I always asked [what I was being given]. I always knew, and I always made the decision on my own," he said. "Nobody said, 'Don't ask, this is what you're getting.' I never, ever would have gone for that. I educated myself on what was being given, and I chose to do it."

Armstrong dominated professional cycling in the 2000s and won the Tour de France seven years in a row from 1999 to 2005. He was later stripped of those titles and received a lifetime ban from the sport in 2012 after the US Anti-Doping Agency determined he was the key figure in a sophisticated doping programme on the US Postal Service team.

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In 2013, he confessed to doping starting in 1996 in a televised interview with US chat-show host Oprah Winfrey. Armstrong's latest admission could also cast a doubt over the world road race title he won in Oslo in 1993, considering he had turned professional the previous season.

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