Cycling's governing body strips Lance Armstrong of 7 Tour titles and bans him for life — Transcript

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1. 0:06uci will ban lance armstrong from
2. 0:08cycling
3. 0:09and uci will strip him of his seven tour
4. 0:12de france titles
5. 0:14lance armstrong has no place in cycling
6. 0:18the uci will also recognize the
7. 0:20sanctions imposed upon the riders who
8. 0:21testified against lance armstrong
9. 0:24uci indeed thanks them for telling their
10. 0:28i mean stories
11. 0:30there's the whole case
12. 0:32there's uh
13. 0:34i have to say and i have to admit
14. 0:37as a cyclist and somebody coming from a
15. 0:39cycling background i was sickened by
16. 0:41what i read in the usada report
17. 0:44one stands to mind very strongly to me
18. 0:47was david zabriskie
19. 0:49the the story that he told of how he was
20. 0:52coerced
21. 0:53and to some extent forced into doping
22. 0:56and is just is is is mind boggling
23. 1:00states when they call these writers they
24. 1:02have a commitment to the fight against
25. 1:03doping always had a commitment and if i
26. 1:05have to apologize now on behalf of the
27. 1:07uci what i will say is that i am sorry
28. 1:10that we couldn't catch every damn one of
29. 1:12them red handed and throw them out of
30. 1:14the sport
31. 1:16individual interview please stay here in
32. 1:18the room we take 10 minutes break for mr
33. 1:21president for you too also because we
34. 1:23have to make some setups
35. 1:50foreign
36. 2:06good morning everybody
37. 2:08uh
38. 2:09well welcome back to downtown austin for
39. 2:11the uh the ride for the road roses which
40. 2:13started uh actually 16 years ago
41. 2:16um
42. 2:17it is uh as doug said this is
43. 2:32i'll take it with me
44. 2:39five
45. 2:40four three
46. 2:42two
47. 2:43one races
48. 3:12hey great