Lance Armstrong

“when you're an agent for the Food and Drug Administration, I don't know how, I mean, all of these things have missions. He was, you know, he was an agent for t…”

Armstrong states that Jeff Novitzky was an IRS agent during the BALCO/Barry Bonds investigation and questions why doping in cycling was an FDA issue, implying the agency roles were reversed from what actually happened.

“we had a good run and 85 million bracelets yeah but look i mean i don't want anybody to be mistaken my interests were selfish”

Armstrong states that roughly 85 million Livestrong yellow bracelets were sold/distributed.

“I mean, you look at Trek Bicycles, for example. I mean, before the first tour, I think we did $125 million in sales. We do a billion now.”

Armstrong claims Trek Bicycle Corporation's annual sales went from about $125 million before his first Tour de France win to about a billion dollars by 2015, implying his sponsorship drove that growth.

“the Postal Service commissioned three separate studies to analyze the effect of the sponsorship on the team. We believe they made hundreds of millions of dolla…”

Armstrong claims the U.S. Postal Service commissioned three separate studies on the marketing value of its cycling team sponsorship and that those studies show the Postal Service made hundreds of millions of dollars in benefit from it.

“we've sort of finished that first phase of litigation and that it'll go to trial maybe a year from now in washington dc”

Armstrong predicts the federal U.S. Postal Service fraud lawsuit against him will go to trial roughly a year from this December 2015 podcast, in Washington D.C.

“Those seven years were, the green jersey was won by Zabel, who admitted to having doped all seven of those years. The polka dot jersey was won by Varenque from…”

Armstrong states that Erik Zabel (green jersey) and Richard Virenque (polka dot jersey) each admitted to doping in all seven years that Armstrong's Tour titles were later stripped, yet their jersey wins were never revoked.

“I mean, if you look at the amount of positives it must be you know less than one percent well if i told you well joe we're all good man it's less than one perc…”

Armstrong claims that USADA's drug-testing positive rate is under one percent, implying this proves the agency is ineffective at catching dopers despite spending tens of millions of dollars a year.

“which is really, I think, bothered a lot of people that, that this person being me forced young impressionable young men to put dangerous substances into their…”

Armstrong denies that he forced younger teammates to dope, calling that characterization from the doping scandal coverage untrue.

“But I can't take, when I hear that this program or this particular athlete being me was the greatest fraud in the history of sport, you know, I can't. That's j…”

Armstrong disputes the characterization, attributed to USADA's findings, that his doping program was 'the greatest fraud in the history of sport.'

“But I mean, if you go back to the 84 games right here in Los Angeles, that was really the first major exposure you had for transfusions, which the American tea…”

Armstrong claims the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics was the first major public exposure of blood transfusion doping, done by the American cycling team and exposed by Rolling Stone.

“the Tour de France is 100 years old, right? So doping is cheating.”

Armstrong states that the Tour de France is 100 years old.

“So then they started testing the viscosity or the thickness of people's bloods, otherwise known as hematocrit, right? And so they would use that as a screen. A…”

Armstrong describes cycling's hematocrit test as a 50% health-based cutoff that riders could legally push right up to, framing it as a benign screening measure rather than a doping deterrent.

“Did anybody that was on the tour ever drop dead from EPO? Well there's, there, there was, you know, look, there, there, I don't know, I mean there are a lot of…”

Armstrong claims there was a documented wave of Dutch cyclists who died in their sleep in the 1980s from EPO use, then immediately hedges that it was never actually proven.