Lance Armstrong is prepared to admit (we think) that he took performance enhancing drugs during his days of dominating the Tour de France. Then today Canada’s CBC News reported the following bombshell which changes everything. Armstrong used… rugs? We know it is just the latest on tv typo but still it is funny to imagine Armstrong going to the local hardware store to pick up his next -uh fix. H/T: USA Today
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