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Lance Armstrong: Competitors know I won 7 Tour de France titles

Lance Armstrong said that his competitors would agree with him that he’s a seven-time Tour de France champion, despite being stripped of those titles in 2012 due to doping.

In a Dan Patrick Show interview Tuesday, Armstrong was asked if he still considered himself a seven-time Tour winner as his Twitter bio says.

“I know that’s a polarizing subject question, and it’s certainly polarizing for me to have that on there,” Armstrong said. “I think the 200 guys that took that start line, all of those seven years, I think if we went and asked those guys who won the races, they would tell you who won the races.