I do not take steroids. I never have. It’s sad to me that people want to point fingers. I don’t do that. That’s not me. I wouldn’t feel like a human being. Jackie Joyner-Kersee
Are we to say that any individual who’s on steroids that has an angry moment is due to steroids? What about the individual who gets angry and kills someone who’s not on steroids? What do we blame it on now? Jose Canseco
Sports is once again hitting the headlines for all the wrong reasons. I’ve been investigating the controversial and dangerous world of sports doping. Horizon: Sports Doping – Winning at Any Cost, BBC 2016
Hundreds of thousands of people in the UK are using steroids. ibid.
Steroids are addictive in 30% of users. ibid.
Caffeine improves performance in a range of sports by up to 3%. ibid.
‘I lost the five Olympics medals … The most devastating loss: the loss of my freedom.’ Marion Jones: Press Pause, opening scene, ESPN 2010
‘I betrayed your trust.’ ibid. courthouse confession
She was a global superstar. ibid.
It was the denials, the multiple public denials … ibid.
Olympic Stadium Seoul South Korea 24th September 1988: ‘What a race; this is the race of this century.’ 9.79, Da Silver in lane one, ESPN 2012
The world record is gone again. ibid. David Coleman
He [Johnson] just didn’t have the core talent. ibid. Lewis
It was a dilemma that every runner in the Seoul race would have to confront at some point in their career. ibid. tester
Some of our results were lost. Some number of cases never saw the light of day. ibid.
Not only had results gone missing, but there was now a new substance on the scene that was not detectable at all to the testers. ibid. commentary
1984: The Growth Hormone Games. ibid.
The main supplier in North America was Robert Kerr, a doctor based in Los Angeles. ibid.
Avoiding a positive required nothing more than looking at a calendar. ibid.
Lewis had tested positive at the US Olympic trials for three illegal stimulants. ibid.
Unbelievable! 9.79! ibid. race commentary
No-one can take it away from me. ibid. Ben’s after-race interview
I said, Well they finally got me. ibid. Ben
The biggest drugs story in Olympics history. ibid. News
Champion or cheat? Legend or liar? Miracle man or a master of deceit? This is the story you don’t know. The drugs. The Deception. And the damage done. Cycling’s Greatest Fraud, National Geographic 2013
1999 the US Pro Cycling team … Lance Armstrong was the team’s rising star and leader. ibid.
Armstrong urges them to start doping … the best team possible. ibid.
EPO: A thermos full of EPO … One of his drugs tests come back positive for Cortisone. ibid.
‘To Americans, Lance Armstrong is cycling superman.’ Storyville: The Lance Armstrong Story: Stop at Nothing aka The Armstrong Lie, commentary, BBC 2014
Many ex-teammates testified against Lance Armstrong. ibid.
It might never have happened if he hadn’t decided to take a victory lap in 2009. The comeback: what was he thinking? ibid.
‘The Armstrong Lie’ article offered proof that Armstrong’s first Tour win had not been clean. ibid.
Pro cycling continued to suffer through doping scandals. ibid.
‘The man, Lance Armstrong from Texas, now has destroyed the field.’ ibid. UK race commentary, Col d’Aubisque
Even in 1999 Lance came close to getting caught when steroids showed up in a urine test. ibid.
He [Michele Ferrari] had sources inside anti-doping labs who kept him updated on the latest tests: Ferrari’s whole programme was cloaked in secrecy. ibid.
The star witness was an Italian cyclist, Filippo Simeoni. In 2004 the Italian court convicted Dr Ferrari of sporting fraud forcing Armstrong to publicly end their relationship. However, Ferrari’s conviction would be overturned two years later. ibid.
‘At the time I didn’t lose sleep over it.’ ibid. Armstrong
‘Our cancer has returned.’ ibid. journalist
The undertow of Floyd’s [Landis] resentment would in the end lead to the downfall of Lance Armstrong. ibid.
‘He tried to wreck their lives.’ ibid. colleague
2010: Armstrong’s comeback brought all of his enemies out of the woodwork. ibid. under testimony
He is a person who gets into people’s heads. And he knows that. He likes that. It’s just the core of his identity that he’s able to do that. Storyville: Lance, Bonnie Ford, BBC 2021
Since admitting in 2013 that he used performance enhancing drugs, Lance Armstrong has been fighting multiple lawsuits. The final lawsuit alleged that Armstrong defrauded the US Postal Service by accepting sponsorship money while doping. ibid. captions
I educated myself on what was being given and I chose to do it. ibid. Lance
Teen triathlete able to compete with the top pros. ibid. newspaper article
I enjoyed the escape of being on a bike … I can get in a faraway place. ibid. Lance
Lance Armstrong, 21 years of age, is America’s second only world ever road-race champion. ibid. race commentary
Tour de France: This circus at the boundary of human performance. ibid. Peter Flax
It was just ingrained in the culture of the sport. ibid.
Every headline starts with the word ‘disgraced’. Or some version of that word ‘disgraced’. Storyville: Lance II
The balance of power was really established in that first 2000 Tour and it never really changed, and in fact as time went by Armstrong’s superiority complex increased and Ulrich’s inferiority complex decreased. ibid. Daniel Friebe
Hey, it could be worse. I could by Floyd Landis. Waking up a piece of shit every day. ibid. Lance
When Lance won the prologue to the 1999 Tour, I was close to tears. When I heard he was working with Michele Ferrari, I was devastated. If Lance is clean, it is the greatest comeback in the history of sport. If he isn’t, it would be the greatest fraud. ibid. Greg LeMond
LeMond-Armstrong dispute heads to court: The long-standing allegations of drug use that have sullied the world of professional bicycle racing have led to a public falling out between Tour de France winner Greg LeMond and Trek Bicycle Corp, over seven-time tour winner Lance Armstrong. ibid. Minneapolis Star Tribune article David Phelps
What is the worst thing? … Probably the way I treated and spoke about Emma O’Reilly. [former soigneur, US postal service] ibid.
Mr Armstrong, tested positive for EPO and made a financial agreement with Mr Verbruggen to keep the positive test hidden … During the Tour de France the entire team did transfusions. ibid. Floyd Landis
Then the Lance doping scandal erupted, and I had to put the film aside ... Why did he come back? The Armstrong Lie, Channel 4 2014
‘It’s very hard to conceal the truth for ever.’ ibid.
The comeback was not a new beginning but the beginning of the end. ibid.
Armstrong’s comeback brought all of his enemies out of the woodwork. ibid.
[They] were willing to be fooled ... loved the beautiful lie more than the ugly truth. ibid.
In 2003 the US Department of Justice joined Floyd Landis in suing Lance Armstrong for defrauding the US Postal Service. Armstrong faces damages of over $100 million. ibid.
‘I don’t care what we have to do; I wanna win.’ The Dark Side, athlete, Tim Montgomery, Al Jazeera 2015
A box of drugs banned in sport – we’ve just bought them from medical professionals who say they work with top level athletes. ibid.
We infiltrate a network who claim their scientific expertise can cheat the system. ibid.
What athletes call the Dark Side – the secret world of doping. ibid.
‘The NFL is the US – that’s kind of a market we’re going after.’ ibid. doping doctor