stapleton, unbelievable. They're so serious.
0:32:37 > 0:32:40The man, the myth - Johan Bruyneel.
0:32:40 > 0:32:43- Say hello to my family. - Hi, family!
0:32:45 > 0:32:46In Texas, all eyes were on
0:32:46 > 0:32:49American Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong.
0:32:49 > 0:32:51A parade was held in his honour in Austin,
0:32:51 > 0:32:53Armstrong's adopted hometown.
0:32:53 > 0:32:56Many people wore yellow, the colour of the winner's jersey...
0:33:00 > 0:33:03STOCK MARKET BELL RINGS
0:33:03 > 0:33:05..proclaim July 29 in the city of New York as
0:33:05 > 0:33:07Lance Armstrong Day.
0:33:09 > 0:33:12..Cycling's biggest prize, the Tour de France,
0:33:12 > 0:33:15the first American winner to lead an American team,
0:33:15 > 0:33:17and in record time at that.
0:33:21 > 0:33:24Nobody believed in us, nobody believed that
0:33:24 > 0:33:27if Lance Armstrong took the yellow jersey, with the help of his team,
0:33:27 > 0:33:29on stage eight, how could they keep it to stage 22?
0:33:29 > 0:33:31They thought the team would crack.
0:33:31 > 0:33:33But that team of seven out of nine guys being American,
0:33:33 > 0:33:35an American team, an American sponsor,
0:33:35 > 0:33:37they were the strongest team in the race.
0:33:37 > 0:33:39And everybody in Paris knew that.
0:33:39 > 0:33:43And I can assure you that next year's Tour de France,
0:33:43 > 0:33:46there will be no, there'll be no doubters.
0:33:52 > 0:33:55Welcome to Futuroscope on the outskirts of Poitiers,
0:33:55 > 0:33:58and to the 87th running of the Tour de France.
0:33:58 > 0:34:03All of a sudden they're talking about this EPO test coming out.
0:34:03 > 0:34:06Le mouvement cycliste est d'accord
0:34:06 > 0:34:08de faire...
0:34:08 > 0:34:12We didn't know exactly when it was coming out, but no longer
0:34:12 > 0:34:14could you feel 100% safe.
0:34:17 > 0:34:18You take a shot of EPO, you know,
0:34:18 > 0:34:21you can get tested the next day or the day after that.
0:34:21 > 0:34:24We weren't 100% sure we were going to test negative.
0:34:26 > 0:34:29So that's when we did a blood transfusion.
0:34:32 > 0:34:35Who was organising all of that?
0:34:35 > 0:34:40Lance and Johan Bruyneel, and the doctor, del Moral,
0:34:40 > 0:34:45had told me a couple of days before we made a trip down to Spain.
0:34:45 > 0:34:49You know, my first time doing it.
0:34:49 > 0:34:53And it seemed kind of, sort of caveman-like.
0:34:53 > 0:34:55You know, taking out your own blood,
0:34:55 > 0:34:58not seeing it for three or four weeks.
0:35:02 > 0:35:05Weather conditions out here really have been atrocious.
0:35:05 > 0:35:08It's only around about six or seven degrees Celsius...
0:35:08 > 0:35:13The night before our first rest day, we were in this small hotel,
0:35:13 > 0:35:17just south of Mont Ventoux, which is a famous climb in France.
0:35:17 > 0:35:2020 minutes before it actually happened,
0:35:20 > 0:35:22they told me, "We're doing the transfusion."
0:35:22 > 0:35:25Re-infuse the blood, tonight.
0:35:30 > 0:35:33I arrived in my room and it was pretty wild.
0:35:33 > 0:35:36The staff had sort of prepared everything, the doctors.
0:35:36 > 0:35:40There was a blood bag taped up on the wall.
0:35:40 > 0:35:42You know, a red tube coming down,
0:35:42 > 0:35:45a tube filled with blood coming down.
0:35:45 > 0:35:49Basically, they, you know, injected me here.
0:35:49 > 0:35:52I have pretty small veins,
0:35:52 > 0:35:55so the one place that always worked was right there.
0:35:55 > 0:35:58And it's, you can see the scars today...
0:35:58 > 0:36:01It was a big needle. It's a serious needle.
0:36:01 > 0:36:03You don't mess around with those things.
0:36:04 > 0:36:07Halfway through it, I'm like, almost shivering,
0:36:07 > 0:36:11because, you know, these bags have been, you know, in a refrigerator.
0:36:11 > 0:36:13So they're almost like, you know, just taking icy cold water,
0:36:13 > 0:36:16nearly a gallon of it, and pouring it down your throat.
0:36:19 > 0:36:21I never did, you know, blood transfusions,
0:36:21 > 0:36:23growth hormone, whatever.
0:36:23 > 0:36:27I wasn't willing to get into a full doping programme.
0:36:27 > 0:36:31Betsy was upset, so that was definitely on my mind.
0:36:31 > 0:36:33A little bit of being scared of getting caught.
0:36:35 > 0:36:37Here is the Devil,
0:36:37 > 0:36:40probably wishing some luck to the US Postal riders today...
0:36:40 > 0:36:43I think we were all pretty nervous, but almost giddy about it.
0:36:43 > 0:36:48We're in the heart of France doing this completely illegal procedure.
0:36:48 > 0:36:51US Postal were pace-making by Frankie Andreu,
0:36:51 > 0:36:52but he paid the price.
0:36:52 > 0:36:56I remember, the third week I was dead.
0:36:56 > 0:36:59I mean, barely able to get through it, and just, you know,
0:36:59 > 0:37:03it's not an option to quit. That's the only reason I got through it,
0:37:03 > 0:37:06but I was getting dropped and in the back, and I was suffering a lot.
0:37:06 > 0:37:10I think he'll just about get in but he's aiming at the time
0:37:10 > 0:37:14of 15.27. We're watching probably the second-fastest time trial
0:37:14 > 0:37:16in the history of the Tour de France...
0:37:16 > 0:37:18I had done a lot to help Lance Armstrong,
0:37:18 > 0:37:20I had done a lot to help the team,
0:37:20 > 0:37:23and I just wanted to race one more year, but they had different thoughts.
0:37:23 > 0:37:25Armstrong rocks and rolls his way home here now.
0:37:25 > 0:37:30His time is 15.01, he wins the time trial.
0:37:30 > 0:37:32Fantastic. I will definitely come back.
0:37:32 > 0:37:34I will definitely be back next year.
0:37:34 > 0:37:37I don't know how many more years, but definitely be back next year.
0:37:37 > 0:37:40He finished 111th, but on Lance's team,
0:37:40 > 0:37:45it doesn't pay to finish 111th when you're at the Tour.
0:37:47 > 0:37:49I would say, Johan, thanks for giving us the vision,
0:37:49 > 0:37:53but we already had the vision, so...
0:37:56 > 0:38:00Here we are at this Tour de France party with hundreds of people
0:38:00 > 0:38:04and everybody is celebrating the cancer survivor's
0:38:04 > 0:38:07incredible win at the most gruelling sporting event in the world.
0:38:07 > 0:38:10What wasn't there to celebrate?
0:38:10 > 0:38:12It was a fraud.
0:38:12 > 0:38:14It was a fraud.
0:38:17 > 0:38:20CHEERING
0:38:25 > 0:38:29Stephanie McIlvain wasn't invited to the Tour De France party,
0:38:29 > 0:38:30which we found very peculiar
0:38:30 > 0:38:33given that she was Lance's personal liaison,
0:38:33 > 0:38:38so she went as our guest and we clicked and a friendship was born.
0:38:39 > 0:38:44Stephanie had been there with us visiting Lance in Indiana,
0:38:44 > 0:38:47and the hospital incident came up,
0:38:47 > 0:38:50and Stephanie and I were marvelling at how
0:38:50 > 0:38:55Lance was snowballing the American media,
0:38:55 > 0:38:58because they were just buying into this fairy tale.
0:39:03 > 0:39:06It seemed like it worked, seemed like it worked.
0:39:06 > 0:39:10Now, looking back, "Oh, my God, what was I doing?"
0:39:10 > 0:39:14But you're so deep into it, you know, you don't even have time
0:39:14 > 0:39:18to take a half step back and look at the big picture.
0:39:18 > 0:39:20I think if we all stepped back
0:39:20 > 0:39:23and looked at the great franchises that have been built...
0:39:23 > 0:39:26I'm glad we didn't get caught.
0:39:26 > 0:39:28I would have been...
0:39:28 > 0:39:30We all would have been.
0:39:39 > 0:39:40It became very divided.
0:39:40 > 0:39:42You were on Lance's side or you were on my side.
0:39:42 > 0:39:45And ultimately, you know, he had control of who was hired,
0:39:45 > 0:39:46fired, and whichever.
0:39:50 > 0:39:52Frankie was a good guy.
0:39:52 > 0:39:54To have your career end
0:39:54 > 0:39:57because you wouldn't get on Lance's doping programme?
0:39:57 > 0:39:59It's just, it's not right.
0:39:59 > 0:40:03Please welcome 1999's ESPY comeback athlete of the year...
0:40:03 > 0:40:06We're all in this together, it's going to touch all our lives.
0:40:06 > 0:40:09We will win this fight one day.
0:40:09 > 0:40:12Lance called me one day
0:40:12 > 0:40:15and said, "We're putting together this foundation.
0:40:15 > 0:40:18"We're going to focus on testicular cancer."
0:40:20 > 0:40:25Tour de France, baby. Lance Armstrong. Maillot jaune.
0:40:27 > 0:40:32Thank you, Lance, thank you! I love you!
0:40:32 > 0:40:36People believed in Lance. They believed in his story,
0:40:36 > 0:40:37they believed in his hope.
0:40:37 > 0:40:39We're all going to leave, I think,
0:40:39 > 0:40:41with a different perspective on this illness,
0:40:41 > 0:40:45and a different perspective on this movement called survivorship.
0:40:45 > 0:40:47I tip my hat to Lance Armstrong
0:40:47 > 0:40:49and to the whole US Postal Team.
