Comments on: Lance Armstrong Officially Confesses: “One Big Lie” http://www.bicycles.net.au/2013/01/lance-armstrong-officially-confesses-one-big-lie/ The Top Australian Cycling Portal Tue, 21 May 2013 11:09:37 +0000 hourly 1 By: Lance Armstrong: I Deserve to Compete! | Bicycles Network Australia http://www.bicycles.net.au/2013/01/lance-armstrong-officially-confesses-one-big-lie/#comment-116491 Lance Armstrong: I Deserve to Compete! | Bicycles Network Australia Sat, 19 Jan 2013 03:29:04 +0000 http://www.bicycles.net.au/?p=7676#comment-116491 [...] The world knew that Armstrong had doped and it was up to Lance to confess which his did in the first part of his doping confession on Oprah: One Big Lie. While the doping confessions provides some closure, it was the questions that Lance Armstrong [...]

]]> By: Christopher Jones http://www.bicycles.net.au/2013/01/lance-armstrong-officially-confesses-one-big-lie/#comment-116277 Christopher Jones Fri, 18 Jan 2013 09:55:59 +0000 http://www.bicycles.net.au/?p=7676#comment-116277 Betsy Andreu has appeared on CNN after part one of the Lance Armstrong interview with Oprah furious.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTrkBRwT5Uc

“You owed it to me Lance and you dropped the ball. After what you’ve done to me, what you’ve done to my family and you couldn’t own up to it. And now we’re supposed to believe you? You have one chance at the truth, this is it

If he’s not going to tell the truth, if he can’t say ‘yes the hospital room happened’ then how are we to believe everything else he’s saying?

We’re already questioning him”

If Lance suggests that a deal or agreement was made with Betsy Andreu and shortly after the live broadcast it is revealed that this is not the case then is it a lie? Did Lance Armstrong lie to Oprah (ie. the public)? – it was highly publicised as a ‘honest, no holds barred interview, no topics off-limits’.

What would Betsy Andreu have to gain? perhaps closure and peace.

What does Armstrong have to gain, considering he has already admitted to doping? He has already lied under oath – though would an admission to this have legal consequences. The legal implications for Armstrong are still to be revealed so is this (as already suggested) self-preservation…. is it self-preservation at the cost of complete honesty?

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