lance a couple of banal questions and then boom, have you used any performance-enhancing drugs? lance hanging on to his iv rattled off e.p.o., testosterone, cortisone, growth hormone, and steroids. my eyes popped out of my head and frankie said, i think we should leave the room, and we left the room. and frankie and i had just been engaged six weeks previously. and i said, that s how he got his cancer. if you are doing that, i am not marrying you. we can stay, we can stay. years later, betsy and frankie andreu recalled under oath what had happened. the doctor asked him a couple questions and then came the question have you ever taken any performance-enhancing drugs. and lance said yes. the doctor said what were they and he said e.p.o., growth hormone, cortisone, steroids, and testosterone. what is it mr. armstrong said in response to the doctor asking him about use of performance-enhancing drugs? i don t know how the doctor
him about use of performance enhancing drugs? i don t know how the doctor phrased the question, but his response was that he had taken epo and testosterone and growth hormone and cortisone. also in the hospital that day was stephanie macelvane who worked as a rep for one of his main sponsors oakley. when we were deposed the day after stephanie called me sobbing. she said her husband was called into one of the higher ups in the company where he is vice president for oakley, one of lance s sponsors. and stephanie was told if you make the company look bad, you re go i think to lose your job. and so we said, that s it. she s going to lie. she s going to lie. she s not going to say it happened. were you ever at a hospital room or other part of the hospital with mr. armstrong where he said anything about performance enhancing drugs?
aw three vials would go into a coke can. we d crush it, give it to a team doctor to dispose. but it didn t all go to plan. lance armstrong was tested for drugs during the tour. and one of his samples revealed a significant level of a banned corticosteroid. emma o riley was a soinier on the team whose duties included giving armstrong a massage after his rides. during one of these massages, she says an urgent discussion took place between armstrong and the team s management. the conversation that was occurring really was what are we going to do? here s a problem. we need a solution. and how do we act upon the solution? and are we happy with the solution? so the problem was lance had tested high in the cortisone. the solution was potential prescription. what was the prescription for, why was he taking it? are we all happy with that?
stay. so we stayed. the doctor started asking questions and then have you used performance enhancing drugs. he rattled off epo, testosterone, growth hormone, and steroids. my eyes popped out of my head and frankie said i think we should leave the room, and we left the room. and frankie and i had just been engaged six weeks previously. i said that s how he got his cancer. if you are doing that, i m not marrying you. years later, betsy and frankie andreu recalled what happened under oath. the doctor asked him a couple questions and then came the question have you ever taken any performance enhancing drugs. and lance said yes. the doctor said what were they and he said epo, growth hormone, cortisone, steroids, and testosterone. what is it mr. armstrong said in response to the doctor asking
yeah, we re happy with that. right. let s go down then and speak to luis, who s the team doctor, and get him to write the prescription. dr. luis del moral has now been issued with a lifetime sporting ban by the u.s. anti-doping sporting agency usada. emma o reilly says he issued a prescription for cortisone cream for saddle sores and backdated it. had he complained to you about saddle sores? no. the whole thing was just a backdated prescription to help kind of explain his elevated cortisone level in the test of the prologue. of course, if he had been prescribed this cream, then it should have been listed as a on the exemption. exactly. and it wasn t because he wasn t taking the cream. it was just purely backdated to cover up that cortisone elevation, yeah.