0:40:53 > 0:40:57The success of the foundation began to grow and succeed,
0:40:57 > 0:41:01literally in tandem with Lance's success
0:41:01 > 0:41:03Tour after Tour after Tour.
0:41:03 > 0:41:0715,000. Can we go 20?
0:41:07 > 0:41:08Sold, 30,000.
0:41:10 > 0:41:15They approached me about exploring the possibility of coming down
0:41:15 > 0:41:17and running the foundation.
0:41:17 > 0:41:18Sold, 56,000.
0:41:18 > 0:41:21My motivation, my primary motivation,
0:41:21 > 0:41:24in taking that position,
0:41:24 > 0:41:26was the fact that I had,
0:41:26 > 0:41:28um...
0:41:28 > 0:41:31a very personal experience.
0:41:31 > 0:41:34I had been diagnosed with cancer.
0:41:34 > 0:41:38We believe in life, your life.
0:41:38 > 0:41:41Greg LeMond was my friend, and I called him.
0:41:41 > 0:41:43And I begged him.
0:41:43 > 0:41:45I said, "Steve, you won't make it."
0:41:45 > 0:41:50I said, "You are way too ethical. I'm just telling you, don't do it."
0:41:50 > 0:41:54But I needed to talk to Lance.
0:41:55 > 0:41:59We met at a bar and I said,
0:41:59 > 0:42:02"is there ANYTHING that might happen
0:42:02 > 0:42:06"that would negatively impact
0:42:06 > 0:42:10"the work of the foundation and me professionally?"
0:42:10 > 0:42:13And he put his beer down and looked me in the eye...
0:42:15 > 0:42:18..and said, "Steve, you have NOTHING to worry about.
0:42:18 > 0:42:20"We're going to have a good ride on this.
0:42:20 > 0:42:21"This is going to be great."
0:42:24 > 0:42:25- COMMENTATOR:- And there is Armstrong.
0:42:25 > 0:42:28He's not looking good, he's all over his machine right now.
0:42:28 > 0:42:31He doesn't look good, Phil. he should not be riding so far down the group.
0:42:31 > 0:42:34He's obviously having a very hard day.
0:42:34 > 0:42:37This is where you have to race alone and Armstrong's gone.
0:42:37 > 0:42:38A big move by Lance, this
0:42:38 > 0:42:41and no reply coming at all from Jan Ullrich.
0:42:41 > 0:42:43Ullrich has got no answer to this.
0:42:43 > 0:42:46He's fooled everybody in the Tour de France.
0:42:46 > 0:42:48I never expected Armstrong to do this.
0:42:48 > 0:42:51He has ripped the field apart and he is climbing now to the...
0:42:51 > 0:42:54..and he was riding to win the Tour de France.
0:42:54 > 0:42:56Now are we seeing the foundations
0:42:56 > 0:43:00of the man who will win the Tour for the third time in Paris?
0:43:00 > 0:43:03"Yes, that's the one I wanted and I've got it."
0:43:04 > 0:43:07I had been convinced for some time
0:43:07 > 0:43:09that Armstrong worked with Michele Ferrari.
0:43:09 > 0:43:13FAINT ITALIAN VOICE
0:43:13 > 0:43:15I got the Italian police to help me.
0:43:15 > 0:43:18They got me evidence that Lance,
0:43:18 > 0:43:22in the space of two years, spent 13 days in the town of Ferrara
0:43:22 > 0:43:24and the only reason, if you were Lance Armstrong,
0:43:24 > 0:43:27for being in Ferrara, was to see this doping doctor.
0:43:29 > 0:43:32L'americain se rend au conference de presse - comme sur la route,
0:43:32 > 0:43:35il n'a allude aucune question sur le Dopage.
0:43:35 > 0:43:38- Wow!- He had to do a press conference on the rest day in Pau.
0:43:38 > 0:43:40I think this is a clean tour.
0:43:40 > 0:43:43And in that press conference, 16 questions go,
0:43:43 > 0:43:45no questions about doping and then bang,
0:43:45 > 0:43:47first question is asked
0:43:47 > 0:43:49and the doping questions then come like a,
0:43:49 > 0:43:51like in an avalanche.
0:43:51 > 0:43:54And as soon as the question turned to doping,
0:43:54 > 0:43:56Lance did something quite strange.
0:43:56 > 0:43:57I believe he's an honest man,
0:43:57 > 0:44:00I believe he's a fair man and I believe he's an innocent man.
0:44:00 > 0:44:03He started fixing his gaze on me.
0:44:03 > 0:44:07and even though it was some journalist over here who asked the question,
0:44:07 > 0:44:09Lance would refer to me in his answer.
0:44:09 > 0:44:12I've never denied the relationship. Even to you.
0:44:12 > 0:44:14DISTANT MOBILE PHONE ALERT Um...
0:44:16 > 0:44:18People are not stupid.
0:44:18 > 0:44:22They say, "Has Lance Armstrong ever tested positive?" No.
0:44:22 > 0:44:24"Has Lance Armstrong been tested?" A lot.
0:44:24 > 0:44:27But I found that just wholly unconvincing.
0:44:27 > 0:44:30VOICE OF FRENCH TV REPORTER
0:44:30 > 0:44:33Two weeks later, David Walsh called up
0:44:33 > 0:44:35and I'm like, "God, I, I don't know what to say".
0:44:35 > 0:44:38So I chose my words as well as I could
0:44:38 > 0:44:41and I just said, "I'm disappointed he's seeing Ferrari".
0:44:41 > 0:44:43And then David posed the question, now,
0:44:43 > 0:44:47"if he's clean, would you consider this the greatest comeback
0:44:47 > 0:44:50"in the history of sport?" And I said, "Absolutely".
0:44:50 > 0:44:53And he said, "but what if he isn't?"
0:44:53 > 0:44:55I said, "Then it would be the greatest fraud".
0:44:58 > 0:45:00After that comment came out,
0:45:00 > 0:45:03our whole lives changed in an hour
0:45:03 > 0:45:05after that was published.
0:45:07 > 0:45:08We went out to dinner
0:45:08 > 0:45:11and Lance, he said, "Fucking LeMond.
0:45:11 > 0:45:13"His comments about Ferrari
0:45:13 > 0:45:15"and how he's disappointed that I'm working with Ferrari".
0:45:15 > 0:45:18Lance flipped. You know, and at that dinner it was vent session.
0:45:18 > 0:45:21"Who does Greg think he is? I'm going to destroy him",
0:45:21 > 0:45:22all this kind of stuff.
0:45:22 > 0:45:26And I said, "Yeah, but I thought Ferrari's a BAD guy".
0:45:26 > 0:45:28And he just looked at me and he glared.
0:45:30 > 0:45:33And he said, "I'm going to fuck him over".
0:45:37 > 0:45:38DISTANT CHEERING
0:45:41 > 0:45:44Lance returned to the US.
0:45:44 > 0:45:47He was scheduled to throw
0:45:47 > 0:45:50the opening game baseball at Yankee Stadium.
0:45:50 > 0:45:53And he was sitting in his hotel room at the Four Seasons.
0:45:53 > 0:45:55He calls Greg LeMond.
0:45:59 > 0:46:00We were at bag claim,
0:46:00 > 0:46:04Minneapolis airport, I had pulled up outside...
0:46:04 > 0:46:06MOBILE PHONE RINGS FAINTLY ..and the phone rang
0:46:06 > 0:46:08and Greg says, "It's Lance".
0:46:08 > 0:46:10He said, "Oh, come on,
0:46:10 > 0:46:12"your win in '89 was a miracle, just like mine,
0:46:12 > 0:46:15"in '99", I said, whoa...
0:46:16 > 0:46:19That's where you're wrong, buddy, cos mine wasn't a miracle.
0:46:19 > 0:46:22I worked my ass off, I barely won by eight seconds.
0:46:22 > 0:46:24- No miracle there. - COMMENTATOR:- ..by eight seconds.
0:46:24 > 0:46:28He said to Greg, "You're telling me YOU never did EPO?"
0:46:28 > 0:46:31Absolutely not. "Oh, come on - everybody takes EPO."
0:46:31 > 0:46:34And he mentioned drugs that I
0:46:34 > 0:46:38never heard of. Hemasist, er, Hemopure, PFC's.
0:46:38 > 0:46:41He listed probably ten drugs I'd never heard of.
0:46:41 > 0:46:44"Is that what you think I'm on?" I'm like, whoa, um...
0:46:44 > 0:46:47You know, he was VICIOUS.
0:46:47 > 0:46:50He said, "Well, if you want to throw stones, I'll throw stones".
0:46:50 > 0:46:54And he said, "I'll get people, I'll get ten people to say you took EPO".
0:46:54 > 0:46:55Holy shit.
0:46:55 > 0:46:57And Greg...
0:46:57 > 0:47:01just said, "I'm sorry, but if anybody comes out saying I used EPO,
0:47:01 > 0:47:03"I'm going to know it came from you
0:47:03 > 0:47:05"and you paid 'em".
0:47:05 > 0:47:07TELEPHONE RINGS
0:47:07 > 0:47:10Cos I know that Steve was working at Lance Armstrong Foundation,
0:47:10 > 0:47:13I called him just to say, you know, "This is what happened to me".
0:47:13 > 0:47:14'This is Greg LeMond calling.'
0:47:14 > 0:47:16He was clearly shaken.
0:47:16 > 0:47:20And he proceeds over the course of 45 minutes to an hour
0:47:20 > 0:47:24telling me exactly what had just transpired.
0:47:24 > 0:47:26Including the threat.
0:47:26 > 0:47:29The next day, I get a call from Lance.
0:47:29 > 0:47:32And he proceeds to tell
0:47:32 > 0:47:35of his conversation with Greg.
0:47:36 > 0:47:39He was out of control, he was clearly drunk.
0:47:39 > 0:47:41We've gotten reports back
0:47:41 > 0:47:45that, "Oh, yeah, Greg had a drug and alcohol problem".
0:47:45 > 0:47:48I actually had a reporter call and ask me one day,
0:47:48 > 0:47:50if Greg had a heroin problem.
