Good evening. Im erin burnett. Outfront breaking news for you. Lance armstrong comes clean. After more than a decade of denials, lies and cheating, seventime Tour De France winner, olympic bronze medalist and cancer survivor Lance Armstrong told Oprah Winfrey the truth. Did you ever take banned substances to enhance your cycling performance . Yes. Yes or no. Was one of those banned substances epo . Yes. Did you ever blood dope or use blood transfusions to enhance your cycling performance . Yes. Did you ever use any other banned substances like testosterone, cortisone or Human Growth Hormone . Yes. Yes or no, in all seven of your Tour De France victories, did you ever take banned substances or blood dope . Yes. In your opinion, was it humanly possible to win the Tour De France without doping . Seven times in a row. Not in my opinion. For months, even longer, armstrong has been feeling the effects of the latest and biggest u. S. Antidoping investigation. This one found him guilty of usin
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obviously no one would want to guarantee a payment to an event that was fixed or to which someone was cheating, because then that s a risk no one would take. mr. armstrong, my name is jeff tillotson. jeff tillotson has done something usada has been unable to do. whether it s a blessing or a curse, i remain the only lawyer to have actually taken sworn testimony from lance armstrong and to have him deny under oath with the penalty of perjury that he used performance-enhancing drugs. you understand that although we re in the conference room of your lawyers you are giving testimony as if you are in a court of law. do you understand that? correct. and that penalties of perjury attach to this deposition just like they would to a court of law proceeding. of course. did you in fact these sworn depositions from lance armstrong and other key witnesses laid the foundation for later investigations including usada s. and as those investigations progressed, the legend of lance