Queen’s University professor Jill Scott, who researches forgiveness, can comment on Lance Armstrong publicly apologizing during an interview with Oprah Winfrey. The seven-time Tour de France winner confessed to doping and also to feeling no sense of wrongdoing.

Part two of the interview airs tonight.

“Lance Armstrong surprised us all last night by giving a stellar apology on Oprah,” says Dr. Scott. “He covered his all the bases: confession, contrition, acknowledgement of harms, remorse, and so on. But the longer the interview went on, the further he moved from responsibility to blame. In the end, we saw the same need for control we've seen all along. He was a control freak on the bike and now he's controlling the apology.”

Dr. Scott is the author of A Poetics of Forgiveness: Cultural Responses to Loss and Forgiveness (Palgrave Macmillan 2010).

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