Armstrong admits doping

Lance Armstrong admitted that he used performance enhancing drugs during his cycling career. As expected, he confessed to cheating in the first part of a televised interview with Oprah Winfrey that was recorded three days earlier at his hometown of Austin, Texas.

"Yes," he replied when asked directly whether he used performance enhancing drugs. He also said "yes" to a series of questions about whether he used specific drugs, including erythropoietin and blood doping.

Armstrong says there are "five guys" who were riding clean during his cycling days. They are "heroes." Nice guys do finish last, apparently. "I'm not the most believable guy in the world right now, I understand."

"This is too late, probably for most people, and that's my fault. I view this situation as one big lie that I repeated a lot of times. "It's not as if I said no and moved off it. While I've lived through this process, I know the truth. The truth isn't what I said and now it's gone."