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Buzz Bissinger: I Was Deluded to Believe Lance Armstrong When He Denied Doping

MEA CULPA

Buzz Bissinger says he relied on a manipulative liar who insisted he didn’t win his cycling championships through doping. A Pulitzer Prize winner’s mea culpa.

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"I Still Believe in Lance Armstrong."

That was the headline on the cover of Newsweek last Aug. 17.

It still makes me cringe.

It deserves to make me cringe.

The "I" referred to me.

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