Lance Armstrong Said He Cheated With Drugs, Winfrey Says

Lance Armstrong said he cheated by using drugs during his cycling career, ending 13 years of denials and turning the seven-time Tour de France champion and cancer survivor from one of the world’s most revered athletes to as big a fraud as sports has ever seen.

Already stripped of his titles, barred from Olympic sports for life and abandoned by longtime sponsors such as Nike Inc., Oakley Inc. and Anheuser-Busch InBev NV, Armstrong publicly acknowledged doping for the first time yesterday in a 2 1/2-hour interview with Oprah Winfrey, the talk-show host said on “CBS This Morning.”