Lance Armstrong discusses how passing drug tests allowed him to win seven Tour de France championships.
According to Lance Armstrong, he avoided anti-doping testing for years by taking advantage of the short half-life of performance-enhancing substances in the bloodstream. After years of rumors, accusations, and denials, Armstrong finally admitted to doping in a 2013 interview with Oprah Winfrey, which resulted in the loss of his seven Tour de France championships and a lifetime cycling ban.
Following a $100 million federal indictment based on the evidence of whistleblowers, including his former teammate Floyd Landis, he settled with the US government for $5 million.
52-year-old Armstrong is well-known in the media and recently spoke on comedian Bill Maher’s Club Random podcast the strategies that let him dominate the sport for ten years. “You would thwart the system,” stated Armstrong. “One of the things I used to say, and I’m not trying to defend it because it’s something I would want to say again, was, ‘I’ve been tested 500 times and I’ve never failed a drug test.'” “That is truthful. That is the actuality. The exam could not be avoided. They tested the pee in the cup that I emptied, and it passed.