0:47:50 > 0:47:52What was interesting
0:47:52 > 0:47:57is Lance's version was completely different than Greg's version
0:47:57 > 0:48:02and it was certainly at that moment in time I thought...
0:48:02 > 0:48:05HE HUFFS AND CHUCKLES
0:48:05 > 0:48:07I have been made a fool of.
0:48:09 > 0:48:11CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:48:16 > 0:48:22'I packed my car and I drove out of Texas'
0:48:22 > 0:48:24and the next day I resigned.
0:48:24 > 0:48:27Absolutely, I had to learn a lot about the illness
0:48:27 > 0:48:29and I had to learn a lot about my options.
0:48:29 > 0:48:32Mm-hm. Did you ever consider the option of giving up?
0:48:32 > 0:48:33Oh, no.
0:48:33 > 0:48:36- APPLAUSE - That's great. That's great.
0:48:36 > 0:48:38Because it's not an option, is it?
0:48:38 > 0:48:40It's just not an option.
0:48:49 > 0:48:51- CAR HORNS - Tyler Hamilton left the team,
0:48:51 > 0:48:53because Tyler was incredibly ambitious
0:48:53 > 0:48:56and he was resentful of Lance's profile.
0:48:56 > 0:49:01He was a...absolutely driven guy, a bit like Lance,
0:49:01 > 0:49:05had to win and Tyler thought the only way that I can win the Tour
0:49:05 > 0:49:07is to be in another team
0:49:07 > 0:49:10and when I go and leave this team
0:49:10 > 0:49:12I then am going to get a doping programme
0:49:12 > 0:49:16- just as good, if not better than Lance's.- One, two...
0:49:16 > 0:49:19There became more stresses, you know, having to
0:49:19 > 0:49:22work with my own special doctor there in Spain,
0:49:22 > 0:49:24having to organise those trips.
0:49:24 > 0:49:27It wasn't the team handling it. WHISTLE
0:49:27 > 0:49:30The easy part about the US Postal Service cycling team
0:49:30 > 0:49:34for me in terms of doping was it was all kind of taken care of,
0:49:34 > 0:49:35like, one-stop shopping.
0:49:35 > 0:49:37Stuart O'Grady has moved too far back
0:49:37 > 0:49:40and there's been a mass pile-up there, it was Tyler went down,
0:49:40 > 0:49:43and the peloton completely crashing on the line.
0:49:43 > 0:49:46And if Tyler Hamilton left the team, Lance needed
0:49:46 > 0:49:50a young American guy, preferably, to take Tyler's place.
0:49:50 > 0:49:52Floyd was the obvious example.
0:49:52 > 0:49:55He was talented, he was gritty, he was tough
0:49:55 > 0:49:58and he's saying to Johan, I'll do whatever it takes.
0:49:58 > 0:50:02We have to make sure that we're not in a situation like Pyrenees, for example.
0:50:02 > 0:50:04Floyd will remember that very well. Floyd.
0:50:04 > 0:50:07Thanks for pointing that out, yes. I won't forget that any time soon.
0:50:07 > 0:50:10You're 27 seconds faster than... INDISTINCT
0:50:10 > 0:50:12..and 40 seconds faster than... INDISTINCT
0:50:12 > 0:50:15Boys, come on, keep it together. We're going to win it.
0:50:15 > 0:50:18There was a train here and it was dripping with gravy.
0:50:18 > 0:50:20- COMMENTATOR:- Here they are, a blue train.
0:50:20 > 0:50:23And these guys were desperate to mop up as much as they could
0:50:23 > 0:50:24for themselves.
0:50:24 > 0:50:26Because the financial rewards were huge.
0:50:26 > 0:50:29OK, OK, OK, OK!
0:50:29 > 0:50:32This is the best team in the world right now.
0:50:32 > 0:50:35I saw what I deemed a huge fraud
0:50:35 > 0:50:39being played out on a world stage
0:50:39 > 0:50:41and there was no place,
0:50:41 > 0:50:42no place to turn.
0:50:42 > 0:50:44CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:50:44 > 0:50:47Journalists approached me
0:50:47 > 0:50:49and some of them had got questions they'd e-mailed me across
0:50:49 > 0:50:53and stuff were very close to what was going on.
0:50:53 > 0:50:55'All the peloton were on Armstrong's side.
0:50:55 > 0:50:58'The sponsors are on Armstrong's side.
0:50:58 > 0:51:00'The UCI were on Armstrong's side.
0:51:01 > 0:51:04'Everybody had a stake in Lance being a success.
0:51:04 > 0:51:07'And of course anybody who accused him'
0:51:07 > 0:51:10was deemed an enemy of the sport.
0:51:10 > 0:51:12- REPORTER:- London sports writer, David Walsh
0:51:12 > 0:51:16accuses Armstrong of doping in the book, LA Confidential.
0:51:16 > 0:51:18The book, published only in France,
0:51:18 > 0:51:20quotes Armstrong's former massage therapist,
0:51:20 > 0:51:23who claims she covered up injection marks with make up.
0:51:23 > 0:51:26I remember I was sweeping my sitting room floor,
0:51:26 > 0:51:28Sky Sports is on.
0:51:28 > 0:51:31In the corner of my eye I can see the ticker tape underneath it go,
0:51:31 > 0:51:37and it says, "Former Armstrong masseuse, Emma O'Reilly..."
0:51:37 > 0:51:40"spills the beans", blah, blah, blah. I'm thinking...
0:51:40 > 0:51:44I have to say my first thought was, I am going to get David Walsh and wring his neck.
0:51:44 > 0:51:46I'll say one thing about the book
0:51:46 > 0:51:49and especially since our esteemed author is here...
0:51:49 > 0:51:53In my view, I think extraordinary accusations
0:51:53 > 0:51:56must be followed up
0:51:56 > 0:51:58with extraordinary proof.
0:51:58 > 0:52:01And they have not come up with extraordinary proof.
0:52:01 > 0:52:03'Why couldn't it just be proof,'
0:52:03 > 0:52:07that allegations must be followed up by proof?
0:52:08 > 0:52:12And what Lance was saying is that, when you're an icon...
0:52:14 > 0:52:17..who sits as high in the firmament as I do,
0:52:17 > 0:52:21you have to have extraordinary proof to bring ME down.
0:52:21 > 0:52:24And it was true. What he was saying was right.
0:52:24 > 0:52:27Different rules apply to the gods.
0:52:27 > 0:52:28And I am a god.
0:52:30 > 0:52:32Mr Armstrong's legal team
0:52:32 > 0:52:34was very concerned about the book
0:52:34 > 0:52:37and wanted to discredit David Walsh.
0:52:37 > 0:52:40They knew one of the sources was likely Betsy Andreu
0:52:40 > 0:52:43and they wanted Betsy Andreu and Frankie Andreu
0:52:43 > 0:52:46to distance themselves from the book and say Mr Walsh had it wrong.
0:52:46 > 0:52:50Lance told me that his two, his two agents,
0:52:50 > 0:52:53Bill Stapleton and Bart Knaggs wanted to talk with me.
0:52:53 > 0:52:54So I was like, OK.
0:52:54 > 0:52:57You know, I knew what was coming, I knew what it was going to be about.
0:52:57 > 0:53:00He asked me, he said, "Shall I tape the conversation?"
0:53:00 > 0:53:02I said, "Hell, yeah, because they'll say it never happened".
0:53:04 > 0:53:05DISTANT CAR HORNS
0:53:05 > 0:53:09We met in the parking lot of the Tour de France start
0:53:09 > 0:53:12after everybody had, you know, all the riders had left and so,
0:53:12 > 0:53:15I put a tape recorder in my pocket and I tape recorded everything.
0:53:25 > 0:53:27Cos I didn't trust these guys, you know.
0:53:27 > 0:53:29Still don't trust them.
0:53:29 > 0:53:32They talked about how bad it would be for the sport
0:53:32 > 0:53:35if Lance gets in trouble and all this comes out.
0:53:40 > 0:53:42They wanted her to sign an affidavit
0:53:42 > 0:53:47saying she would never go against Lance Armstrong for the rest of her life. Something crazy.
0:54:02 > 0:54:04HE LAUGHS NERVOUSLY
0:54:04 > 0:54:06You can imagine when I brought that up to Betsy,
0:54:06 > 0:54:09"So, Bets, they want you to, er, sign something
0:54:09 > 0:54:11"saying you'll never sue or go against Lance Armstrong" and it was,
0:54:11 > 0:54:13it was just a bunch of cuss words.
0:54:13 > 0:54:16Yeah! Because I saw what they were doing. It was ridiculous.
0:54:18 > 0:54:20OK, first of all Frankie loses his job
0:54:20 > 0:54:24because he won't get on a doping programme and now...
0:54:25 > 0:54:30..they are trying to get me to sign something
0:54:30 > 0:54:32to support Lance?
0:54:32 > 0:54:35Whom I believe is cheating? It's not going to happen.
0:54:35 > 0:54:39There's no argument who the champion is of the Tour de France.
0:54:39 > 0:54:41And when I refused...
0:54:41 > 0:54:43It's been four times now, how do you differentiate...
0:54:43 > 0:54:46It just was not good for Frankie's career.
0:54:46 > 0:54:47- Thank you, Lance.- Thank you.
0:54:47 > 0:54:50- COMMENTATOR:- The yellow jersey is owned by only one man,
0:54:50 > 0:54:53as it has been for the last eight days.
0:54:53 > 0:54:57Lance Armstrong benefited from SCA and Bob Hammond paying
0:54:57 > 0:55:00an enormous amount of prize money for him,
0:55:00 > 0:55:04winning races that Lance Armstrong swore he won cleanly.
0:55:04 > 0:55:07- COMMENTATOR:- ..as he races the line to the victory...
0:55:07 > 0:55:10Total amount to Lance if he won all of the Tour de France races
0:55:10 > 0:55:12came close to almost 10 million.
0:55:12 > 0:55:14Lance, well done. Back for more next year?
0:55:14 > 0:55:16Ha, ha. Probably.
