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The Armstrong Lie Page #7
With new doping
controls in place in 2009,
maybe he thought he had a
chance to ride clean and win.
I thought that his
comeback might have been a way
of proving to his
critics and to himself
that it didn't matter
if he had doped in the past.
I know what I did and didn't do,
so therefore, I sleep at night.
Um...
And I'm one of the greatest
riders of all time.
If you look at the books
and you look at the records,
you won seven Tours in a period where
everybody thought everybody was dirty.
If I win again,
they can't say that.
They cannot.
Well, you can, but...
There'd be a few d*ckheads that
say that, trust me, but...
No way.
Lance,
the return of Ivan Basso and Floyd
Landis after their suspensions
and that they
should be welcomed back.
that you seem to admire so much?
So I'm driving to
the press conference.
And he says, "Kimmage is here. He's
asking all kinds of crazy questions."
I knew the name, but I didn't
really know what he looked like.
I knew he was Irish, obviously.
And so I said, "Okay.
It's on. Today's the day.
"He's gonna ask something. He's
gonna say something stupid."
Excuse me.
What is your name again?
My name is Paul Kimmage.
I work for Sunday Times.
I asked for an interview,
but I didn't get one.
Right. And just
as a little preface,
I might just clear up one thing.
The reason you
didn't get it, Paul...
I wanted to make sure that was you
'cause I don't know what you look like.
When I decided to come back, for
what I think is a very noble reason,
you said, "Folks, the cancer has
been in remission for four years,
"but our cancer
has now returned."
Meaning me.
I am here to fight this disease.
I am here so that
I don't have to deal with it,
you don't have to deal with it,
none of us have to deal with it, my
children don't have to deal with it.
But yet you said
that I am the cancer,
and the cancer is
out of remission.
So I think it goes
without saying, no,
we're not gonna sit down
and do an interview.
And I don't think
anybody in this room
would sit down
for that interview.
You are not worth the chair that you're
sitting on with a statement like that,
with a disease that touches
everybody around the world.
Lance was
threatened there, and the only
thing he knows what
to do is to fight back.
I have to say,
at least in the footage,
you look a little
bit uncomfortable.
Yeah, you think?
That's one of those moments
where you're thinking,
"Why the hell did you
come back to this sport?
"Why do you want to
deal with this stuff?"
I mean, here he was,
a successful, retired athlete, and had
everything he wanted in the world.
Why would you want to come
back and suffer with us?
This sport is not
glamorous at all.
I mean, you go out, ride in
You just suffer on
the bike all the time.
And yet he wanted
to come back to it
and prove a point,
send a message.
Let's go, Lance!
Well I stumbled
in the darkness
I'm lost and alone
Though I said I'd go before us
And show the way back home
There a light up ahead
I can't hold onto her arm
Forgive me pretty baby but I
always take the long way home
Money's just
something you throw
Off the back of a train
Got a head full of lightning
A hat full of rain
Watch your back
if I should tell you
Love's the only thing
I've ever known
One thing for sure pretty baby I
always take the long way home I
The misery of the rain
stung one rider more than most.
Lance's old teammate,
Floyd Landis.
Floyd had ridden with Lance
for three Tour wins.
He'd also won the Tour on his own,
only to be busted for doping.
In the middle of the pack,
he wondered,
why should he be
treated as a cheater
while his old teammate, Lance
Armstrong, was welcomed back as a hero?
Great job, boys.
Congratulations.
Floyd actually
contacted Johan Bruyneel,
and he said, "Can I just
get a spot on your team?"
And Bruyneel said, "Look.
"You're radioactive in cycling.
We can't have you on our team.
"We're trying to portray ourselves
"and you're
a convicted doper."
hypocrisy there, right?
Here's Johan Bruyneel
with Lance Armstrong
as its biggest star.
the details of the truth.
It was pretty tough
for him to swallow that.
The undertow of Floyd's
resentment would, in the end,
lead to the downfall
of Lance Armstrong.
Anybody else want to
write a message on the ground
for the Lance
Armstrong Foundation?
Hope rides again.
Hope rides again.
Lance!
I'm getting my pen ready!
There was a huge
energy at Tour of California.
It was almost like
he's a movie star.
and they were just screaming,
reaching over
the barriers, trying to touch
the great hope.
Will you sign this for my mom?
She's a cancer survivor.
This is a special year.
I wanted to come back,
and I wanted to tell this Livestrong
message around the world.
Some mock Livestrong
as nothing more than
a front to hide Lance's doping.
But I didn't see it that way.
Livestrong had raised over $300
million to support cancer victims.
And 70 million
people around the world
proudly wore those
yellow wristbands.
All right.
Thank you!
- What's he racing for?
- Sorry?
What's he racing for?
He raises money?
Yeah, to help...
And then he gives it to us?
Yeah.
The ones who always
stick with you are kids.
There's nothing like
seeing a kid with cancer.
Visibly with cancer.
And at the same time,
there's nothing like
seeing the parents of
a child with cancer.
So, while I've been that
patient, now I'm a parent.
And I can't imagine being that mom
or that dad in that hospital room,
looking down on a 5-year-old that's
weak, that doesn't want to eat.
Just hanging out? Yeah?
It's a little crazy
in there. Yeah.
There are some
crazy girls in there.
I wouldn't go in there. No.
I've seen him with
kids in the cancer wards.
And I also know people he's
reached out to, and that's real.
It's as genuine as sort of
that fury he has on the bike.
Hello!
We heard lots of
"Maybe he's doping."
"He's not a nice guy."
But all of a sudden, there are
wards full of people who think,
"Not only can I beat this disease,
I can be better than I was."
Good luck.
Ultimately, the chasm between
being this hero and the reality of it
He thought that, "Because I raised so much
money and I gave so many people hope,
"it allows me to do what
I did." No, it doesn't.
The critics say I'm arrogant.
A doper.
Washed up.
A fraud.
That I couldn't let it go.
They can say whatever they want.
I'm not back on
my bike for them.
The Tour of Italy
would be Lance's
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