Walsh wins race for the truth

David Walsh’s last face-to-face meeting with disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong tells you all you need to know about the Irishman’s uncompromising style.

In April 2001 he boarded a flight to Nantes to meet Armstrong at a hotel near Bordeaux in the south of France.

Two years earlier, he had provoked the fury of Armstrong and his army of supporters in an article that appeared in The Sunday Times on the day he won the first of his seven Tour de France titles.