Kimmage believes Armstrong may come clean on drug days

Irish author and campaigning sportswriter Paul Kimmage has hinted that disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong may come clean about his drug-fuelled rise to the top of the sport.

Armstrong won the Tour de France seven times in a row between 1999 and 2005 but was later found guilty by the US Anti-Doping Agency of being a key member in what it described as the “most sophisticated, professionalised and successful doping programme that sport has ever seen”.

Speaking in Limerick at the ‘Cycle 4 Sick Children’ charity fundraiser over the weekend, Kimmage admitted a confession from the Texan may be nigh. “It’s really the only avenue he has left now in terms of trying to get back some of the support he had before,” said the award-winning author.