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January 19, 2013 07:49 am GMT

Armstrong Says Infamous Yellow Jersey Tweet Was a Mistake


In Part 2 of Oprah Winfrey's exclusive interview with Lance Armstrong, the disgraced athlete said a defiant tweet he posted last fall was a "mistake."

After the USADA stripped the seven-time Tour de France winner of all his titles and banned him from sports for life over charges of taking banned performance-enhancing drugs and blood doping, Armstrong tweeted to his followers a phot of him lying on the couch in his basement, surrounded by the framed yellow jerseys from his seven wins (shown below).

Winfrey asked him if that was the "cocky, arrogant jerk self" that Armstrong described in Part 1 of the interview. Armstrong, wincing at the question, said the tweet was "more defiance" and "…
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