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Oprah Gets Lance to Come Clean - In a groundbreaking interview with Oprah Winfrey, maligned cycling champion Lance Armstrong finally confessed that he used performance-enhancing drugs during his once storied career. — Naeesa Aziz(Photo: George Burns/Oprah Winfrey Network via Getty Images)

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Straight Dope - In the interview, Armstrong answered a clear "yes" after Oprah asked him whether he took banned substances such as testosterone, cortisone or Human Growth Hormone. (Photo: George Burns/Oprah Winfrey Network via Getty Images)

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Impossible - Oprah: Was it humanly possible to win the Tour de France without doping, seven times?Armstrong: Not in my opinion. I didn't invent the culture, but I didn't try to stop the culture.(Photo: OWN Network)

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At All Costs - Oprah: How important was winning to you and would you do anything to win at all costs?Armstrong: It was win at all costs. When I was diagnosed (with cancer) I would do anything to survive. I took that attitude — win at all costs — to cycling. That's bad. I was taking drugs before that but I wasn't a bully. (Photo: OWN Network)

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Cheater - Oprah: Did you feel in any way that you were cheating? You did not feel you were cheating taking banned drugs?Armstrong: At the time, no. I kept hearing I'm a drug cheat, I'm a cheat, I'm a cheater. I went in and just looked up the definition of cheat and the definition of cheat is to gain an advantage on a rival or foe that they don't have. I didn't view it that way. I viewed it as a level playing field. (Photo: OWN Network)

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Day of Reckoning - Oprah: Did you not always think this day was coming? Did you not think you would be found out at some point, especially as so many people knew?Armstrong: I just assumed the stories would continue for a long time. We're sitting here because there was a two-year criminal federal investigation.(Photo: OWN Network)

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Why Now? - Oprah: For 13 years you didn't just deny it, you brazenly and defiantly denied everything you just admitted just now. So why now admit it?Armstrong: That is the best question. It's the most logical question. I don't know that I have a great answer. I will start my answer by saying that this is too late. It's too late for probably most people, and that's my fault. I viewed this situation as one big lie that I repeated a lot of times, and as you said, it wasn't as if I just said no and I moved off it. (Photo: OWN Network)

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Everyone's Doing It - Oprah: Was everybody doing it? That's what we've heard. Was everybody doing it?Armstrong: I didn't know everybody. I didn't live and train with everybody. I didn't race with everybody. I can't say that. There will be people that say that. There will be people that say, 'OK, there are 200 guys on the tour, I can tell you five guys that didn't, and those are the five heroes', and they're right. (Photo: OWN Network)

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How Did He Do It? - Oprah: How were you able to do it? Walk me through it. Pill deliveries, blood in secret refrigerators.… How did it work?Armstrong: I viewed it as very simple. There were things that were oxygen-supplying drugs that were beneficial for cycling. My cocktail was EPO, but not a lot, transfusions and testosterone. I thought, surely I'm running low [on testosterone following the cancer battle] but there's no true justification. (Photo: OWN Network)

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Atonement - Oprah: Will you co-operate with USADA to help clear up the sport of cycling?Armstrong: I love cycling and I say that knowing that people see me as someone who disrespected the sport, the color yellow. If we can, and I stand on no moral platform here, if there was truth and reconciliation commission — and I can't call for that — if they have it and I'm invited I'll be first man through the door. (Photo: OWN Network)