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Decoding The Unknown

How Did Lance Armstrong Get Away with Cheating for So Long?

Decoding The Unknown

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4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2026

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Seven Tour wins. A cancer miracle. A global icon. Then one word—“Yes.” The rise, lies, and fallout of Lance Armstrong’s empire, and the scandal that shattered sport forever. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:59.2

Hello, everybody. Welcome back to another episode of Decoding the Unknown. Today, we're

1:03.3

getting to code Lance Armstrong's blood. I don't know what it's going to be full of. Wasn't he doing

1:07.9

like, I mean, I feel like he was doing everything.

1:16.4

But wasn't he like getting extra oxygen in his blood or something somehow by like taking it out of his body and then putting in a van? Am I just imagining that? Anyway, we're going to find out because today

1:21.2

all about Lance Armstrong. Let us jump in the format of the show if you knew her. I've never read

1:25.5

this before. We're going to read it together. Let's jump in the format of the show if you knew her. I've never read this before we're going to read it together. Let's jump in.

1:45.1

On one side of the table, sat Oprah Winfrey, the architect of the televised confession on the other was a man who claimed that pain, cancer, and cynics could all be defeated by just believing hard enough.

1:50.4

How that worked out for you, Lance? For more than a decade, Lance Armstrong has stared down reporters, rivals, and former friends, anyone who dared suggest his seven Tour de France titles

1:55.5

were chemically assisted. Oh, wait, we're back in time. We're back in the moment when he was like,

2:00.5

no, no, no, I never

2:01.1

did anything wrong. He got all of them stripped away, right? He sued newspapers he called

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