Lance Armstrong admits to first doping 'probably at 21'

Disgraced former American cyclist Lance Armstrong has revealed he first started doping from of 21, during his first season as a professional. "Wow, straight to point, probably 21," Armstrong replied when asked how old he was when he first doped as part of an ESPN documentary. exchange with US journalist Marina Zevich appeared in a 90-second trailer released on Monday for a two-part documentary called "Lance" which will be broadcast by ESPN on May 24 and 31.

Lance Armstrong admits to first doping 'probably at 21'

During clip, in which former US Postal Service team-mates Tyler Hamilton and George Hincapie respond to same question about performance-enhancing drugs, Armstrong, w 48, explains re are "a bunch of ways to define doping".

" easiest way to define it is breaking rules. Were we getting injections of vitamins and or things like that at an earlier ? Yes, but y weren't illegal. I always asked (what I was being given). I always knew, and I always made decision on my own," he said.

"body said, 'Don't ask, this is what you're getting.' I never, ever would have gone for that. I educated myself on what was being given, and I chose to do it." Armstrong dominated professional cycling in 2000s and won Tour de France seven years in a row from 1999 to 2005.

He was later stripped of those titles and received a lifetime ban from sport in 2012 after US Anti-Doping ncy determined he was key figure in a sophisticated doping programme on US Postal Service team. In 2013, he confessed to doping starting in 1996 in a televised interview with US chat-show host Oprah Winfrey. His latest admission could also cast doubt over his world road race title won in Oslo in 1993, having turned professional previous season. 

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