Lance Armstrong is still lying.

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Lance and Oprah

Watch his body language in this interview. A few tell tale signs he's holding something back. He keeps putting his hand on his mouth and chin...as though he's trying to "hold the lie" back. He's almost trying to "scoop" the words he said back into his mouth.

He sits with his legs crossed, as though he's trying to appear relaxed...yet he keeps his hands in his lap all the time, trying to keep his body small. It's not natural, and something you tend to do when you have something to hide.

Sometimes he actually looks proud of what he's done. The smirks, the non-verbal communication all show he's not really sorry. He also talks in the third person a lot. Not a lot of "I" or "me" statements.

The first part of Oprah Winfrey's interview with Lance Armstrong aired last night. Oprah started with a series of yes-or-no questions, beginning with the big one:

    Winfrey: "Did you ever take banned substances to enhance your cycling performance?"
    Armstrong: "Yes."

She followed up with specifics. Did he use the blood-boosting drug EPO? Yes. Did he use blood doping and blood transfusions? Yes. Did he use substances such as testosterone, cortisone, and human growth hormone? Yes. Did he cheat in all seven Tour de France wins? Yes.

Other highlights:

    "I didn't invent the culture, and I didn't try to stop the culture."
    "I viewed this situation as one big lie that I repeated a lot of times."

He insisted that he raced in 2009 (the year of his comeback) and in 2010 without using any kind of performance-enhancing drugs.

He insisted that he never forced teammates to dope.

But was he a bully? "Yeah, I was a bully," he said. "I tried to control the narrative."

He specifically apologized to former team masseuse Emma O'Reilly; after she alleged that he doped years ago, he attacked her personally and sued her.

Lance said, "I will spend the rest of my life trying to earn back trust and apologize to people."

So why did he cheat?

    "That is the best question. It's the most logical question. ... I don't know that I have a great answer. I will start my answer by saying that this is too late. It's too late for probably most people, and that's my fault."

Later, he said it didn't feel like cheating while he was doing it because lots of other riders were doping, too. It was a "level playing field," he said.

Did he feel happiness in winning? He avoided this interesting question, saying there was more happiness "in the process."

Part two airs tonight on OWN.

Does he seem like a man that is truly sorry?

I got info from espn.com

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