Tag Archives: doping
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Lance Armstrong’s Interview With Oprah Went Pretty Much as Expected (Video)
Last night was part one of Lance Armstrong’s interview with Oprah. Of course, you probably didn’t watch it, having lost interest in the spectacle once you heard about that whole “Manti Te’o fake dead girlfriend” scandal over at Notre Dame. So we’ve gone through and selected just the most interesting parts. We’ll start with a [...]
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Before Watching Lance Armstrong’s Confession, Watch this Compilation of All the Times He Denied Doping (Video)
So that big Lance Armstrong interview with Oprah in which he admits to using performance enhancing drugs? Yeah, that’s tonight at 9 p.m. ET on OWN—a.k.a. the Oprah Winfrey Network. Of course, now that this whole Manti Te’o mess has come to light, I’m sure Oprah and her people wish they didn’t wait so long to [...]
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Lance Armstrong Admits PED Use To Oprah
Apparently Lance Armstrong finally saw the writing on the wall: everyone knows he used performance enhancing drugs to win his seven Tour de France titles. Time to stop lying through his teeth and ask for forgiveness. So where does one go in this day and age to ask for such forgiveness? To a church confessional? [...]
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Lance Armstrong Tweeted a Big “F You” to His Critics Over The Weekend
Lance Armstrong has been accused of doping by practically every teammate he had during his unprecedented run of seven straight Tour de France titles. And of course, the United States Anti-Doping Agency has concluded that he doped, and that he bullied his teammates into doping. So they recommended that the International Cycling Union strip him [...]
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Want To Know Why Nike Dropped Lance Armstrong? Watch This Commercial (Video)
If you still don’t want to believe the USADA’s doping allegations against Lance Armstrong because you think they’re just out to get him, and if you don’t want to believe pretty much all of his former teammates who’ve said, “yes, he doped like it was going out of style,” then maybe you’ll believe Nike. Yesterday, [...]
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15 Best Athlete Excuses For Failing A Drug Test
Last week we discovered that the MVP of the MLB All-Star Game, Melky Cabrera, was caught using steroids and banned for 50 games. That was a big deal, but hardly shocking, since the guy’s numbers took such a huge spike over the last two seasons. What was shocking, however, were the lengths he seemed willing [...]
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Lance Armstrong To Be Stripped Of His 7 Tour De France Titles For Doping
So did Lance Armstrong have to cheat to win all those Tour de France titles? Probably, yes. Though he’s been the subject of speculation and accusation for years, most of those claims seemed to come from angry Frenchman and jealous teammates. However, recently Armstrong has been the subject of a major investigation by the United [...]
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15 Biggest Doping Scandals In Cycling History
With this being the heart of the cycling season—we’re in between the Giro d’Italia and the Tour France—and with everyone’s favorite one-testicled bracelet salesman (Lance Armstrong) making headlines in sports pages again, I thought this would be the perfect time to do a list of cycling’s biggest doping scandals. But here’s the thing. It turns [...]
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Canadian Paralympics Curler Jim Armstrong Banned For Dopping
The life of Canadian curler Jim Armstrong can best be described as a wild roller-coaster ride. The 61-year-old dentist had represented British Columbia at six consecutive Brier curling tournaments during the 1980s. In 2003, he suffered a car accident, which forced him to sell his dental practice and has placed him in a wheelchair ever [...]
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Alberto Contador Punched A Fan In The Face Today At The Tour de France (Video)
Alberto Contador has enjoyed a very successful cycling career, wining three Tour de France titles and two Giro d’Italia titles. However, some have questioned the validity of those wins due to doping allegations, which have haunted the Spanish rider on three separate occasions during his career. Although it has never been proven that Contador took [...]