0:55:16 > 0:55:20When somebody consistently goes against the odds,
0:55:20 > 0:55:22the evidence is that perhaps
0:55:22 > 0:55:24the odds aren't what you think they are
0:55:24 > 0:55:27and something else is present
0:55:27 > 0:55:29and quite often that's cheating.
0:55:29 > 0:55:30CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:55:30 > 0:55:34- COMMENTATOR:- He is down the ramp for the last time in his career.
0:55:34 > 0:55:37I've decided that the Tour de France will be my last race
0:55:37 > 0:55:38as a professional cyclist.
0:55:38 > 0:55:42It is the picture we will never see again.
0:55:42 > 0:55:45A rider in yellow we've come to know since 1999.
0:55:45 > 0:55:48You won't believe what the crowd are doing here.
0:55:48 > 0:55:50They are leaping in every direction
0:55:50 > 0:55:54as Lance Armstrong brings it to an end as a winner.
0:55:54 > 0:55:56History in the making, he now retires
0:55:56 > 0:55:58seven times a winner of the Tour De France.
0:55:58 > 0:56:01- ANNOUNCER:- Lance Armstrong!
0:56:01 > 0:56:03The last thing I'll say for the people
0:56:03 > 0:56:04that don't believe in cycling,
0:56:04 > 0:56:06the cynics and the sceptics,
0:56:06 > 0:56:08I'm sorry for you,
0:56:08 > 0:56:10I'm sorry you can't dream big,
0:56:10 > 0:56:12and I'm sorry you don't believe in miracles,
0:56:12 > 0:56:13but this is one hell of a race.
0:56:13 > 0:56:16This is a great sporting event and you should believe.
0:56:16 > 0:56:17And, er...
0:56:17 > 0:56:21Vive La Tour. For ever. Thank you.
0:56:21 > 0:56:23AMERICAN NATIONAL ANTHEM
0:56:23 > 0:56:25CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:56:30 > 0:56:33- BEEP - Good morning, this begins video tape number one,
0:56:33 > 0:56:37in the arbitration matter of Lance Armstrong et al
0:56:37 > 0:56:40versus SCA Promotions Incorporated et al.
0:56:40 > 0:56:43Bob Hamman kind of basically felt that he'd been duped,
0:56:43 > 0:56:47he'd already paid Lance, I think four and a half million at that time,
0:56:47 > 0:56:50he baulked at paying the last 5 million bonus.
0:56:50 > 0:56:53Mr Armstrong, my name is Jeff Tillotson, I represent...
0:56:53 > 0:56:57'It became a law suit and over the course of about a year and a half,
0:56:57 > 0:56:59'we took depositions, which is sworn testimony,
0:56:59 > 0:57:02'we ploughed through records.'
0:57:02 > 0:57:03TELEPHONE RINGS FAINTLY
0:57:05 > 0:57:08The day before the SCA deposition, I received a phone call from him.
0:57:08 > 0:57:10Lance, "just calling to see how you're doing".
0:57:10 > 0:57:13I hadn't talked to the guy in like, four years, you know
0:57:13 > 0:57:16and saying, "Ah, you know I heard this is,
0:57:16 > 0:57:18"Kathy LeMond said this, that Betsy said this".
0:57:18 > 0:57:20He was prying for information and questions
0:57:20 > 0:57:24and trying to say, "Hey, I'm here".
0:57:24 > 0:57:25I'm right at your door.
0:57:25 > 0:57:28And then he showed up at the door STEP.
0:57:28 > 0:57:30So when I showed up,
0:57:30 > 0:57:33I saw Lance walking in the hallway
0:57:33 > 0:57:35and I thought, "Oh, my gosh".
0:57:35 > 0:57:38She was so nervous, she was literally shaking,
0:57:38 > 0:57:40because there she was, to give a deposition
0:57:40 > 0:57:43and Lance Armstrong had flown from Austin,
0:57:43 > 0:57:46on his private jet to watch her testify about him
0:57:46 > 0:57:49and she knew exactly what kind of message he was trying to send.
0:57:49 > 0:57:53There was a long table in the conference room
0:57:53 > 0:57:57and it was me and my lawyer
0:57:57 > 0:58:00and Lance.
0:58:00 > 0:58:02- I was furious.- Why?
0:58:03 > 0:58:07'So I saw what Lance was doing, how he was on his BlackBerry,
0:58:07 > 0:58:09'how he was on his computer.'
0:58:09 > 0:58:11Because...
0:58:12 > 0:58:14It WASN'T a lie.
0:58:14 > 0:58:17I'm not going to say somebody is lying when they are not lying.
0:58:17 > 0:58:20She was the first witness who effectively said,
0:58:20 > 0:58:23"I don't care what happens to me. I'm going to tell the truth".
0:58:23 > 0:58:25First, tell me where you were.
0:58:25 > 0:58:27Michel's. It's a restaurant in Villefranche.
0:58:27 > 0:58:30I had never been in a deposition before,
0:58:30 > 0:58:32so when I didn't remember something,
0:58:32 > 0:58:35a restaurant, I had leaned over and I asked Lance.
0:58:35 > 0:58:38- It is Villefranche, isn't it, Lance? - Objection.- Well...
0:58:38 > 0:58:41'You can't do that, hold it, hold it, you can't do that.'
0:58:41 > 0:58:44So it was, I was just answering questions honestly.
0:58:44 > 0:58:47I just would like you to recount what took place
0:58:47 > 0:58:49in the Indiana University Hospital...
0:58:51 > 0:58:53The doctor asked him a couple of questions
0:58:53 > 0:58:56and then came the question, have you ever...
0:58:58 > 0:59:01..taken any performance-enhancing drugs?
0:59:01 > 0:59:05And Lance said, yes. The doctor said, "What were they?" And he said,
0:59:05 > 0:59:10"EPO, growth hormone, cortisone, steroids and testosterone".
0:59:10 > 0:59:13Did any medical person ask you
0:59:13 > 0:59:15while you were at the Indiana University Hospital
0:59:15 > 0:59:16whether you had ever used
0:59:16 > 0:59:20- any sort of performance-enhancing drugs or substances?- No.
0:59:20 > 0:59:23Can you offer, can you help explain to me
0:59:23 > 0:59:26why Miss Andreu would make that story up?
0:59:26 > 0:59:28Well, she said in her deposition she hates me.
0:59:28 > 0:59:33I don't know how the doctor phrased the question, but Lance's response was that he had taken EPO
0:59:33 > 0:59:34and testosterone...
0:59:36 > 0:59:38..and growth hormone
0:59:38 > 0:59:40and cortisone.
0:59:41 > 0:59:44Why would Mr Andreu say the same things, if you know?
0:59:45 > 0:59:47Probably to support his wife, which...
0:59:47 > 0:59:50- I don't know if you're married or not, but...- I am.
0:59:50 > 0:59:53..sometimes is...required.
0:59:53 > 0:59:58So your testimony that Mr Andreu was also lying when he said
0:59:58 > 1:00:01- that he heard you say those things regarding your prior use?- 100%.
1:00:07 > 1:00:10- But I feel for him. - What do you mean by that?
1:00:10 > 1:00:13I think he's trying to back up his old lady.
1:00:15 > 1:00:17- JEFF TILLOTSON: - 'Frankie Andreu was under
1:00:17 > 1:00:20'extremely difficult circumstances at that particular point in time,
1:00:20 > 1:00:23'all of which was a result of Lance Armstrong.'
1:00:23 > 1:00:26Did Mr Armstrong ever tell you during that time period
1:00:26 > 1:00:29that he definitely was not going to use EPO
1:00:29 > 1:00:31and no-one else should use EPO?
1:00:31 > 1:00:32No.
1:00:32 > 1:00:35Did he indicate to you that he was going to use EPO
1:00:35 > 1:00:37- or consider using EPO?- No.
1:00:42 > 1:00:44SHE WHISPERS TO HERSELF
1:00:44 > 1:00:48'He said openly and to the public that Betsy was crazy.'
1:00:48 > 1:00:52They implied behind the scenes that Betsy wasn't believable
1:00:52 > 1:00:55and perhaps unstable. Everything you can possibly think of
1:00:55 > 1:00:58'as a way to hurt someone, they basically employed.'
1:00:58 > 1:01:01And what is it you told Frankie after leaving the room?
1:01:04 > 1:01:05I...
1:01:17 > 1:01:22BETSY: His modus operandi, which was, "Don't attack the message.
1:01:22 > 1:01:24"Attack the messenger."
1:01:24 > 1:01:26So, if people don't know me, people are going to say,
1:01:26 > 1:01:29"Well, wait a minute, who is this woman?
1:01:29 > 1:01:34"Her husband stopped racing early. If he was so good, why did he do that?
1:01:34 > 1:01:39"If Lance is dirty, then why hasn't the governing body caught him?
1:01:39 > 1:01:43"Why does USA Cycling back him? Why do his sponsors back him?
1:01:43 > 1:01:47"Why does he keep getting more and more money from him?
1:01:47 > 1:01:50"How come none of these doctors, who allegedly heard
1:01:50 > 1:01:54"what happened in the hospital room, how come they're remaining quiet?
1:01:54 > 1:01:58"How come nobody has backed her up for that hospital room?
1:01:58 > 1:02:00"Look at his legions of fans.
1:02:00 > 1:02:03"He has a foundation fighting cancer.
1:02:03 > 1:02:07"What is this woman doing beside raising her own kids?
1:02:07 > 1:02:09"His problem was never with Frankie."
1:02:09 > 1:02:11And after Mr Armstrong told the doctor
1:02:11 > 1:02:15he was using certain performance enhancing drugs, did your husband
1:02:15 > 1:02:19ever tell you, "That's wrong, he hasn't done those drugs?"
1:02:19 > 1:02:22Not your husband, but Mr Armstrong?
1:02:22 > 1:02:23No.
1:02:30 > 1:02:32LANCE: How could it have taken place
1:02:32 > 1:02:34when I've never taken performance-enhancing drugs?
1:02:34 > 1:02:37- How could that have happened?- That's my point. It's not just simply
1:02:37 > 1:02:40- you don't recall? - How many times do I have to say it?
1:02:40 > 1:02:42I'm just trying to make sure your testimony is clear.
