Now one of the race directors at the Tour of California, Andreu told Pelley he took banned substances because lesser riders he believed were doping were passing him.
“Training alone wasn’t doing it and I think that’s how ... many of the other riders during that era felt, I mean, you kind of didn’t have a choice,” he is quoted as saying.
Andreu’s wife, Betsy, who has said Armstrong discussed taking performance-enhancing drugs as doctors prepared him for cancer treatment in 1996, said she and her husband are working with investigators.
“We are cooperating, and we’ll just tell the truth. And telling the truth has been costly,” she said. “It’s not popular to tell the truth about Lance.”
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I mean, you kind of didn’t have a choice,” he is quoted as saying.
You always have a choice. Always.