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Cardinal rule?

“Frankly, this may not be the most popular answer, but I think I deserve it,” he told Winfrey.

In choosing Winfrey, Armstrong dodged the news media that had been accusing him for years, trading Winfrey’s softball questions and avoiding an interrogator who would have grilled him properly. Yet even in those circumstances Armstrong seemed to fail to come entirely clean. He did not reveal why he chose to take the doping route, how he did it and who helped him do it and cover it up for so long. He denied trying to buy influence with the anti-doping body USADA with an offer of a donation of millions of dollars. He said he had stayed clean of drugs in his 2009 attempted comeback, something that runs counter to a damning USADA report that catalogued all the accusations against him.

Winfrey asked Armstrong if he might “rise again” in public life to reclaim some of his once golden boy reputation as the cancer-beating super athlete. “I don't know. I don’t know. I don’t know what's out there,” Armstrong replied. Whatever it is, it’s almost certainly not good.

Armstrong’s errors

Didn’t cry properly

When high-profile guests appear on Oprah Winfrey’s show, they are expected to weep copiously as they reveal all. Someone as competitive as Armstrong knows that second place counts for nothing: his choking up and near-tears just did not cut it. America wanted rivers of tears.