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I can see it now.
"The whole peloton were taking HRG and testosterone and I was already at a disadvantage after losing one of my testicles to cancer. Would I have doped if it wasn't for the cancer? Probably. But my hormonal disadvantage made the decision less difficult for me"
Personally, I am expecting a completely candid admission with a few bombshells thrown in to smokescreen a little. Call me naive but his most profitable defence is to tell the whole truth.
His PR advisers will be advising him that there is no viable damage limitation technique left apart from put himself in the brightest spot-light possible and tell the real truth. This will be his advice especially if he has information that will lead back to the UCI. One of the best bits about this approach is that some of the stuff that we have read in the media is bound to be factually inaccurate so LA will have the chance to be truthful but also to create enough of a fact haze to begin to win over some of the public enough to perhaps invest in his next book etc etc.
The key thing for LA to achieve is to humanise himself in a morally decent way. The long period of silence since the main story broke has served two purposes. Firstly (as myself and several others mentioned up thread) it will allow him to move his wealth to the small number of countries that do not have tax treaties with the USA in order to minimise his losses should he find himself in court against the US Government. Secondly, his silence has given the public enough time to demonise him to the point that within reason, any sort of admission is going to improve the perception that the public has of him.