1:02:42 > 1:02:46Well, if it can't be any clearer than, "I've never taken drugs,"
1:02:46 > 1:02:48then incidents like that could never have happened.
1:02:48 > 1:02:50- OK.- How clear is that?
1:02:52 > 1:02:56These are things that are so devious, if untrue, but so powerful
1:02:56 > 1:03:00when you use with people that makes you a compelling liar.
1:03:00 > 1:03:03I'll give you an example. Bad liar - Richard Nixon.
1:03:03 > 1:03:06Sweaty, looks suspicious, said goofy things
1:03:06 > 1:03:08when people challenged him, "I'm not a crook".
1:03:08 > 1:03:10Great liar - Lance Armstrong.
1:03:10 > 1:03:14"I never doped. I passed every test. And anyone who challenges me,
1:03:14 > 1:03:17"I'm currently suing and are proving they're lying."
1:03:17 > 1:03:18'That's a good liar.'
1:03:18 > 1:03:21Greg, who...
1:03:21 > 1:03:24I know has serious drinking and drug problems,
1:03:24 > 1:03:28was clearly intoxicated, yelling, screaming.
1:03:28 > 1:03:31It started off as, you know, "Hey, Greg, I thought we were friends."
1:03:31 > 1:03:34"Friends?! What do you mean friends?!"
1:03:34 > 1:03:38He said, "Well, if you want to throw stones...I can throw stones..."
1:03:38 > 1:03:42'He went after his reputation, his livelihood
1:03:42 > 1:03:46- 'and his way of life.' - Well...let me see...
1:03:46 > 1:03:50being called potentially the biggest fraud in the history of the sport...
1:03:50 > 1:03:52That was a little bit upsetting.
1:03:52 > 1:03:55'He's set out to destroy me every step of the way.'
1:03:55 > 1:03:59I lost, er, a company that did 20 million in sales in the US.
1:03:59 > 1:04:00Oh, he, you know, he said,
1:04:00 > 1:04:03"The sport is full of crooks and thieves and liars".
1:04:03 > 1:04:06I've been at trade shows, where dealers that said...
1:04:06 > 1:04:09I would see and that I knew and they wouldn't even...
1:04:09 > 1:04:11They wouldn't even look at me.
1:04:11 > 1:04:12He didn't like that either.
1:04:12 > 1:04:16'How could this be? How could it be that my career'
1:04:16 > 1:04:19collide with this guy and then he takes everything away from me?
1:04:19 > 1:04:22We also wanted to believe...
1:04:22 > 1:04:24- VOICE CRACKS:- ..in Lance.
1:04:27 > 1:04:30And it was hard to find out that it wasn't...
1:04:31 > 1:04:37I don't know why I'm crying, but it was really hard to find out that...
1:04:37 > 1:04:39this was going on.
1:04:39 > 1:04:41It's been awful stressful.
1:04:41 > 1:04:46If I'd known for a second, I wouldn't have done it.
1:04:46 > 1:04:50'They were very, very mean and very dismissive of Emma O'Reilly
1:04:50 > 1:04:53'as they were really almost of all the women
1:04:53 > 1:04:55'that testified against Mr Armstrong.'
1:04:55 > 1:04:59Afraid that we were going to out her as a...
1:04:59 > 1:05:02All these things she said. As a whore or whatever. I don't know.
1:05:02 > 1:05:05- Primarily...- 'You don't talk about people like that!'
1:05:05 > 1:05:08And also to... By calling me those names,
1:05:08 > 1:05:10calling me basically an alcoholic prostitute,
1:05:10 > 1:05:12'it's just attacking me personally,
1:05:12 > 1:05:16'but it's not addressing the points that I brought up.'
1:05:16 > 1:05:19You know, and that's probably what upset me the most over it all.
1:05:19 > 1:05:22Raise your right hand. Do you solemnly state your testimony
1:05:22 > 1:05:25- shall be the truth, whole truth and nothing but the truth?- I do.
1:05:25 > 1:05:29'We had been told that Stephanie McIlvain'
1:05:29 > 1:05:33would testify that, yes, she heard Mr Armstrong admit to drug use,
1:05:33 > 1:05:35so we went out to depose her in California
1:05:35 > 1:05:38at her place of business, which was Oakley.
1:05:38 > 1:05:42- What kind of things do you do? - I take care of, er...
1:05:42 > 1:05:45Well, I take care of Lance Armstrong and cycling also.
1:05:45 > 1:05:48She called us up and she was in tears.
1:05:48 > 1:05:51"Lance called me! Lance is pissed!"
1:05:51 > 1:05:54And I thought, "Oh, my God!
1:05:54 > 1:05:56I said, "You're going to lie, Stephanie.
1:05:56 > 1:05:58"You're going to lie to keep your job."
1:05:58 > 1:06:00Stephanie needed that job.
1:06:00 > 1:06:03Her husband worked for Oakley. HE needed the job.
1:06:03 > 1:06:06She's got a young son who's autistic.
1:06:06 > 1:06:09They were in an extremely difficult position.
1:06:09 > 1:06:11Where you ever in a hospital room,
1:06:11 > 1:06:13or other part of the hospital with Mr Armstrong,
1:06:13 > 1:06:17- where he said anything about performance-enhancing drugs?- No.
1:06:17 > 1:06:22Er, do you have any recollection of any doctor in your presence
1:06:22 > 1:06:27asking Mr Armstrong, er, if he used in the past
1:06:27 > 1:06:31- any performance-enhancing drugs or substances?- No.
1:06:31 > 1:06:35Betty was going to be thrown under the bus and I finally told her.
1:06:35 > 1:06:40I said, "Betsy... I recorded her and I have a tape."
1:06:40 > 1:06:42TELEPHONE RINGS
1:06:53 > 1:06:56- Greg LeMond! - SHE LAUGHS
1:06:56 > 1:06:58I'm doing well.
1:07:41 > 1:07:43I agree.
1:07:45 > 1:07:48This recording was done well before her deposition,
1:07:48 > 1:07:51so all we could conclude from that was someone got to her.
1:07:51 > 1:07:53Because she clearly changed her testimony.
1:07:53 > 1:07:57Once I made that recording public to the Lance Armstrong side,
1:07:57 > 1:08:00saying, "I think you've monkeyed with this witness,"
1:08:00 > 1:08:02literally all hell broke loose.
1:08:02 > 1:08:06- BETSY:- I said, "You lied, didn't you?" I just had this bad feeling.
1:08:06 > 1:08:08"You lied, didn't you, Stephanie?"
1:08:08 > 1:08:10"Pat was told, if I make the company look bad,
1:08:10 > 1:08:13"that we'll both lose our jobs. We can't afford to lose our jobs, Betsy.
1:08:13 > 1:08:15"We don't have college degrees.
1:08:15 > 1:08:18"Where are we going to go? What are we going to do?"
1:08:19 > 1:08:22She made her bed. She made her decision.
1:08:22 > 1:08:25CHILDREN LAUGH AND CHATTER
1:08:27 > 1:08:29TELEPHONE RINGS TO CHILDREN: That's a foul! Wow!
1:09:09 > 1:09:11So, our relationship was over.
1:09:13 > 1:09:16If you have a doping offence, or you test positive,
1:09:16 > 1:09:20it goes without saying that you're fired, from all of your contracts,
1:09:20 > 1:09:22not just the team, but there's...
1:09:22 > 1:09:27numerous contracts that I have that would all go away.
1:09:27 > 1:09:32- Sponsorship agreements, for example? - All of them!- Er, er...- And...
1:09:32 > 1:09:35The faith...of all the cancer survivors around the world,
1:09:35 > 1:09:38so everything I do off of the bike would go away, too.
1:09:40 > 1:09:43And don't think for a second I don't understand that.
1:09:43 > 1:09:46Either everyone who I had talked to,
1:09:46 > 1:09:48and all the evidence I had gathered, and all the scientists
1:09:48 > 1:09:53and other people were liars, which I found frankly impossible,
1:09:53 > 1:09:56or Lance approached basically a clinical sociopath.
1:09:56 > 1:09:59Someone able to do wrong without remorse,
1:09:59 > 1:10:02er, or care as to who they hurt in the process.
1:10:02 > 1:10:06Er, the former was unpalatable. The latter, er, was scary.
1:10:06 > 1:10:10That we were litigating with someone who would do anything to prevail.
1:10:10 > 1:10:11It's not about money for me.
1:10:13 > 1:10:16Everything. It's also about the faith that people have put in me
1:10:16 > 1:10:20over the years, so all of that would be erased, so I don't need it
1:10:20 > 1:10:23to say in a contract, "You're fired if you test positive."
1:10:23 > 1:10:25That's not as important
1:10:25 > 1:10:29as losing the support of hundreds of millions of people.
1:10:30 > 1:10:33HE LAUGHS: That's an easy question.
1:10:33 > 1:10:38'The SCA case was settled on really what it said in the contract.'
1:10:38 > 1:10:40'Lance has always followed the rules of the Tour de France'
1:10:40 > 1:10:42and he's won seven times.
1:10:42 > 1:10:44Every time he wins, and he's a certified winner,
1:10:44 > 1:10:46he's followed the rules
1:10:46 > 1:10:49and Tailwind has had an obligation to pay him.
1:10:49 > 1:10:53'After all, he was still officially the Tour de France winner.
1:10:53 > 1:10:58'That was really the question and, if SCA went forward with that case,
1:10:58 > 1:10:59'it would have been a big risk.'
1:10:59 > 1:11:03So they ended up paying Armstrong 7 million
1:11:03 > 1:11:04to settle it.
1:11:04 > 1:11:07CAR HORNS HONK
1:11:07 > 1:11:09'We just paid.
1:11:09 > 1:11:11'Lance slipped past the gates'
1:11:11 > 1:11:14and...said,
1:11:14 > 1:11:16"Time to fold your tent, boys."
1:11:18 > 1:11:20Floyd Landis used to ride alongside
1:11:20 > 1:11:23Lance Armstrong on the US Postal Service for three years.
1:11:23 > 1:11:28They've split up in a little bit of, er, disenchantment.
