The worst kept secret in sports is reportedly, no longer a secret as a person familiar with the situation has told the Associated Press that Lance Armstrong has confessed to using performance-enhancing drugs to win the Tour de France. The revelation coming in an interview with Oprah Winfrey on Monday.

The worst kept secret in sports is reportedly, no longer a secret as a person familiar with the situation has told the Associated Press that Lance Armstrong has confessed to using performance-enhancing drugs to win the Tour de France.

The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the interview is to be broadcast Thursday on Winfrey's network. In a text to the AP on Saturday, Armstrong said: "I told her (Winfrey) to go wherever she wants and I'll answer the questions directly, honestly and candidly. That's all I can say."

Local and international news crews staked out positions in front of the cyclist's Spanish-style villa before dawn, hoping to catch a glimpse of Winfrey or Armstrong. However, after earlier saying they would film the interview at his home, the location apparently changed to a hotel.

Ahead of the interview, Armstrong said he was "calm, at ease and ready to speak candidly" but declined to go into specifics. Those specifics apparently now, including him coming clean about his cheating.

Armstrong was stripped of all seven Tour titles last year following an in depth U.S. Anti-Doping Agency report that painted him as the leader of what was called by USADA "The most sophisticated, professionalized and successful doping program that sport has ever seen."

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