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Armstrong admits doping to Oprah

Shamed former Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong admitted taking several banned performance enhancing substances, in a television interview broadcast Thursday.

US cyclist Lance Armstrong speaks at the begining of the annual Team Livestrong Challenge in Austin, Texas on October 21, 2012. Armstrong admitted taking several banned performance enhancing substances, in a television interview broadcast Thursday.

Armstrong told US talk show host Oprah Winfrey that he had used blood transfusions and taken EPO, testosterone, cortisone, human growth hormone in all seven of his Tour victories starting in the 1990s.

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