Couple of new trailers for Lance Armstrong film “The Armstrong Lie”; release due Jan 31st

Oscar-winning Alex Gibney and his team got a lot of access to Armstrong (left); it will be interesting to see what they did with it.

You’ll find below a couple of short trailers for the new movie on Lance Armstrong; “The Armstrong Lie”.

The clips have both been released by Sony Pictures today, Tuesday, as the January 31^st UK-Ireland release date for the film draws closer.

It has been made by film maker Alex Gibney, who has won Oscars for his work.

In 2009 when Armstrong came back to the sport to ride the Tour de France, Gibney decided to film the comeback; with access to the American.

However, while he knew of the doping allegations flying around about Armstrong and indeed put them to him on film several times during 2009, not even Gibney could predict the storm that was to follow, which resulted in perhaps the biggest fall from grace in sporting history.

The Armstrong Lie contains some great footage of Armstrong constantly denying the doping allegations, and even trying to slap down Paul Kimmage’s questions about doping at a press conference in the US.

The American told the Irish former pro turned journalist that he wasn’t worth the chair he was sitting on; absolutely golden footage considering what we know now, and many suspected all along.

All through filming in 2009, Armstrong continued to live the doping lie.

“He had lied to me, straight to my face,” Gibney says.

“When the truth came out, I told him he owed me an explanation.”

That explanation came in the form of an extended interview to Gibney after USADA had done its work and the UCI had been forced on basis of that work to ban Armstrong and strip him of his seven Tour de France titles; among a large number of other results.