Oprah Winfrey is best known for her multi-award winning talk show ‘The Oprah Winfrey show' The show was once the highest rated program and was nationally broadcasted from 1986 to 2011. According to some assessments, she is also, the most influential woman in the world. In 2013, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama and honorary doctorate degrees from Duke and Harvard.On 18th January, 2013, Oprah Winfrey interviewed the famous cyclist Lance Armstrong, who won seven consecutive Tour de France titles, inspiring others with his cancer survival. In 2012, the U.S Anti-Doping Agency stripped Armstrong of all his honours he had achieved till 2005, and also, banned him from cycling for life, saying that Armstrong had used banned performance-enhancing substances during those years. The cyclist strongly denied the claims for number of months thereafter, but in January 2013, in ‘The Oprah Winfrey Show’ he admitted to doping throughout his cycling career.In this interview, Lance Armstrong admitted that the all seven of his Tour de France titles, were won after doping and that it would have been impossible for anybody to win all the Tour de France titles without such thing. He also admitted that his storied career at the top of competitive cycling was fuelled by drugs, lies and bullying.
Winfrey, who discussed the interview on CBS said, "We were mesmerized and riveted by some of his answers. I feel that he answered the questions in a way that he was ready. … He certainly had prepared himself for this moment. … He brought it. He really did."
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