Disgraced bicycle owner Lance Armstrong believes he’ll at some point be handed again his seven Tour de France jerseys.
The 53-year-old admitted he nonetheless retains all seven yellow jerseys – awarded for successful the gruelling bike race – hung up in his workplace and bluntly informed any rivals ‘come and declare them’.
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Armstrong had the final word comeback story, recovering from testicular most cancers to win the Tour de France yearly between 1998 and 2005.
He retired from biking in 2005 however got here again in 2009 the place he went on to race for 3 extra years.
Nonetheless, doping allegations dogged him ever since his 1999 Tour win. Ultimately whistleblowers and investigations discovered he was the ringleader within the ‘most subtle medication dishonest programme in sports activities historical past’.
Armstrong was ultimately stripped of these seven titles and confessed throughout a now notorious Oprah Winfrey interview.
Not too long ago, he joined Steve-O on his Wild Experience! Podcast and stated he believes historical past will proceed to edit his story.
When requested if he had by no means come again in 2009 then his doping would by no means have come out, he stated: “Historical past just isn’t silly, historical past all the time tells the reality. All you need to do is wait. For me to sit down right here and say ‘if I’d have by no means come again…’
“I feel historical past catches up with all people. That, within the quick time period for me, was troublesome. Historical past edited my story as this performed out.
“The model that it was edited to on the time was that he did not win any excursions. I used to be stripped of all seven. It says these years that there isn’t any winner.
“Right here you have got an occasion just like the tour that’s stunning and iconic and historic – it has to have a winner.
“Historical past doesn’t cease and it doesn’t cease enhancing. It should proceed to be edited and ultimately the reality will probably be informed.
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“What actually issues is that I don’t give a s*** what the historical past books say now and don’t give a s*** what was written.
“What I care about is the individuals who have been within the trenches – my teammates and the individuals who received beat, the folks I needed to beat, and the folks I refused to hug.
“In case you ask them what occurred, they are going to inform you what occurred. They may inform you who received these races. That’s so true and so particular, that historical past will appropriate that story.
“I is perhaps lengthy gone and useless, however historical past by no means stops enhancing.”
Armstrong went on to confess that each one seven of these jerseys nonetheless cling in his workplace and his refuses to take them down.
He informed Steve-O: “You didn’t park in my workplace, however should you did and walked inside then you will note seven yellow jerseys hanging on the wall. Nobody has come to assert them.
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“I toed the road with 200 different guys for seven years and never a kind of dudes has rolled as much as my workplace and stated ‘give me that jersey’.
“In the event that they needed to indicate as much as my workplace and make a declare for one, they’ll have it.”