Cyclist Lance Armstrong confessed to Oprah Winfrey during an interview on Monday that he used performance enhancing drugs to win the Tour de France, a person familiar with the situation said. (Getty Images)
Armstrong was stripped of all seven Tour titles last year following a voluminous US Anti-Doping Agency report that portrayed him as a ruthless competitor, willing to go to any lengths to win the prestigious race. (Getty Images)
The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the interview is to be broadcast Thursday on Winfrey's network.(Getty Images)
After a federal investigation of the cyclist was dropped without charges being brought last year, USADA stepped in with an investigation of its own. The agency deposed 11 former teammates and accused Armstrong of masterminding a complex and brazen drug program that included steroids, blood boosters and a range of other performance-enhancers. (Getty Images)
USADA chief executive Travis Tygart labeled the doping regimen allegedly carried out by the US Postal Service team that Armstrong once led, "The most sophisticated, professionalized and successful doping program that sport has ever seen."(Getty Images)
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