1:11:28 > 1:11:31Well, Floyd Landis has launched an attack.
1:11:31 > 1:11:35He's trying to ride all of these men off. Surely with eight minutes...
1:11:35 > 1:11:38ANNOUNCEMENT IN FRENCH, DROWNS OUT THE COMMENTARY
1:11:38 > 1:11:41..he is one of the great riders of this race once again.
1:11:41 > 1:11:46This is one of the most incredible performances I've seen. It's fine...
1:11:46 > 1:11:49JOURNALIST: Is it nice to come out of the shadows of Armstrong
1:11:49 > 1:11:51in such a golden style?
1:11:51 > 1:11:53Yeah! Again, I've said many times
1:11:53 > 1:11:56I was one of the lucky ones to be part of his seven wins.
1:11:56 > 1:11:59ANNOUNCEMENT IN FRENCH
1:11:59 > 1:12:01APPLAUSE
1:12:01 > 1:12:05Yet another doping scandal hits the very top of the Tour de France.
1:12:05 > 1:12:07- Floyd, right here! - 'Yes, the winner
1:12:07 > 1:12:10'of this year's prestigious cycling race, Floyd Landis,'
1:12:10 > 1:12:12has tested positive for testosterone.
1:12:12 > 1:12:15'It's the first time in the Tour de France's history that a winner...'
1:12:15 > 1:12:19When I look back now, nobody on that team was ever positive.
1:12:19 > 1:12:24No positives. The moment they left, every rider that was a competitor,
1:12:24 > 1:12:27that Armstrong didn't like, boom, they're positive.
1:12:27 > 1:12:30PHOTOGRAPHERS SHOUT
1:12:30 > 1:12:32- MAN:- Remember, it's not a race...
1:12:32 > 1:12:34LANCE: 'It's been an amazing year.
1:12:34 > 1:12:37'I stood up here last year and everybody at their table
1:12:37 > 1:12:40'had little pieces of yellow silicon sitting there.'
1:12:40 > 1:12:43And somewhere along the way, 50 million of them were sold.
1:12:43 > 1:12:46Um... APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
1:12:46 > 1:12:48Woo!
1:12:48 > 1:12:49What showed up in your sample?
1:12:49 > 1:12:52- Nothing. - HE LAUGHS NERVOUSLY
1:12:52 > 1:12:56- Were you doping at the Tour de France?- No.
1:12:56 > 1:13:00I told Frankie, "I can't believe nobody's ever asked you
1:13:00 > 1:13:04"whether or not you've ever done anything or tried anything.
1:13:04 > 1:13:07"But if somebody does, I'm not going to be one of the wives
1:13:07 > 1:13:10"who stand by you as you lie. I'm not going to do it."
1:13:10 > 1:13:12I raced for 12 years as a professional.
1:13:12 > 1:13:15I used EPO at a... at a certain moment.
1:13:15 > 1:13:18There are many people out there that worry - whether they have cancer
1:13:18 > 1:13:21in their families or not - that cancer is going to get them.
1:13:21 > 1:13:23It's the scariest disease there is.
1:13:23 > 1:13:26- And we think we're making a difference.- I agree.
1:13:26 > 1:13:30One of my biggest accomplishments was raising my son Lance.
1:13:30 > 1:13:34I am so proud to be the mom of Lance Armstrong.
1:13:36 > 1:13:40We will lose more than 560,000 Americans to cancer this year.
1:13:40 > 1:13:45Landis was stripped of his title and banned from the sport for two years.
1:13:45 > 1:13:48It's time for a government that wages a war against cancer
1:13:48 > 1:13:51as aggressive as the war cancer wages against us.
1:13:51 > 1:13:55We will beat this dreaded disease, and we will win.
1:13:55 > 1:13:57CHEERING
1:13:57 > 1:14:01- FLOYD LANDIS:- The longer it went on, the more impressed I am that Lance
1:14:01 > 1:14:05could maintain a story like that that was nearly 100% fabricated.
1:14:05 > 1:14:10- HE LAUGHS:- And still live such an obnoxious life.
1:14:10 > 1:14:12And not even try to hide it.
1:14:12 > 1:14:15- VOICE FADES:- I mean, I'm a guy that he's never really even met...
1:14:22 > 1:14:27Mr President, you've been a long-time friend of mine.
1:14:27 > 1:14:29Thank you. Thank you for being a friend and for allowing us
1:14:29 > 1:14:33to be here to talk about this critical, er, issue.
1:14:33 > 1:14:36As some of you may or may not know,
1:14:36 > 1:14:39I've decided to race my bicycle again.
1:14:39 > 1:14:41Um... APPLAUSE
1:14:41 > 1:14:42It...
1:14:44 > 1:14:47Lance came back, because he couldn't stay away.
1:14:47 > 1:14:50Please welcome seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong.
1:14:50 > 1:14:52APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
1:14:52 > 1:14:56Why couldn't he stay away? Because it's like
1:14:56 > 1:15:00the oldest theme in Hollywood that you've ever come across.
1:15:00 > 1:15:06The jewel thief, the bank robber, the assassin.
1:15:06 > 1:15:10They do their jobs brilliantly. They win every time.
1:15:10 > 1:15:12They kill all the people they should kill,
1:15:12 > 1:15:14they get all the jewels they should get,
1:15:14 > 1:15:16they get all the money from the bank they should get.
1:15:16 > 1:15:18Somebody comes and says, "One more job".
1:15:22 > 1:15:27Just one more little turn of the carousel.
1:15:27 > 1:15:30And they can't resist.
1:15:30 > 1:15:35Because that was them living like they'd never lived before
1:15:35 > 1:15:37or they will never live again.
1:15:40 > 1:15:43I cannot guarantee a victory this time, I'm not... What?
1:15:43 > 1:15:44Please stop your whining.
1:15:51 > 1:15:53I'd made several requests to interview Lance,
1:15:53 > 1:15:55especially when he announced
1:15:55 > 1:15:57that he was going to be different this time with the media,
1:15:57 > 1:15:59that he was going to be open and transparent
1:15:59 > 1:16:02and there wasn't going to be any of the stuff that had gone on before
1:16:02 > 1:16:05where he had been very, very difficult.
1:16:05 > 1:16:07And I baited him.
1:16:07 > 1:16:12Lance, we've spoken recently about the return of Ivan Basso
1:16:12 > 1:16:17and Floyd Landis after their suspensions.
1:16:17 > 1:16:21What is it about these dopers that you seem to admire so much?
1:16:21 > 1:16:23Excuse me? What is your name again?
1:16:23 > 1:16:25My name is Paul Kimmage, I work for The Sunday Times.
1:16:25 > 1:16:28I asked for an interview, but I didn't get one.
1:16:28 > 1:16:31Right, and just as a little preface, I might just clear up one thing.
1:16:31 > 1:16:34The reason you didn't get it, Paul, I wanted to make sure that was you,
1:16:34 > 1:16:37because I don't know what you look like...
1:16:37 > 1:16:43When I decided to come back for what I think is a very noble reason,
1:16:43 > 1:16:48you said, "Folks, the cancer has been in remission for four years,
1:16:48 > 1:16:51"but our cancer has now returned."
1:16:53 > 1:16:55Meaning me.
1:16:55 > 1:16:57I am here to fight this disease.
1:16:57 > 1:16:59I am here so that I don't have to deal with it,
1:16:59 > 1:17:01you don't have to deal with it,
1:17:01 > 1:17:04none of us have to deal with it, my children don't have to deal with it.
1:17:04 > 1:17:06- But yet you said that- I- am the cancer.
1:17:06 > 1:17:08So, I think it goes without saying,
1:17:08 > 1:17:12no, we're not going to sit down and do an interview.
1:17:12 > 1:17:14And I don't think anybody in this room
1:17:14 > 1:17:16would sit down for that interview.
1:17:16 > 1:17:18You are not worth the chair that you're sitting on
1:17:18 > 1:17:20with a statement like that.
1:17:20 > 1:17:23With a disease that touches everybody around the world.
1:17:44 > 1:17:46Getting back to the Tour Of California...
1:17:46 > 1:17:48LAUGHTER
1:17:52 > 1:17:54- COMMENTATOR:- Armstrong, shades of his seven victories
1:17:54 > 1:17:58in the Tour de France, he's got happy memories of the Pyrenees
1:17:58 > 1:18:00and they're all coming back now.
1:18:00 > 1:18:04When Floyd has lost all his money, fighting his ban,
1:18:04 > 1:18:07and he calls up Johan Bruyneel and says,
1:18:07 > 1:18:10"Look, will you get me on your team? I need a place."
1:18:10 > 1:18:14And Lance and Bruyneel, both kindred spirits
1:18:14 > 1:18:17in terms of having no emotional intelligence,
1:18:17 > 1:18:20decide they don't want to have anything to do with Floyd -
1:18:20 > 1:18:22he's just a loser, he got caught.
1:18:22 > 1:18:26They don't realise that they're...they're actually
1:18:26 > 1:18:29handling a ticking bomb here.
1:18:29 > 1:18:33Floyd has offered them the chance to diffuse the bomb.
1:18:33 > 1:18:36To just take out that little pin or whatever,
1:18:36 > 1:18:39give him a little, small job in the team, everything is OK.
1:18:40 > 1:18:44They tell him to get lost and the bomb blows up in their faces.
1:18:46 > 1:18:48And when he saw Armstrong,
1:18:48 > 1:18:51who he knew from the first day he'd entered the sport was doped,
1:18:51 > 1:18:54who had shown Floyd how to dope
1:18:54 > 1:18:56and all he sees is this fucking shit everywhere,
1:18:56 > 1:18:59"Hope rides again." "The Great God."
1:18:59 > 1:19:02"The Jesus of cycling is coming back."
1:19:02 > 1:19:06And all the spectators are getting down on bended knee
1:19:06 > 1:19:10and he's thinking, "This is not right. This sticks in my throat.
1:19:10 > 1:19:12"I fucking am going to sort this out."
1:19:13 > 1:19:16'At least now I've confirmed that there's nothing else to lose.
