Based on the case against Lance Armstrong and years of denials and lies, are you convinced that the disgraced former Tour de France kingpin is coming clean in his interview with Talk Show queen Oprah Winfrey or still protecting many more others from being implicated?

Here are the facts of the case and a summary of some of the issues addressed in the first instalment of the Worldwide Exclusive aired on Friday morning.

YOU make up your mind!

THE CASE AGAINST ARMSTRONG

* The achievements of USPS/Discovery Channel pro cycling team, of which Armstrong was part of, were, according to the United States Anti-Doping Agency (Usada), accomplished through the most sophisticated, professional and successful doping programme that sport has ever seen.

* The American was “engaged in serial cheating” and his career at the team was fuelled from start to finish by doping.

* More than a dozen former team-mates, friends and former team employees confirmed a fraudulent course of conduct.

* Armstrong acted with the help of a small army of enablers, including doping doctors, drug smugglers and others within and outside the sport and his team.

* He had ultimate control over not only his own personal drug use but over the doping culture of the team.

* Team staff were good at predicting when testers would turn up and seemed to have inside information.

The evidence is beyond strong and as strong as any case brought by Usada in its existence.

ARMSTRONG TOLD OPRAH

* The took performance-enhancing drugs in each of his Tour wins from 1999-2005.

* Doping was “part of the process required to win the Tour.”

* He did not feel he was cheating at the time and viewed it as a “level playing field.”

* He he did not fear getting caught.

* All the fault and blame” should lie with him.

* He was a bully who “turned on” people he did not like.

* His cancer fight in the mid-1990s gave him a “win-at-all costs” attitude.

* He would now co-operate with official inquiries into doping in cycling.

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Article via BBC/Jacaranda News