Lance Armstong Heated Interview

During the press conference Armstrong sat flanked by two of his closest friends in the peloton — Hincapie, his longtime teammate at Motorola, U.S. Postal Service and Discovery Channel and Leipheimer, his current Astana teammate.

Armstrong was questioned on a variety of topics, including his decision to return to racing and his terminated independent anti-doping program with Don Catlin.

However the line of questioning — and answering — became most tense when Irish journalist Paul Kimmage, who called Armstrong the cancer of the peloton in a radio interview last year, asked Armstrong how he could compare the return to racing of suspended rider Scot David Millar to those of Floyd Landis and Ivan Basso.

There is one obvious difference between them, said Kimmage. (Landis and Basso) admitted to nothing.

Armstrong first replied by saying that he found Kimmages comments insulting, not only to himself, but to the entire cancer community.

-VeloNews

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[Tsumaji]

What a fucking badass.

[Z3koD3vo]

Lance didnt even cuss or anything like most other people would, and he kept his cool through it all. He owned him with his own persona and his own words. Amazing.

[footlockerjl32]

cool and calm as it gets

[spankula123]

@GarrettLeeM He won't deny doping. Simple as that.

[GarrettLeeM]

@spankula123 Yeah? A guy who was a pro athlete at the age of 15? And on the olympic cycling team out of high school? And at one point the most drug tested athlete on the face of the earth? A doper?

Im sure you didn't catch his whole Nike commercial about doping. Or the fact that if he had tested positive, the world would know about it STAT. He doesn't have to deny it, he's innocent until proven guilty.

[TPM75108]

Lance gave him what he deserved!

[LuckynumberSlevin11]

@PaceAmoreGioia Zero insensitivity in Kimmage's response.

[LuckynumberSlevin11]

doper

[spankula123]

He wants to admit using dope badly. I still can't find where he flatly denies ever doping.

[SolidSnake032486]

@canublink Are you sure you have any?

[SnoBlackMelbkour]

@Kite123 Good detective work, Watson. And Watson! Tell your mother I love her.

[fastmover564]

haha I want to see that interviewers face after Lance's statement :D