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Disappointed ... Phil Liggett was once a staunch defender of Lance Armstrong. Source: Sarah Reed / News Limited
Veteran cycling commentator Phil Liggett is one of several prominent people within the sport to have criticised the lack of detail and real contrition in Lance Armstrong's confession during his interview with Oprah Winfrey.
Liggett, nicknamed 'the voice of cycling', used to strongly support Armstrong.
"It was not a deep and sincere apology if that's what we were looking for," Liggett said.
"He has to name names.
"He doesn't seem to realise the incredulous crime he's committed."
Retired Australian Tour de France star Robbie McEwen, who organised charity rides with Armstrong in this country only a couple of years ago, said he felt deceived.
"It's changed everyone's opinion of him," McEwen said of the confession.
"Everyone wanted to believe in the hero, the fairy tale story.
"I don't think there's a person on the planet who even remotely follows cycling who hasn't changed their opinion of what we thought Lance was."
Fellow Australian cycling great Stuart O'Grady was among those who stressed the sport had changed since Armstrong's Tour reign.
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"The damage has been done, there's no getting around that,'' O'Grady said.
"But what we can do now is look to the future."
The man who oversaw the doping investigation into Armstrong has called the disgraced cyclist's confession a step in the right direction.
US Anti-Doping Agency chief executive Travis Tygart said Armstrong now must give more formal evidence about his doping past.
Reaction to Armstrong's much-anticipated interview with talk show host Oprah Winfrey was as wide and varied as the opinions of him have always been.
Watch part two of Lance Armstrong's interview with Oprah Winfrey on the Discovery Channel on Foxtel, from 1pm (EDT) Saturday.
There was fascination, great sadness, indifference and revulsion.
Tygart was matter-of-fact.
Armstrong once called the USADA investigation that Tygart oversaw into his cycling career a "witch hunt", but chose not to contest its exhaustive report when it was published last August.
The Texan was stripped of his record seven Tour de France titles, his Olympic bronze medal from 2000 and banned from all sanctioned sport for life.
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"If he is sincere in his desire to correct his past mistakes, he will testify under oath about the full extent of his doping activities," Tygart said in a statement.
Cycling's world body, UCI, is in the midst of an argument about whether there should be a truth and reconciliation process for the sport.
UCI president Pat McQuaid said in a statement that Armstrong's interview was disturbing.
"Armstrong also rightly said that cycling is a completely different sport today than it was 10 years ago," McQuaid added.
"In particular the UCI's introduction of the biological passport in 2008 - the first sports federation to do so - has made a real difference in the fight against doping.
"Finally, we note that Lance Armstrong expressed a wish to participate in a truth and reconciliation process, which we would welcome."
Australia's Tour de France pioneer Phil Anderson, a team-mate of Armstrong's in the early 1990s, said the interview had not told him much new.
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"I don't think anything was really revealed, beyond what had been leaked," Anderson said.
"Finally we hear it from him.
"You look at his body language, he doesn't look any different to his usual interview."
Betsy Andreu, the wife of Armstrong's former teammate Frankie Andreu and one of the first to publicly accuse the Texan of doping, agreed.
"I'm really disappointed,'' Andreu, who was repeatedly attacked by Armstrong over the years, told CNN.
"After what you've done to me, what you've done to my family and you couldn't own up to it. And now we're supposed to believe you?" she said.
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