Desperate Armstrong still has not come clean

The two Irish sportswriters who doggedly pursued Lance Armstrong throughout his career have dismissed the disgraced Texan’s TV confessional as a futile, desperate bid to mount one last climb — this time, out of the gutter he has mired himself in.

Reacting to th e first part of the Oprah Winfrey interview, author and ex-Sunday Times journalist Paul Kimmage insisted Armstrong was only sorry because he had been caught and his apology was useless unless he went on to testify under oath about his drug-taking.

“I don’t know whether he wants to leverage that (his admission of guilt) against something else, whether he’s trying to cut a deal that would enable him to compete in triathlons, but if he’s genuine about it, he’ll be knocking on Travis Tygart’s door today and saying: ‘Okay I will testify under oath, I want to do this sport a service, I’ve caused it terrible damage. I know I can do it a service now, I can tell you exactly, what I did, how I did it and who enabled me to do it.’