The (EP) O Effect: Oprah to interview Lance Armstrong next Thursday

Written about this in skippyblogging.blogspot , and included as couple of thedse comments !

Thought at one time the guy was about to have his toes curl up with his second go round of cancer !

Cancer will get him before he confesses unreservably !

I feel a musical coming on...
Lance! the oprah.

If Lance does own up (and given his past history that's a very big if) - I'd hope that the Police arrest him on suspicion of perjury there and then.

However, I've seen too many people verifiably lie in court to expect that to happen.

One thing that worries me is how Lance is being made a scapegoat for what was (and possibly still is) a widespread problem. I can't decide which is worse, that so many cyclists cheated or that the UCI didn't catch them.

I wonder if the interview will be on that long couch in the room with the 7 yellow jerseys hanging on the wall. I wouldn't be surprised.

You guys are all dicks... I bet if you were in his shoes you'd do the same thing. If I was on the brink of death and survived and had a chance to come back and start over, I'd do the same thing. I'd be all in, no half assing, you're either with me or against me, cause life is too short to f*** around.

Having looked at the drivel spouted on the Oprah website, it is so good to read all these cynical comments from 'haters' and 'trolls'. Please keep it up guys, because we need to repeat again and again... 'He isn't the messiah, he's a very naughty boy.' Monty Python, Life of Brian, quoted by David Walsh.

Can't be arsed to watch him spouting his lies. It will be all over the BBC news the following day anyway.

Now, if Dame Edna had been doing the interview that would have been different

Just seen that BBC clarify that no money exchanged hands for the interview.

A simple statement on his website or twitter account would suffice. But no it has to be a global event. I just wish he's go away - I don't want him to be rehabilitated.

Some serious coinage on the back of a TV interview - no doubt Oprah paid top dollar, but I bet - and you can add this into your drinking game - it's publically stated that the fee goes to Livestrong. Let the rehabilitation begin.

If he'd gone away in 2005 I honestly think he would be where he is now.
The man simply 'wouldn't let it lie'.

I think I did a little sick in my mouth, pass the bucket there's more

I for one can't wait to see the interview and yes I'm sure it will be cringe worthy and they'll be tears and we will all stare at the TV and mouth 'what a c**t'.
But the fact is this is showbiz.
If fans of the sport want to turn cyclists like Wiggins into a hero, with a gold throne and a knighthood (still miffed he accepted the bloody thing) then we need a baddie.
I'm thinking Armstrong as Lord Voldemort and Sir Wiggins as Harry Potter.
Oh and hats off to anyone who doesn't watch the interview, your a better person than me.

The guys at RedKitePrayer.com had a good analysis of this nonsense. Anything Lance does is completely self serving because his cashflow has come to an abrupt halt. He doesn't travel on Livestrong's dime any more. He doesn't get paid to all of the things he normally does. Padrag even floated the idea that it's politically motivated so he can run for office in Texas.

Go away Lance!

"Armstrong will address the alleged doping scandal".
Where do I begin...?

My feeling is that Oprah will bottle anything meaningful and it'll be an open forum for him to tell 'Lance's version'. Which will no doubt cut out anything to do with reality and pretty much be the greatest story ever told....poor cancer victim competes in dirty race and in order to compete he has to sell his poor soul to the drug toting devil and how hard it's been for him to be paid millions of pounds for repeatedly telling the same lie.

He'll have had so many conditions as to what Oprah can and can't ask before being interviewed that it's going to be like Jon Inman interviewing Vlad the Impaler.

He won't confess to anything at all. I predict that the phrase "maybe I've made some mistakes" will be used, perhaps "I'm not an angel", and similar.

Then they'll talk about all his charity work, how many people he's inspired to take up cycling, and a million people who care about the sport will combust.

@Deswahriff
I doubt it - he's never going to confess to being a bad person - maybe, just maybe, to doing 'what everyone else was doing'...

He's not going to admit to anything on Oprah, surely. Not unless he's surrounded by hundreds of lawyers. As soon as he confesses, he's potentially going down.

I'm seriously concerned that if I watch it I'll end up punching my laptop screen. I mean it.

...will he confess to bullying, intimidation and threatening women, though? He can't blame that on "everyone else doing it"...

Difficult not to think this will be a highly manipulative interview by Armstrong portraying himself as a victim and martyr, only doing what others were doing (as the Lance-apologist photographer Graham Watson was saying in his blog a few days ago, which apparently met with Armstrong's approval).

Being interviewed at home in Texas will also give Armstrong an opportunity to create just the right surroundings to say what he wants to say to an American audience which I suspect will be a lot more sympathetic to his case than people over here.

No-one has said how much Armstrong is being paid by Oprah Winfrey for providing this exclusive interview. I assume it will be a large amount, which will no doubt help him with his legal fees!

I'll watch it if he jumps up and down on the sofa like Tom Cruise, just to prove how batshit crazy he actually is.

I dont think he'll be fooling anyone (except all the septics who love an Oprah sofa confessional and want to believe him).

Unless he names names and does it to clear his conscience rather than because he wants to get back to competing in triathlons, I have little interest.

I think MercuryOne has hit it pretty much on the head as far as the format and content of the 'interview' will follow ;), hands up if you think the interview will be conducted in his rec room surrounded by 'his' yellow jerseys....

I will not be giving up my precious sleep time to hear more excuses and delusional thinking.