Lance Armstrong: "It was not legal but I would not change anything" | sport

Former cycling champion Lance Armstrong said he "would not change anything" about doping that deprived him of his record of seven Tour de France titles, according to the details of an interview that will be broadcast next week.

The NBCSN network, owned by NBC Sports Group, announced Thursday the broadcast of a 30-minute interview next Wednesday titled Lance Armstrong: Next Stage, in which the 47-year-old American discusses his career and the decisions that he took.

"We did what we had to do to win. It was not legal, but I would not change anything: either lose a lot of money, go from hero to zero, "said Armstrong, who defeated cancer to win the first of his seven titles on the Tour de France 20 years in an excerpt from the interview provided by NBC Sports.

Armstrong was stripped of his Tour de France titles and banned from sport for life in 2012 after the International Cycling Union ratified the sanctions imposed by the US Anti-Doping Agency.

The American later confessed to having cheated in a television interview with Oprah Winfrey in January 2013. Armstrong, who was once a hero for millions of people, suffered a dramatic fall that cost him millions of dollars in lawsuits. and endorsements.

"I would not change anything. I would not change my way of acting. I mean I would, but it's a longer answer, "he said. "In the first place, I would not change the lessons I learned. I do not learn all the lessons if I do not do that. I will not be investigated or sanctioned if I do not act as I did.

"If I doped and said nothing, none of that would have happened." None of that. I begged, I asked them to come after me. It was an easy target.