Irish masseuse Emma O’Reilly rejects attempted apology from Lance Armstrong -VIDEO

Ban him for the media he is still manipulating the public perception

He is only sorry he got caught.

The interview is a shameless manipulation by LA to have an international audience change its perception of him as someone who although guilty of doping was, first, doing the same as everyone else in the peloton and second, being harshly treated. If he were truly sorry he would have admitted what he has to say in a less publicised forum. This is the state of his dysfunctional narcissism in that he wants to be the big shot on the big screen. There is so much missing from this interview. He does an injustice to all the cyclists who stay clean and compete hoping to win prestigious races - they are not all like him whiich he implied. He has cheated, lied and bullied in such a despicable manner he really did not deserve to be on such a programme trying to limit the damage to his pathetic character. I feel for David Walsh, Pierre Ballester, Paul KImmage, Greg LeMond, Christophe Bassons and others such as the Andreus - I have followed their accusations since the outset and read the books as a perpetual critic of this bombastic show-off. Thankfully, he is now in their sites as guilty and not making them appear as conspiracy maniacs while he fleeces them financially in court or out of court. I hope we never ever see him allowed to compete again anywhere. The enormity of what he has perpetrated and those with him who facilitated it merits a longstanding penalties - in fact, the ones he would hate most.

While I don't agree with anyone using derogatory terms about anyone else and don't agree with cheating, the cycling world was and probably still is rife with doping. The cycling organizations were well aware most of the cyclists who were winning races were doping and really looked the other way by minimizing the testing process to only testing the winners after the races. Many cyclists had to use doping to compete. The incredible publicity and financial gain the cycling organizations received influenced their decisions in regard to the doping tests. If they had really wanted integrity of the sport and not just a semblance of integrity, they would have required frequent testing and made it a requirement of being able to compete in any races. Scheduled and random testing at integral junctures is required and why not require annual lie detector tests for all participants including doctors, managers, trainers, racers etc. that would not only include questions about personal usage but also include knowledge of others use of doping. It is time the cycling world becomes gets away from the doping culture it is known for and becomes the poster boy for running a doping free sport. I think it is a big joke that the jealous people out there did not insist on all athletes being subjected to the same scrutiny as Lance Armstrong. It is more important to prevent the doping than to discover it afterwards. I blame the cycling world for this fiasco where so many cyclist were caught after the races instead of before. It is a travesty that the cycling community unofficially sanctioned the doping behaviour and cheated the honest cyclists out of appearing on the podium and receiving their medals and accolades.

Alicia: I totally agree, and the people that get hurt are the fans and the sport itself. What a dis-service he and the Cycling Association have done to throw the sport back. How can people consider the sport as credible anymore? What a shame and a disrespect for integrity these greedy self centered jerks have put on cycling.

what a pathetic human being...and a lowlife

.What he said about this woman isas low as it gets.I actually feel hatred towards him

His objectives include returning to sports, attempting to save the foundation some assets and keep his own 100 million. Maybe not in that order! I suspect it won't work.

The apology goes nowhere now. It is too late. He is a liar and a cheat BUT, this was not done on his own. An impossibility. The Cycling Association and the Laboratories were in on this and made a hell of a lot of money. So please Lance, dob the rest of them in and hopefully all those liars and cheats will be replaced.

What;s the male term for 'whore'? I now believe it's 'lancer'.

I don't know why these people can't admit to there mistakes, it would go a lot esier on them in the long run. Having said that I am so happy that they finally caught this fool, I knew after his second tour de France win that he was doping. You can't win that many races let alone 7 and not be on steriods, Come on people they should have known a lot earlier then they did. The tour is a very tough race.

Lance is the tip of the iceberg but they got him....The sad story is how distance runners are allowed to get away with their cheating. That sport doesn't want them to be caught whereas at least the Tour De France tried to run a clean sport...I'm tired of hype about the African runner... before they got epo they could not beat Frank Shorter, John Treacy or Eamon Coghlan.

What a sorry human being Lance (one nut) Armstrong turned out to be. After seeing him talk to Oprah, hopefully he will crawl under a rock and never be heard from again. What an utter disgrace.

It has become clear to me that Lance no longer has sociopathic tendencies. He is textbook. For anyone who disagrees or cannot see the examples that are even laid out in his so-called apology to Oprah. Look up the meaning and then try and deny to yourself that he operates in a sociopaths textbook format, item for item, Line for line.