The Armstrong Lie

[Brian in Mesa]

The Armstrong Lie

Release Date: November 8, 2013 (NY, LA)
Studio: Sony Pictures Classics
Director: Alex Gibney
Screenwriter: N/A
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: R (for language)
Website: N/A

Starring: Lance Armstrong

Plot Summary: The film, produced by Gibney, Frank Marshall and Matt Tolmach, tells the unfolding story of Armstrong's life and career over the last four years.

Lance Armstrong was considered one of the greatest sports figures of all time and put competitive cycling into the global spotlight, by beating cancer and winning the Tour de France seven times. That success earned him an immense fortune and worldwide fame. His was also one of the most influential and inspiring sports stories of recent memory and became a pop culture phenomenon, thanks to his Livestrong initiative. Beginning in 2009, Academy Award winning documentarian Alex Gibney followed Armstrong for four years chronicling his return to cycling after retirement, as he tried to win his eighth title. Unexpectedly, Gibney was also there in 2012 when Armstrong admitted to doping, following a federal criminal investigation, public accusations of doping by his ex-teammates, and an investigation by the US Anti-Doping Agency, that led USADA's CEO, Travis Tygart, to conclude that Armstrong's team had run "the most sophisticated, professionalized and successful doping program that sport has ever seen."

What began as the chronicle of a comeback became an examination into the anatomy of a lie. This film offers unparalleled access to Armstrong's former teammates, doctors, and professionals, many of whom have never before spoken to the media about Armstrong and his bombshell doping admission – as well as unprecedented access to Armstrong himself.

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[NJCardFan]

IMO this was a witch hunt against an American athlete. To go back and void out all of his Tour wins is idiotic. At what point do they go back and void out all of the medals from those Eastern bloc countries who made steroid use and doping an artform?

 

[Russ Smith]

IMO this was a witch hunt against an American athlete. To go back and void out all of his Tour wins is idiotic. At what point do they go back and void out all of the medals from those Eastern bloc countries who made steroid use and doping an artform?

They've actually done quite a bit of that with the Olympics once the wall fell and they got access to lots of records that proved athletes were doping.

The bottom line is Armstrong cheated at a level they hadn't seen before, and he sued the pants off anybody that dared to tell the truth. He pissed off a lot of people, he had a very negative impact on the sport as people cheated to try and keep up with him. He cost people jobs, he cost people careers, and I still don't get why anybody has any sympathy for him.

And he still hasn't totally come clean, even now he's offering to help clean up the sport and yet refusing to do it on the terms that WADA and USADA want him to, which includes him fully detailing how exactly he got away with it for so long. In other words he's offering to help them catch others but doesn't want to tell them how he avoided detection himself because it will make him look even worse.

 

[Brian in Mesa]

They've actually done quite a bit of that with the Olympics once the wall fell and they got access to lots of records that proved athletes were doping.

The bottom line is Armstrong cheated at a level they hadn't seen before, and he sued the pants off anybody that dared to tell the truth. He pissed off a lot of people, he had a very negative impact on the sport as people cheated to try and keep up with him. He cost people jobs, he cost people careers, and I still don't get why anybody has any sympathy for him.

And he still hasn't totally come clean, even now he's offering to help clean up the sport and yet refusing to do it on the terms that WADA and USADA want him to, which includes him fully detailing how exactly he got away with it for so long. In other words he's offering to help them catch others but doesn't want to tell them how he avoided detection himself because it will make him look even worse.

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