coke can, crush it, give it to a team doctor to dispose. but it didn t all go to plan. lance armstrong was tested for drugs during the tour. and one of his samples revealed a significant level of a banned cortico steroid. emma s duties included to giving armstrong a massage after his rides. during one of these massages, she says an urgent discussion took place between armstrong and the team s management. the conversation was what are we going to do, here s a problem, we need a solution and how do we act upon the solution. and are we happy with the solution. so the problem was lance had tested high in the cortisone. the solution was prescription. what was the prescription for, why was he taking it?
are we all happy with that? we re happy with that. let s get the team doctor to write a prescription. dr. louis demoral has been now issued with a lifetime sporting ban by the agency usada. emily o reilly says he issued for cortisone cream for saddle sores and back dated it. had he complained to you about saddle sores? no. the whole thing was just a back dated prescription to help kind of explain his elevated cortisone level in the test of prologue. of course, if he had been prescribed this cream, then it should have been listed as a on the exemption. exactly. and it wasn t because he wasn t taking the cream. it was just purely back dated to cover up that cortisone elevation, yeah. the back dated prescription was rigged to suit the test.
powerful organ in the body, responsible for all of our most powerful emotions. that s why as david said, we have a more positive narrative towards the end of the week. the guys were caught, you know. the one was killed, one was brought in. that s a positive narrative. the narrative of the medical responders, that was a great story for the public to watch because those stories trigger more positive emotions. the fear emotion releases stress hormones, adrenaline, noradrenaline, cortisone. they can wear you down. they create what i have written about and call a cycle of worry. you ask the question about can anyone get ptsd, not just the people involved. i want to talk about that for a minute. in boston first there s the people that were involved in the event. they got injured or they were right there when the bombs went off. that s the inner circle. then there s the rest of the city that went on lockdown for a couple of weeks. then there s the rest of us watching these images on tv. do yo
yes or no, was one of those banned substances epo? yes. did you ever blood dope or use blood transfusions to enhance your cycling performance? yes. did you ever use any other banned substances like testosterone, cortisone or human growth hormone? yes. whatever. should lance get another chance? not so fast, not so fasters. most people in the cycling and anti-doping world, 12 people, were not that impressed. they said it was more self-serving than relative. the teammate armstrong attacked for calling him a doper and a liar was miffed. he owed it to me. you owed it to me, lance, and you dropped the ball. after what you have done to me, what you have done to my family and you couldn t own up to it. dropped the ball. that s kind of low. as part of lance s punishment he is only allowed to ride a certain bike like this.
cycling fans and officials now reacting to lance armstrong s blockbuster confession that he cheated for years to win. did you ever blood dope or use blood transfusions to enhance your cycling performance? yes. did you ever use any other banned substances like testosterone? cortisone or human growth hormone? yes. well, the world anti-doping agency not too impressed with armstrong s confession. its president saying that armstrong s claim that doping was method to create a level playing field amounted to a convenient way of justifying fraud. and he says if armstrong was looking for redemption, did he not succeed. others had mixed feelings. i don t condone what he did. and it s a little late on the confessing. but i m glad is finally coming out and doing it. i can t believe he denied it all that time. i don t care. he is not hurting me. he didn t hurt me by hurting,