Lance Armstrong: 'It wasn't legal but I wouldn't change a thing'

A new 30-minute interview titled 'Lance Armstrong: Next Stage' is set to air on NBCSN next week

Lance Armstrong at the screening of Icarus (Photo by Mark Sagliocco/Getty Images)

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Lance Armstrong has said "it wasn't legal but I wouldn't change a thing" about his career, including the doping that saw the Texan stripped of his seven Tour de France titles.

Speaking in an interview set to air on American television next week, Armstrong says: "We did what we had to do to win. It wasn’t legal, but I wouldn’t change a thing: whether it’s losing a bunch of money, going from hero to zero."

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Hi. I'm Cycling Weekly's Weekend Editor. I like writing offbeat features and eating too much bread when working out on the road at bike races.


Before joining Cycling Weekly I worked at The Tab and I've also written for Vice, Time Out, and worked freelance for The Telegraph (I know, but I needed the money at the time so let me live).


I also worked for ITV Cycling between 2011-2018 on their Tour de France and Vuelta a España coverage. Sometimes I'd be helping the producers make the programme and other times I'd be getting the lunches. Just in case you were wondering - Phil Liggett and Paul Sherwen had the same ham sandwich every day, it was great.