In a 2006 interview given to the New York Times, Andreu admitted that he had taken the banned blood-boosting drug EPO to help prepare for the 1999 Tour de France.
Andreu said that he was introduced to Performance-Enhancing Drugs in 1995 while he was riding for Motorola along with Armstrong and Swart. Swart, who lives in Auckland, was among the first people to break the code of silence around the team's drug programme and implicate Armstrong.
Armstrong branded Swart a liar who had mental health issues.
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Of reports that Armstrong wanted to meet Kiwi cyclist Stephen Swart to apologise, Andreu said: "Ah, the power of the sound-bite. Say it, it will be printed and usually that's the end of the story."
"He and his lawyers think that merely saying how sorry he is will suffice," she told the Herald. "Sorry is a three-pronged process: 1. Acknowledge wrong doing 2. Apologize for it 3. Amends must be made."
"Lance told me he was sorry and said he didn't care where or when as long as it was soon, he wanted to meet with us. I made sure he'd be in Austin willing to meet with me before committing to an anti-doping panel at UT [University of Texas] Austin; he assured me over six weeks he would."
"Before I got on the plane he sent me an email saying he couldn't meet but to enjoy myself cuz Austin's a great city. No one printed that, but they were sure to say how sorry he said he was for what he did to us."
The Andreu's claimed under court subpoena that Armstrong, in their presence, told his cancer doctors in Indianna in 1996 that he had used EPO, growth hormone and steroids all banned performance enhancing drugs.
Armstrong said the Andreus might have been confused and that the drugs were mentioned in relation to his post-operative treatment.
In his televised interview with Oprah, Armstrong admitted doping to win seven Tour de France races but declined to address the question of the hospital room. "I'm not going to take that on," he said. "I'm laying down on that one."
"If he's there [in Auckland] for a while, maybe he still will call him? I hope Stephen is onto him if he does. He's been contrite to the people he thinks he can charm and/or those he wasn't close too."
Armstrong claimed to Irish media in October that he had apologised to Andreu.
"I've apologised multiple times [to Betsy Andreu] ... What I've learned is you can't force someone to accept an apology. Whether it's the Andreus, whether it's the LeMonds, whether it's Emma O'Reilly [...] I've travelled the world to make it right with these people."
"Not only did I say [sorry]," said Armstrong, "but I meant it. I don't know what else I need to do."
Swart told the Herald late this morning that a third party had passed his phone number to Armstrong Monday morning but he had yet to receive a call.
