...Armstrong as he told doctors that he had taken an array of performance-enhancing drugs including EPO, testosterone, growth hormone and cortisone.
Armstrong made the confession having recently undergone surgery after being diagnosed with cancer. Andreu had been present because her fiancé (now husband) Frankie was a professional cyclist and one of Armstrong’s most valued team-mates.
For several years, the confession was known only to the six people who heard it. But when Andreu, who was so fiercely opposed to drug-taking that she had told Frankie she would not marry him if she found he had doped, helped to make the story public, she was subjected to sustained abuse and bullying by Armstrong and those around him, who sustained the myth of his heroism until it was so dramatically exposed over the past few weeks.
More at the site.she found a Thermos of EPO in Frankie’s fridge. She would later recount: “I thought it was best for him to get off Lance’s team. Frankie promised me he would not use EPO anymore. Frankie then refused to go on the extensive doping programme written for most of his team-mates by [disgraced doctor] Michele Ferrari. Indeed Frankie’s refusal to follow Ferrari’s methods meant he was cast off the team in 2000.”
The relationship with Armstrong became even more bitter as he sought to persuade her to sign a false statement, denying the hospital confession had taken place.
“The more dismissed I got, the more Frankie got dismissed in cycling and when it affects Frankie, it affects me,’’ Betsy said. “Frankie didn’t try and stifle me, he respected me to be the vocal person. You have to do the right thing, imagine if I had lied, how would my reputation be now?”
Prompted by his wife, Frankie admitted doping. That was when the harassment and attempted intimidation by Armstrong ramped up. In an email, Armstrong warned Frankie he should keep Betsy quiet: “By helping to bring me down is not going to help y’alls situation at all. There is a direct link to all of our success here. I suggest you remind her of that,” Armstrong wrote.
Armstrong ridiculed Betsy at every opportunity. "The worst day was in 2006 when my deposition [about the hospital evidence] was leaked and Frankie had left that day to go to France so I was left here alone,” she said. “I was being described by Lance as fat and ugly. That doesn’t matter, but the crux of the matter is people believed him that I was crazy and unhinged and they just bumped me.
This gets worse with each new article coming out. Sometimes, it is a witch hunt only because it is a witch that is being hunted.
Notice how Armstrong's supporters never mention this little detail on choosing the arbitrators just endlessly droning on how it would be unfair wah wah wah and try and distract from the evidence presented against him with an obvious ad hominem.
