Lance Armstrong told Stephen Dubner during a Freakonomics podcast that he is working to earn forgiveness from the public after denying doping for years until a scandal brought his actions to light.
Armstrong told a story about being in Denver in 2017 when a person at a bar patio began to yell at him, saying “F*** you! F*** you!”
“He wouldn’t stop,” Armstrong said in the podcast. “And the next thing you know, the entire patio is screaming ‘F*** you, f*** you, f***.’ I’ve never had that happen. I was like, ‘oh.’ I was shaking.”
Armstrong told Dubner that 10 years ago, he probably would have “jumped across the railing and started throwing punches.” But instead, he gave the manager his credit card number to pay for the patrons’ food and drinks.
“Tell them that I understand,” Armstrong told the manager, he said.
Armstrong paid the price for his doping and deception, losing about $100 million in sponsorships and lawsuits against him for misrepresenting himself. He was even kicked out of his own cancer foundation, the podcast transcript said.
He now hosts several podcasts, a commentary on the Tour de France, and an interview show called “The Forward.”
“Many of the guests that I’ve had on have had these moments in their lives, where they’ve had to establish some sort of a bottom, a low point in their life, and then decide for their own sake and their family’s sake and everybody’s sake that they’re going to move forward,” Armstrong said on the podcast.
Armstrong now lives in Austin, Texas, and Aspen, Colorado.
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