The questions Oprah Winfrey should put to Lance Armstrong The Sunday Times wants Oprah Winfrey to ask Lance Armstrong whether he accepts "lying to the cancer community was the greatest deception of all." TALK show queen Oprah Winfrey has been urged to ask disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong whether his "greatest deception" was lying to the cancer community. The Sunday Times has taken out an advertisement in the Chicago Tribune with 10 questions it wants Winfrey to ask Armstrong. The British newspaper - which in December announced it was suing Armstrong for more than $1.5 million over a libel payment made to him in 2006 - picked the Chicago Tribune as it is in the city where Winfrey hosts her show on her OWN cable TV network to be broadcast on Thursday. Among the questions chief sports writer David Walsh asks are whether Armstrong told doctors in 1996 that he had used EPO, human growth hormone, cortisone, steroids and testosterone, whether he intends to return his prizemoney, and whether he accepts "lying to the cancer community was the greatest deception of all." Other questions are: "Did you tell doctors at the Indiana University Hospital on Oct 27, 1996 that you had taken EPO, human growth hormone, cortisone, steroids and testosterone?" After returning from cancer how did you justify putting banned drugs in your body? And: "Did you sue The Sunday Times to shut us up?" Armstrong's decision to talk to the famed US talk show host has divided opinion, as some say he needs to do something radical to rehabilitate his public profile, while others say speaking out will only make matters worse. The crux of the matter is whether Armstrong, having been stripped of his seven Tour de France titles, will finally admit that he was a drugs cheat. Such a confession would overturn more than a decade of strenuous denials. There is also a potential threat to Armstrong's liberty, stemming from the fallen icon's role in the US Postal Service team, where he spent his most successful years in the saddle. Having been paid by the government, the former team leader could face criminal charges for making fraudulent statements to his bosses. He could also be accused of perjury over disclosures made under oath to a US federal jury in 2005. If convicted, each false statement could lead to five years in jail. Armstrong has always maintained that he did not use banned substances during his stellar career, but in August last year he chose not to contest charges put forward by the US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) that he was a serial drugs cheat. The Sunday Times was one of the few publications to openly query Armstrong's innocence during his career. The newspaper had to pay Armstrong $459,000 to settle a libel case after previously suggesting that he may have cheated. The Sunday Times is reportedly demanding the return of the original settlement payment, along with interest and legal costs. The newspaper had long questioned Armstrong's achievements and in 2004 it published an article stating that it was appropriate for questions about his success to be "posed and answered."