“I'm a flawed character… I viewed this situation as one big lie that I repeated a lot of times.”

—  Lance Armstrong

Lance Armstrong Admits to Doping, 'One Big Lie' http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323468604578248582288523660.html, as reported in the Wall Street Journal, January 18, 2013.

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