PARIS (Reuters) - The words have changed. The attitude if peu.
If
marked an important moment in the history of cycling, the first part of the confessions of Lance Armstrong doping Thursday left too many questions without réponse.
Also
coldly that he lied for over a decade, the U.S. has finally acknowledged what everyone knew at least for some mois.
With a simple 'yes', punctuated always icy gaze of a man who after all won fights now not to lose everything, Lance Armstrong admitted to doping to win seven titles on the Tour France.
He recognized the cancer survivor who dominate the cycling world was "a myth", a "big lie repeated many times" .
To those he has hurt, Armstrong, who admitted he was a "tyrant", offered an apology. Without plus.
All
greatly lacked passion, may be reserved for second-strand released Friday and conviction.
As if Armstrong doped for years to EPO, testosterone and supported by countless blood transfusions, have been more sorry to have confused fauté.
His biggest mistake
finally? Be income in 2009, possibly triggering the confession of Floyd Landis, the man who has everything arrivé.
"We would not be sitting here, otherwise," he acknowledged in his face-to-face with Oprah Winfrey, in a sad hotel room in Austin, Texas.
What
recognized Armstrong, exactly?
it is doped, without even entering the details. And only until 2005, trying to pretend he finished, at age 38, third in the Tour de France 2009 without tricher.
he was a bully, not the point of having power to hire and fire within a team of which he was the undisputed leader and part propriétaire.
"VICTORY AT ANY PRICE"
Nothing
instead on alleged complicity he would have received from the International Cycling Union (UCI) notamment.
"There has never been a positive control (on the Tour de Suisse 2001). UCI is not covered," he assuré.
Nor is there
on Dr. Michele Ferrari, thinking head of anti-doping program and the U.S. Postal Discovery Channel. "A good guy," according Armstrong.
Emma O'Reilly, a careful who testified against him, was not entitled to the same consideration during an interview in which Armstrong has never tremblé.
O'Reilly was "reversed" in passing, hauled justice.
"To be honest Oprah was brought to justice so many people ... I'm not sure that this is the case (for O'Reilly)," he dared to smile support .
Ironic or not, Armstrong said at the time he did not feel tricher.
"I looked at the definition of cheating in the dictionary," he argued, seriously this time, concluding that this definition does not apply to lui.
Since everyone did. Christophe Bassoons, forced out of Tour 1999 for some doubts on the performance of Armstrong, appréciera.
Cynic until the end, Armstrong even killed the cancer card to justifier.
"After having overcome cancer, I developed the mentality of winning at all costs," he expliqué.
He himself says, however: "I'm not the most credible guy in the world" .
cancer, his children, in particular, are expected to dominate the second part of Lance / Oprah show, Saturday from 02:00 GMT. As in the first part, Armstrong will try to be the director of his own déchéance.
Edited by Jean-Philippe Lefief
