Disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong believes he will one day be handed back his seven Tour de France jerseys.
The 53-year-old admitted he still keeps all seven yellow jerseys – awarded for winning the gruelling bike race – hung up in his office and bluntly told any rivals ‘come and claim them’.
Armstrong had the ultimate comeback story, recovering from testicular cancer to win the Tour de France every year between 1998 and 2005.
He retired from cycling in 2005 but came back in 2009 where he went on to race for three more years.
However, doping allegations dogged him ever since his 1999 Tour win. Eventually whistleblowers and investigations found he was the ringleader in the ‘most sophisticated drugs cheating programme in sports history’.
Armstrong was eventually stripped of those seven titles and confessed during a now infamous Oprah Winfrey interview.
Recently, he joined Steve-O on his Wild Ride! Podcast and said he believes history will continue to edit his story.
When asked if he had never come back in 2009 then his doping would never have come out, he said: “History is not stupid, history always tells the truth. All you have to do is wait. For me to sit here and say ‘if I’d have never come back…’
“I think history catches up with everybody. That, in the short term for me, was difficult. History edited my story as this played out.
“The version that it was edited to at the time was that he didn’t win any tours. I was stripped of all seven. It says those years that there is no winner.
“Here you have an event like the tour that is beautiful and iconic and historical – it has to have a winner.
“History doesn’t stop and it doesn’t stop editing. It will continue to be edited and eventually the truth will be told.
Armstrong joined Jackass star Steve-O on his podcastYouTube“What really matters is that I don’t give a s*** what the history books say now and don’t give a s*** what was written.
“What I care about is the people who were in the trenches – my teammates and the people who got beat, the people I wanted to beat, and the people I refused to hug.
“If you ask them what happened, they will tell you what happened. They will tell you who won those races. That is so true and so special, that history will correct that story.
“I might be long gone and dead, but history never stops editing.”
Armstrong went on to admit that all seven of those jerseys still hang in his office and his refuses to take them down.
He told Steve-O: “You didn’t park in my office, but if you did and walked inside then you will see seven yellow jerseys hanging on the wall. No one has come to claim them.
Armstrong confessed all in an interview with OprahGetty“I toed the line with 200 other guys for seven years and not one of those dudes has rolled up to my office and said ‘give me that jersey’.
“If they wanted to show up to my office and make a claim for one, they can have it.”
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