foundation and me leads me to where i am today, finished with this nonsense. as i said the united states anti-doping agency came down quickly after he threw in the towel on this one, stripping him of all seven of his tour de france titles, lifetime ban from the sport, also loses the bronze medal at the 2000 olympic games. it is a sad story in a lot of ways. but you have to believe this arbitration hearing that was coming, there were going to be apparently ten witnesses, many his own teammates saying they saw him do this. again he maintains he never tested positive for anything. he was a brand and the brand is damaged. what makes it worst, he s hardly unique. across sports and all sorts of enhancing drugs. this is a play in modern sports, the playing field is not level. this is the umpteenth example. you don t know what to believe, what to trust. this is not a good thing. yeah. we saw it in baseball too, mark halperin, back-to-back 50-game suspensions for banned
front page of the daily news, stripped, lance armstrong throwing in the towel on charges that have followed him the better part of 10, 15 years being stripped of all his titles. is that an admission he did something wrong and didn t want to face the arbitration and see the evidence against him? he says it wasn t an admission, it s a nonadmission admission. he s gone forward, all these eyewitnesses would have spoken about it, chapter and verse. seems to me there were enough eyewitnesses, enough smoke you have to say there s fire and it s sad. this guy one of the iconic athletes of our time, made this event popular and brought it to all sorts of people who never watched it before and leading people in the world in sports and sad. so much bigger than sports with the live strong group and everything he s done for cancer. put out a statement after announcing he will not fight these charges anymore he said there comes a point in every man s life when he has to say enough is enough. for
substances. the thing that s closest to it is pete rose, somebody a long-time legendary figure, this because of all his charitable work and work on cancer is more emotional for people. for some reason tea he s a huge lightning rod and it s common for people to say this is an admission, but it s more sad to me than anything else because he can t compete in other sports now and we ll never really probably know the facts. yeah. and i mean, this is either the greatest and i mean worst witch hunt sports has ever seen or lance armstrong is maybe one of the more pathological sports figures we ve ever seen. to say with a straight face for years and under such scrutiny, didn t do it, and, you know, he was ig dig nant about this too. you re right, we ll probably never know. that may be one of the bigger tragedies of this. certainly his legacy is tarnished. and comes to mind, roger