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>> he called the shots. if you're going to be on the team to win the tour de france, you have to have a certain performance level. and if you don't have that level, you're not going to make the team. it's that simple. >> and when people accused him of doping, armstrong demolished them. >> i was a bully in the sense that you just -- that i tried to control the narrative and if i didn't like what somebody said, and for whatever reasons in my own head, whether i viewed that as somebody being disloyal or as a friend turning on you or whatever, i tried to control that and say that's a lie, they're ...

Completely unfounded. lance armstrong is not alone among drug cheats. since 1998, more than a third of the top ten finishers in the tour de france have been linked to doping. but it wasn't until october 2012 that cycling's governing body the uci, took action against armstrong, stripping him of his seven tour de france titles. for years lance armstrong's position was absolutely clear. >> how could it have taken place? >> in 2005 his denials were passionate. >> how many times do i have to say it? >> i'm just trying to make sure your testimony is clear. >> well, if it can't be any clearer than i'...

Few things, about the system of doping, about the system of avoidance and detection. >> details usada says they need to hear before they lift the sporting ban. >> he's an athlete. lifetime. and he wants to continue that. he wants redemption. he wants to come back in the public eye. he wants to do good. >> like the good he did with livestrong, the foundation he started, helped in raising half a billion dollars and now may have fatally wounded. >> there's never been a more convincing denier. there's never been someone who has leveraged cancer patients as part of their doping denial. there has ne...

Organized effort by the u.s. postal service team to dupe the public and fool the authorities. >> you're looking at the bernie madoff of sport. this is the biggest fraud in the history of sport. the biggest. he couldn't have done it alone. >> and a book just out this week adds fuel to that fire, detailing an alleged conspiracy and cover-up throughout every level of the sport. the author spoke to anderson cooper. >> it's not just the doping. it's all the stuff around the doping. >> the sheer number of people who had an interest in protecting sort of lance incorporated, as you referred to it. >> ...

Found six samples from lance armstrong's '99 tour de france contained epo. but the governing body, the uci, took no action against armstrong. >> rather than open their doors and say let's try and understand what's going on here inside of our sport, they instead as far as i could work out tried to shut the case down. >> should the uci have acted on those results? >> in my view? of course they should have. they had the power to say you doped, you're out. >> on one other occasion the uci chose not to act. in 2001 tyler hamilton alleges lance armstrong tested positive for epo. >> luckily we had th...