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Fall will go down as one of the tragedies in sports. an olympian that battled and beat cancer and admired around the world for his incredible athletic about tips and cape crashing down when he finally, finally admitted to rumors, some of them that he had been doping all along. armstrong s amazing career, what we were led to believe was an amazing career ruins, his reputation, a new book called lance armstrong the tour de france and the greatest sports conspiracy ever explains how he got away with doping so long and who helped him. it s written by vanessa o connell and more. i want to play a little bit of who he said. let s play that. yes or no, did you ever take banned substances to enhance your cycling performance? yes. yes or no, in all seven of ....
What he said. yes or no. did you ever take banned substances to enhance your cycling performance? yes. yes or no. in all seven of your tour de france victories, did you ever take banned substances or blood dope? yes. so he said a lot. but there was a lot he didn t say. what were some of the major things that he didn t go into? well, i think he didn t talk about the people who around him who helped him for 14 years cover up this massive doping conspiracy. he didn t talk about how it all transpired. right. the people who helped him, the enablers, the people who the governing bodies of cycling. like the uci. that took donations from him. that is to us that s really the interesting thing about this story is, it s not just the doping, it s all the stuff around the doping. and you really get into this in the book. ....
For lying about a stock sale. i will be back. she is. her company did million in ref revenues. and post prison, michael vick became an ambassador towards animal cruelty. whether it s a dog or cat, a reptile, you know, if it s a horse. golfer tiger woods survived an infidelity scandal to obtain the number one s ranking, and a sportscaster came back from his career, but such comebacks are not guaranteed. cycling legend lance armstrong fell. did you ever take banned substances to enhance your cycling performance? yes. it forced him to step down from the charity he founded, but ....
International hero, a seven-time tour de france, winner, the babe ruth, mohammad ali, the usain bolt of his sport. not to mention a public face in the fight against cancer. yet in his confessional last night with oprah, he confessed only what was obvious to anyone who wanted to see it, that he doped throughout his cycling career. but armstrong did not admit to cheating, denied he was a doping ringleader, didn t admit to bullying and worst of all, seemed emotionally incapable of sympathy for ts people whose lives he ruined and money he took when they tried to do nothing more than tell the truth about what he had done. joining me is the daily beast s buzz bissinger and sports editor for the nation dave zirin. buzz, i have to bring it up, in august of 2012, just five months ago, you wrote a cover story for newsweek entitled i still believe in lance armstrong, and yet last night armstrong s interview with oprah winfrey began with a series of yes, and no questions. did you ever ta ....
And they raised money. but do you get a free pass because the end result is good? i guess you do. but then again that goes to the next story which we are about to do, lance armstrong gets a free pass because of livestrong. it is like the hells angels. they always had the delivering the stuffed animals to the hospitals, but then the rest of the time they are delivering guns. but as long as you do something that is considered charitable, it allows you to do something else. are we okay with that? i suppose if they raise $2 million. so what you are saying because they did this they are allowed to knife somebody in altimont? talking to o, is he good to go? lance armstrong s interview aired and 34 billion people watched him say this crud. yes or no, did you ever take banned substances to enhance your cycling performance? yes. ....