Armstrong support for doping whistleblower

Lance Armstrong has written a foreword for Emma O’Reilly’s memoir and tweets his support on publication day.

Emma O'Reilly has written a book detailing her time as a soigneur (masseuse) for the US Postal cycling team and her part in the revelations of doping that eventually brought down Lance Armstrong.

O’Reilly was one of the first whistleblowers in cycling and when she first came clean on what she knew Armstrong branded her a whore and an alcoholic.

It was only during the famous interview with Oprah Winfrey that Armstrong finally admitted that she was right and he had falsified his own allegations.

Emma O’Reilly on The Late Late Show following the Lance Armstrong interview on Oprah

The pair have since reconciled to such a degree that Armstrong actually wrote the foreword for her book ‘The Race to Truth: Blowing the whistle on Lance Armstrong and cycling’s doping culture’.

Tonight's the night! Our book launch with @Emma_OReilly. Free to attend, it's going to be a great night!

— 📚 Waterstones Wilmslow 📚 (@wswilmslow) July 3, 2014

The book is being launched today in the UK and Armstrong has tweeted his support for both the book and Emma.

Best wishes to @Emma_OReilly for her book launch today. I was honored and humbled that she asked me to write the forward. #theracetotruth

— Lance Armstrong (@lancearmstrong) July 3, 2014