I actually feel bad for the guy:
The BBC wrote:Asked if doping was part of the process required to win the Tour, he said: "That's like saying we have to have air in our tyres or water in our bottles. It was part of the job.
"I don't want to make any excuses, but that was my view and I made those decisions."
In a key exchange Winfrey asked: "Did it feel wrong?
Armstrong replied: "No. Scary."
"Did you feel bad?"
"No. Even scarier."
"Did you feel that you were cheating?"
"No. The scariest."
Armstrong continued: "The definition of a cheat is to gain an advantage on a rival or foe. I didn't view it that way. I viewed it as a level playing field. I didn't understand the magnitude of that. The important thing is that I'm beginning to understand it.
He's got to pretend for the hand wringing world as though his views on the matter has changed. On top of that he's lumped with all these sad individuals who apparently he "let down." People literally in tears at the news that a man they've never met doped. He's then got to pretend he gives a crap about these maladjusted individuals.
Armstrong said he had not been afraid of getting caught. "Testing has evolved. Back then they didn't come to your house and there was no testing out of competition and for most of my career there wasn't that much out-of-competition testing so you're not going to get caught because you clean up for the races.
"I didn't fail a test. Retrospectively, I failed one. The hundreds of tests I took I passed them."
Hardly any out of competition testing, hint hint.
I almost felt bad for the poor sods who didn't manage to clean up in time for the Olympics and were told to stay at home. The Albanian weightlifter has literally given up the sport. It must be pretty brutal being disgraced like that in front of everyone when you know everyone else is doing it.