when oprah was interviewing him. i want to play a little bit of what he said. yes or no. did you ever take banned substances to enhance your cycling performance? yes. yes or no. in all seven of your tour de france victories, did you ever take banned substances or blood dope? yes. so he said a lot. but there was a lot he didn t say. what were some of the major things that he didn t go into? well, i think he didn t talk about the people who around him who helped him for 14 years cover up this massive doping conspiracy. he didn t talk about how it all transpired. right. the people who helped him, the enablers, the people who the governing bodies of cycling. like the uci. that took donations from him. that is to us that s really the interesting thing about this story is, it s not just the doping, it s all the stuff around the doping. and you really get into this in the book.
of the story is that yes, cycling was a mess. and armstrong was a master of it. and others were doping and cheating as well. but when you win at a rigged game, you re going to pay the steepest price in the end. and so that s essentially what we re seeing now. how much money in endorsements was he making, do you know? and so how much did he lose? estimated at 20, 25 million a year at times. he lost about 75 million in endorsements in late october when all of his sponsors fled shortly after $75 million? that s his exactly his estimate. there was also always this belief that which think from what i read in the book that he certainly promoted that his heart was bigger or his ability to process oxygen. i mean there were all these stories about how he was just this incredibly freak of nature and that s why he could do all these things. he is certainly a great athlete. there s no question about that. but when you look at those measurements, like his vo 2 max that was measure
what he said. yes or no. did you ever take banned substances to enhance your cycling performance? yes. yes or no. in all seven of your tour de france victories, did you ever take banned substances or blood dope? yes. so he said a lot. but there was a lot he didn t say. what were some of the major things that he didn t go into? well, i think he didn t talk about the people who around him who helped him for 14 years cover up this massive doping conspiracy. he didn t talk about how it all transpired. right. the people who helped him, the enablers, the people who the governing bodies of cycling. like the uci. that took donations from him. that is to us that s really the interesting thing about this story is, it s not just the doping, it s all the stuff around the doping.
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of killing his wife to be with his mistress. what neighbors say they shaw on the day michelle mcneal died. also new insight into the rise and especially the fall of lance armstrong. how he was able to hide his doping for so long and pull off what the authors of a new book called the greatest sports conspiracy ever. i ll speak with the authors of a fascinating new book called wheel men when we continue. hey, we got our cards, honey!