Lance Armstrong compared himself to Lord Voldemort

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Despite what you may be thinking, Lord Voldemort, the evil wizard from the Harry Potter series, isn't set to have a new storyline in which he admits to taking performance enhancing drugs.

In an interview with The Telegraph, Lance Armstrong, the disgraced cyclist who was stripped of his seven Tour de France medals in 2012 after a doping scandal, compared himself to the Harry Potter villain who is so awful that characters prefer to refer to him as He Who Must Not Be Named:

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Samantha Rollins

Samantha Rollins is TheWeek.com's news editor. She has previously worked for The New York Times and TIME and is a graduate of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism.