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Author, journalist and former pro rider, Paul Kimmage has hinted that disgraced Lance Armstrong may come clean about his drug-fuelled rise to the top of the sport.
Armstrong won the Tour de France seven times in-a-row between 1999 and 2005 but was later found guilty by the US Anti-Doping Agency of being a key member in what it described as the “most sophisticated, professionalised and successful doping programme that sport has ever seen”.
Speaking in Limerick at the ‘Cycle 4 Sick Children’ charity fundraiser over the weekend, Kimmage said he believed a confession from the Texan may be nigh.
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“It’s really the only avenue he has left now in terms of trying to get back some of the support he had before,” said the Dubliner.
“I think if he confessed and explained how the people in power facilitated his cheating, he would gain a good measure of sympathy for that but that opens him up to all kinds of litigation from sponsors and from the insurers.”
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“I did hear he is thinking about it and possibly started another book, which I imagine will be called, ‘It is about the bike’... So I have heard he’s doing that but obviously he’s got to sort out all the litigation stuff.”
Kimmage was in London on Sunday for the ‘Change Cycling Now’ conference where several of the most outspoken critics of drugs in the sport gathered to thrash out ideas as to how cycling can go about restoring its reputation.
One of the most positive steps taken yesterday was the news of former Tour de France winner Greg LeMond running for the UCI presidency after being asked to do so by the protest group.
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