1:19:16 > 1:19:19'Nothing. There's nothing in it for me in cycling.
1:19:19 > 1:19:20'There's no team for me. There's...
1:19:20 > 1:19:24'No matter what I do, it's going to be worse and worse until I leave.
1:19:24 > 1:19:26'Eventually, the levee breaks.'
1:19:30 > 1:19:34- NEWSREADER:- Tonight, Landis and others once close to Lance
1:19:34 > 1:19:37go on camera for the first time for our special report -
1:19:37 > 1:19:39Did Lance Cheat?
1:19:39 > 1:19:40At some point people have to tell
1:19:40 > 1:19:42their kids that Santa Claus isn't real.
1:19:44 > 1:19:46I hate to be the guy to do it, but...
1:19:47 > 1:19:49..it's just not real.
1:19:49 > 1:19:51You're saying Lance Armstrong is a liar?
1:19:52 > 1:19:56Yes, I suppose if that's the question, yes.
1:19:56 > 1:19:58We have somebody that's been under oath several times
1:19:58 > 1:20:00with a completely different version.
1:20:00 > 1:20:02You have somebody that has written a book
1:20:02 > 1:20:04with a completely different version.
1:20:04 > 1:20:07You have somebody that took people's money for their defence,
1:20:07 > 1:20:10some would say a million dollars, with a completely different version.
1:20:10 > 1:20:14He said he has nothing, he's got no proof. It's his word versus ours.
1:20:14 > 1:20:17We like our word, we like where we stand, we like our credibility.
1:20:17 > 1:20:21As Lance Armstrong prepares for his final weekend at the Tour de France,
1:20:21 > 1:20:24a federal investigation into alleged doping by him
1:20:24 > 1:20:28and his former team threatens to tarnish his golden image.
1:20:28 > 1:20:31The investigation was sparked by allegations by former friend
1:20:31 > 1:20:34and team-mate Floyd Landis.
1:20:34 > 1:20:38At the end of July, I got a phone call from Jeff Novitzky
1:20:38 > 1:20:41and one of the first questions I asked him was,
1:20:41 > 1:20:43"What's taken you so long to call me?"
1:20:43 > 1:20:45It was scary, because that whole,
1:20:45 > 1:20:48"This is Jeff Novitzky, federal agent..."
1:20:48 > 1:20:50It put the holy terror of God in you.
1:20:50 > 1:20:54Novitzky was able to bring these guys into a room.
1:20:54 > 1:20:56He would open up his coat and,
1:20:56 > 1:20:59"Oh, sorry I didn't mean you to see my gun..."
1:20:59 > 1:21:02That's what they do. And then he takes his sheriff's badge out,
1:21:02 > 1:21:05drops it on the table, in case you forget that he's a cop,
1:21:05 > 1:21:07and then he says to you,
1:21:07 > 1:21:09"You know, if you lie to us,
1:21:09 > 1:21:12"it'll be perjury.
1:21:12 > 1:21:14"And we will know you're lying to us,
1:21:14 > 1:21:17"because of all we know about this case.
1:21:17 > 1:21:21"And then we will go after you and you'll end up doing prison time."
1:21:24 > 1:21:27A subpoena means you come in. There's no question.
1:21:27 > 1:21:31You go in and you tell the truth in front of the Grand Jury.
1:21:31 > 1:21:32No lawyer by your side.
1:21:32 > 1:21:34I probably told them more stuff, more detail,
1:21:34 > 1:21:37than what I had revealed to anybody else before.
1:21:37 > 1:21:40You know, the information kind of started trickling out of me
1:21:40 > 1:21:44and then, after 15 minutes or so, it just poured out of me.
1:21:44 > 1:21:48I don't think they were expecting any kind of testimony like they got.
1:21:51 > 1:21:54Lance Armstrong didn't appreciate that.
1:21:54 > 1:21:56A few months later, I was out at dinner with some friends
1:21:56 > 1:22:02and...he must have had eyes on me, because he had people contact him
1:22:02 > 1:22:07and let him know where I was, and he, you know, approached me,
1:22:07 > 1:22:09and tried to intimidate me.
1:22:09 > 1:22:12He said he was going to make my life a living hell -
1:22:12 > 1:22:14both in the courtroom and out of the courtroom.
1:22:18 > 1:22:21Lance was really pissed that Greg questioned why
1:22:21 > 1:22:22he was working with Ferrari.
1:22:22 > 1:22:27He helped call the shots. Yes, he doped himself.
1:22:27 > 1:22:28If he didn't win the Tour,
1:22:28 > 1:22:31someone else that was doped would have won the Tour.
1:22:31 > 1:22:34I really felt happy at that moment, because I thought,
1:22:34 > 1:22:36that's it. There is no way back now
1:22:36 > 1:22:38because Floyd had given chapter and verse
1:22:38 > 1:22:42and I thought the tide was now irreversible.
1:22:42 > 1:22:46Lance Armstrong handed me some testosterone patches.
1:22:46 > 1:22:48It's just a little patch that you put on your skin.
1:22:48 > 1:22:53They can't say that. Nobody is that conniving.
1:22:53 > 1:22:54Nobody is that good,
1:22:54 > 1:22:58to try and get away with something for 17, 18, 19 years, no way.
1:23:00 > 1:23:01No.
1:23:01 > 1:23:05If you think he was facing jail,
1:23:05 > 1:23:07he had to have been scared to death.
1:23:08 > 1:23:12He called every single famous,
1:23:12 > 1:23:14political favour
1:23:14 > 1:23:17he could possibly pull in.
1:23:17 > 1:23:20I had just woken up, I'd switched on my phone.
1:23:20 > 1:23:25My brother had direct messaged me on Twitter and saying,
1:23:25 > 1:23:28"WTF, the Feds' case has been dropped."
1:23:34 > 1:23:38When you want to give news that you don't want anybody to notice,
1:23:38 > 1:23:40you put it out at a time when everybody is distracted
1:23:40 > 1:23:42by somebody else.
1:23:42 > 1:23:45This news was dropped late on a Friday afternoon
1:23:45 > 1:23:49on Super Bowl weekend, when America goes into party mode.
1:23:51 > 1:23:54And Lance Armstrong, for one weekend,
1:23:54 > 1:23:56ceases to be relevant.
1:23:59 > 1:24:01Obama was running for re-election
1:24:01 > 1:24:05and it wouldn't have looked good to go after the American hero
1:24:05 > 1:24:09who still had a lot of supporters.
1:24:09 > 1:24:11More Americans entered the workforce...
1:24:11 > 1:24:14It goes to show you the power that Armstrong has.
1:24:14 > 1:24:17He got a federal investigation shut down,
1:24:17 > 1:24:19despite having all that information out there
1:24:19 > 1:24:21and all that evidence out there.
1:24:24 > 1:24:28'I was not proud to be an American at the time.'
1:24:28 > 1:24:31I was so disappointed in the whole system, you know.
1:24:31 > 1:24:35That, you know, this corruption can happen and, you know,
1:24:35 > 1:24:37favours can be granted.
1:24:45 > 1:24:47Travis Tygart picks up the baton.
1:24:47 > 1:24:50He says, "I'm going to ask all these cyclists
1:24:50 > 1:24:52"to come and be interviewed by me."
1:24:52 > 1:24:54This was not just Lance Armstrong
1:24:54 > 1:24:57getting away with doping for a few years.
1:24:57 > 1:25:01This was something by far bigger and greater than just that -
1:25:01 > 1:25:04they took it to an entirely different level
1:25:04 > 1:25:08and no other team, right, won seven Tour de Frances.
1:25:08 > 1:25:10And all the glory and all the profits
1:25:10 > 1:25:13and all the sponsorships that went along with that.
1:25:13 > 1:25:16He was the boss. The evidence is clear.
1:25:16 > 1:25:21He was one of the ring leaders of this conspiracy
1:25:21 > 1:25:22that pulled off this grand heist,
1:25:22 > 1:25:26using tens of millions of taxpayer dollars,
1:25:26 > 1:25:29that defrauded millions of sports fans and his fellow competitors.
1:25:32 > 1:25:35Lance immediately went on the attack, immediately sued them in his
1:25:35 > 1:25:37home court and immediately started saying,
1:25:37 > 1:25:39"You saw it as a terrible, bad, kangaroo court organisation.
1:25:39 > 1:25:41I thought, "Here we go again.
1:25:41 > 1:25:45"He's going to bloody them up. He's going to walk away from this."
1:25:45 > 1:25:49Good morning, everybody, welcome to the Team RadioShack bus...
1:25:49 > 1:25:50'Almost at every turn,
1:25:50 > 1:25:53'the lobbyists for Armstrong and his criminal defence attorney
1:25:53 > 1:25:56and others wanted to bankrupt us and take us down.
1:25:56 > 1:25:59- The boss.- How are you? Good morning.
1:25:59 > 1:26:03'Whether it was claiming to the world media we had not authority or'
1:26:03 > 1:26:08we were on witch hunts or the jurisdiction didn't rest with us,
1:26:08 > 1:26:10there were numerous efforts by them
1:26:10 > 1:26:13to ensure this information never got out.
1:26:13 > 1:26:16Your investigations showed that there were personal threats
1:26:16 > 1:26:20made against riders who had decided to come clean.
1:26:20 > 1:26:23- I wonder if there were any threats against you?- There were, Scott.
1:26:23 > 1:26:30- These threats came from where? - E-mails, letters.- Anonymous?- Yeah.
1:26:30 > 1:26:34Can you remember any of the lines from the e-mails or the letters?
1:26:38 > 1:26:42The worst was probably putting a bullet in my head.
1:26:42 > 1:26:44- Did you take that seriously? - Absolutely.
1:26:46 > 1:26:50Turned it over to the FBI to investigate it. Which they're doing.
1:26:54 > 1:26:58- NEWSREADER:- A new report from the US Anti-Doping Agency reveals...
1:26:58 > 1:27:00Just months after federal prosecutors
1:27:00 > 1:27:03dropped their investigation, the US Anti-Doping Agency says
1:27:03 > 1:27:06they now have proof that the seven-time winner
1:27:06 > 1:27:07of the Tour de France...
