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Lance Armstrong began doping probably at age 21
Updated On: 20 May, 2020 08:31 AM IST | Paris | AFP
That's the age when former Tour de France-winning American cyclist Lance Armstrong began doping, according to him in an upcoming documentary
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Former US cyclist Lance Armstrong. Pic/AFP
Disgraced former American cyclist Lance Armstrong has revealed he first started doping from the age of 21, during his first season as a professional. "Wow, straight to the point, probably 21," Armstrong replied when asked how old he was when he first doped as part of an ESPN documentary. The exchange with US journalist Marina Zenovich appeared in a 90-second trailer released on Monday for a two-part documentary called, Lance which will be broadcast by ESPN on May 24 and 31.
During the clip, in which former US Postal Service teammates Tyler Hamilton and George Hincapie respond to the same question about performance-enhancing drugs, Armstrong, now 48, explains there are "a bunch of ways to define doping". "The easiest way to define it is breaking the rules. Were we getting injections of vitamins and other things like that at an earlier age? Yes, but they weren't illegal.
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