Armstrong, Other Riders Doped, Author Says

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Published June 20, 2007 at 6:00 AM EDT

Champion bike racer Lance Armstrong used performance enhancing drugs to win his record seven consecutive Tour de France victories, according to a new book.

David Walsh, a sports journalist and author of From Lance to Landis: Inside the American Doping Controversy at the Tour de France, talks with Steve Inskeep.

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