1:27:07 > 1:27:09From our end, it was never personal.
1:27:09 > 1:27:11In fact, you know, we gave him the same opportunity
1:27:11 > 1:27:13to come in and be part of the solution.
1:27:13 > 1:27:15- NEWSREADER:- 1,000 pages of evidence
1:27:15 > 1:27:18provided by the agency include first-hand accounts,
1:27:18 > 1:27:19scientific documents...
1:27:23 > 1:27:27Lance believed that he was bulletproof, that he was invincible,
1:27:27 > 1:27:30that they could bring down the Floyds,
1:27:30 > 1:27:32the Tylers, they could bring down anybody.
1:27:32 > 1:27:34"But you can't bring down me,
1:27:34 > 1:27:37"because I am too big to be brought down."
1:27:38 > 1:27:41I thought in light of recent events, I ought to reintroduce myself.
1:27:41 > 1:27:44My name is Lance Armstrong. I'm a cancer survivor.
1:27:44 > 1:27:48I've been asked to come up here and talk about my story of survivorship.
1:27:48 > 1:27:53I'm a father of five and, yes, I won the Tour de France seven times.
1:27:58 > 1:28:01UCI will ban Lance Armstrong from cycling
1:28:01 > 1:28:05and UCI will strip him of his seven Tour de France titles.
1:28:06 > 1:28:09Lance Armstrong has no place in cycling.
1:28:12 > 1:28:14I don't have anything to worry about.
1:28:14 > 1:28:17Nobody needs to cry for me. I'm going to be great.
1:28:17 > 1:28:21Are you doing something to take your mind off the news this week?
1:28:21 > 1:28:23I'm more at ease now than I have been in ten years.
1:28:25 > 1:28:29What surprised me was how quickly it fell apart.
1:28:29 > 1:28:31- NEWSREADER:- This was a day we could not have imagined.
1:28:31 > 1:28:33Nike has fired Lance Armstrong
1:28:33 > 1:28:36over allegations he was doping during races.
1:28:36 > 1:28:41And it first hit me when Nike announced they were fleeing.
1:28:41 > 1:28:42- NEWSREADER:- Over the last ten years,
1:28:42 > 1:28:46he's made more than an estimated 100 million.
1:28:46 > 1:28:49What am I on? I'm on my bike, busting my ass six hours a day.
1:28:49 > 1:28:51What are YOU on?
1:28:51 > 1:28:55And then, almost in rapid succession, everyone left him.
1:28:55 > 1:28:59Anheuser-Busch, FRS sports drinks, Trek bicycles and Giro helmets
1:28:59 > 1:29:02all dropped today like dominoes.
1:29:02 > 1:29:04And suddenly, in a matter of days, it collapsed.
1:29:07 > 1:29:09Oh, my golly, the category tonight.
1:29:09 > 1:29:12Paul, take a guess what you think the category might be tonight.
1:29:12 > 1:29:15Well, could it..? Something about Lance Armstrong?
1:29:15 > 1:29:17Nice going. Nice going!
1:29:17 > 1:29:20Honest to God, who cares about cy...? No-one.
1:29:30 > 1:29:32We were pulling into the driveway and,
1:29:32 > 1:29:35right when we pulled into the driveway, Betsy's phone rings
1:29:35 > 1:29:39and Betsy turned to me and she goes, "It's Lance".
1:29:39 > 1:29:40And our daughter in the back said,
1:29:40 > 1:29:43"Is it really him? Is it really him?"
1:29:43 > 1:29:46He apologised. Apologised for everything he'd done.
1:29:46 > 1:29:49And I said, "You know, it must be... It's got to be a tough phone call
1:29:49 > 1:29:52"for you to make..." I said, "You know,
1:29:52 > 1:29:54"I appreciate it," and I said,
1:29:54 > 1:29:57"I'm sure you're going through hell for the last month and a half."
1:29:57 > 1:29:59I said, "But no..."
1:29:59 > 1:30:02That I'd been going through hell for ten years with this shit.
1:30:02 > 1:30:07The Lance in that phone call was a Lance I've never, ever...
1:30:11 > 1:30:13It was a Lance I didn't know.
1:30:13 > 1:30:15He really, genuinely seemed contrite.
1:30:15 > 1:30:17Um...
1:30:22 > 1:30:23And he apologised.
1:30:25 > 1:30:29He said he had done a lot of bad things to a lot of good people.
1:30:31 > 1:30:35I said, "Lance, you better admit that that hospital room happened."
1:30:37 > 1:30:43Now the worldwide exclusive Oprah and Lance Armstrong.
1:30:44 > 1:30:47So let's start with the questions that people around the world
1:30:47 > 1:30:49have been waiting for you to answer
1:30:49 > 1:30:52and for now I'd just like a yes or no.
1:30:52 > 1:30:56Did you ever take banned substances to enhance your cycling performance?
1:30:56 > 1:30:57Yes.
1:30:58 > 1:31:03- Yes or no, was one of those banned substances EPO?- Yes.
1:31:03 > 1:31:05I was physically sick.
1:31:05 > 1:31:07Did you ever blood dope
1:31:07 > 1:31:10- or use blood transfusions to enhance your cycling performance?- Yes.
1:31:10 > 1:31:13'It was sort of like an old Mike Tyson fight,'
1:31:13 > 1:31:15that by the time you sat down in your ringside seat,
1:31:15 > 1:31:17he'd already knocked the guy out and it was over.
1:31:17 > 1:31:21Did you ever use any other banned substances like testosterone,
1:31:21 > 1:31:24cortisone or human growth hormone?
1:31:24 > 1:31:25Yes.
1:31:25 > 1:31:29'I was, like, holy shit. Wow.'
1:31:29 > 1:31:31"Wow!"
1:31:33 > 1:31:35Yeah, am I jealous and bitter and vindictive now?
1:31:37 > 1:31:41In all seven of your Tour de France victories,
1:31:41 > 1:31:45- did you ever take banned substances or blood dope?- Yes.
1:31:45 > 1:31:49Those five yeses in one fell swoop,
1:31:49 > 1:31:53just wiped out a generation of cyclists.
1:31:53 > 1:31:56Watching the show, for me, was like...
1:31:56 > 1:32:00I never thought those words would come out of Lance Armstrong's mouth.
1:32:00 > 1:32:01It was unbelievable.
1:32:02 > 1:32:07Was Betsy telling the truth about the Indiana hospital
1:32:07 > 1:32:11- overhearing you in 1996?- Erm...
1:32:11 > 1:32:14I'm not going to take that on. I'm laying down on that one.
1:32:14 > 1:32:16Was Betsy lying?
1:32:16 > 1:32:18Erm...
1:32:21 > 1:32:22And he dropped the ball.
1:32:24 > 1:32:26He dropped the ball.
1:32:26 > 1:32:29- She asked me and I asked her not to talk about...- What you said?
1:32:29 > 1:32:33..the details of the call. It was a confidential, personal conversation.
1:32:33 > 1:32:36It was 40 minutes long.
1:32:36 > 1:32:38So again, it was classic Lance.
1:32:38 > 1:32:42His way out, throughout that whole interview, he...he just used me.
1:32:42 > 1:32:45He called to apologise so that when he went on Oprah he could say,
1:32:45 > 1:32:47"Oh, yeah, I've reached out to people to apologise.
1:32:47 > 1:32:50"I'm a changed man. I'm trying to be better."
1:32:50 > 1:32:52It played into his hand. It played into his game.
1:32:52 > 1:32:55My stepfather called me and said,
1:32:55 > 1:32:57"Your mom's having a really hard time."
1:32:57 > 1:32:58And I saw my mom...
1:33:01 > 1:33:03..and I thought, "Oh...
1:33:05 > 1:33:06"..this woman's a wreck."
1:33:10 > 1:33:13What has been the financial cost? Have you lost everything?
1:33:15 > 1:33:17I don't like thinking about it.
1:33:18 > 1:33:20But that was a...
1:33:20 > 1:33:25I don't know, that was a 75 million day.
1:33:28 > 1:33:31- Gone.- Gone.- Gone.
1:33:33 > 1:33:36Do you think he will ever come clean?
1:33:36 > 1:33:38No, I don't think fully.
1:33:38 > 1:33:40Partly because it would burn too many people.
1:33:42 > 1:33:44He's protected Bruyneel, he's protected Ferrari,
1:33:44 > 1:33:47he's protected Thom Weisel, he's protected Bill Stapleton
1:33:47 > 1:33:51and he's protected, I believe, the medical people at that hospital.
1:33:53 > 1:33:56'It's really not about him, but about the people behind him.
1:33:56 > 1:33:58'They put this team together that had knowledge of the doping,
1:33:58 > 1:34:01'that went out and then sold sponsorships
1:34:01 > 1:34:05'to the tune of about 30+ million federal dollars from citizens
1:34:05 > 1:34:08'of the United States of America. It's alleged fraud.'
1:34:12 > 1:34:14I don't know Lance Armstrong now.
1:34:14 > 1:34:17The man I knew in 1993, I had a blast with.
1:34:17 > 1:34:19A great friend and it's hard for me
1:34:19 > 1:34:21to talk about because of how much hell he put me through
1:34:21 > 1:34:22and my wife through.
1:34:25 > 1:34:27He's like the guy who robs a bank
1:34:27 > 1:34:32and then says, "Oops, forgot to frisk the tellers for any money
1:34:32 > 1:34:35"they might have in their pockets."
1:34:35 > 1:34:37So he essentially wanted it all.
1:34:43 > 1:34:46Most of the cheats pretty much stop at the water's edge.
1:34:49 > 1:34:51Lance didn't.
1:34:51 > 1:34:54I had it. And then I just...
1:34:56 > 1:34:59Things got too big. Things got too crazy.
1:35:07 > 1:35:10What Lance never had was the truth...
1:35:11 > 1:35:14..which is more powerful than the corrupt athlete.
1:35:23 > 1:35:26It's an epic story.
1:35:31 > 1:35:32Time flies, huh?
1:35:35 > 1:35:37Who would have thought?