Floyd Landis on Contador: His coach was my drug dealer — Transcript

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1. 0:00[Music]
2. 0:03what's the likelihood Alberto contador
3. 0:05used illegal drugs in winning his tour
4. 0:08to France titles I I can't give you
5. 0:11statistical likelihood but I know for
6. 0:13sure that his coach is my pre previous
7. 0:15drug
8. 0:16dealer what does that tell
9. 0:19you well I don't know maybe he found
10. 0:23Jesus yeah you can figure it
11. 0:26out what about Greg Lemont who won three
12. 0:30tour to France titles most accomplished
13. 0:33American cyclist other than Lance he's
14. 0:35well I know he's really outspoken
15. 0:37about uh about Lance and about drugs and
16. 0:40things like that I don't until very
17. 0:42recently I've not really gotten to know
18. 0:44him well and even now I don't know him
19. 0:46real well but I I've gotten to know him
20. 0:48um I know he's opinionated I I wasn't
21. 0:51there um but I know the drug culture and
22. 0:53cycling predates him by some time and so
23. 0:57if he's this is what I was trying to say
24. 0:58if he's the one guy that had that
25. 1:00ability then more power to him I mean he
26. 1:03certainly he certainly must have been
27. 1:05exposed to it when he was there and if
28. 1:07he didn't do it and he still won
29. 1:09then yeah it's impressive uh what's the
30. 1:12likelihood the cyclist could win the
31. 1:13Tour to France now without using illegal
32. 1:18drugs or then I I don't well I don't
33. 1:22know what the likelihood of anyone ever
34. 1:24be a being able to do it is even then
35. 1:27but I do know no one did it I mean I was
36. 1:29there I know how many people have been
37. 1:32caught and admitted to it in the last 25
38. 1:34years so it hasn't
39. 1:35happened um but that's not to say there
40. 1:37aren't there aren't prodigies and and
41. 1:40people have that have strange you know
42. 1:42abilities in life they come from
43. 1:43everywhere right they
44. 1:45can play the piano when they're two or
45. 1:48some crazy thing somebody somebody might
46. 1:50be able to do it all I know for sure is
47. 1:51no one has in a long time
48. 1:57and I I just I foresee it when you were
49. 2:02racing what percentage of the pelaton
50. 2:04was using illegal performance-enhancing
51. 2:07drugs oh I can't know for sure um I
52. 2:11probably shouldn't guess
53. 2:13but enough that if you weren't doing it
54. 2:16and you didn't know about it I don't
55. 2:17know where you came from because you
56. 2:19must not be paying attention what about
57. 2:21among the elite cyclists and the
58. 2:24pelaton enough that it I'd never feel
59. 2:27like I cheated Somebody by winning by
60. 2:29doing it
61. 2:30how do you change it how do you make it
62. 2:33right how do you make it fair how do you
63. 2:36make it you know genuine so you know
64. 2:40it's not finding out from somebody who
65. 2:44finally decides to speak it's people
66. 2:46know when they're watching it what
67. 2:49they're seeing is really what they're
68. 2:50seeing in the playing fields what they
69. 2:53expect the playing field to be life's
70. 2:56not fair man I mean there's that like
71. 2:59not fair telling a kid there's no Santa
72. 3:01Claus no look fair is when everybody
73. 3:04finishes together and gets a big hug
74. 3:05right right but I mean somebody wins
75. 3:07here right but I mean you're you know
76. 3:10you're talking about you know what's
77. 3:13wrong with the system the testing system
78. 3:17what changes can be made to correct the
79. 3:20problem I'll tell you where I would
80. 3:21start I I don't know how you I don't
81. 3:24know how you stop athletes from using
82. 3:26performance enhancing drugs or breaking
83. 3:28any other rule but I tell you what can
84. 3:30do you can have the body that the the
85. 3:32agency that enforces the rules apply the
86. 3:35rules to everybody exactly the same way
87. 3:36and until you do that nobody's going to
88. 3:39respect the rules because if you start
89. 3:41giving free passes to some people and
90. 3:42not others and they find out about it
91. 3:44you don't have any authority to enforce
92. 3:46rules at all and then there aren't any
93. 3:47rules so since you made the rules you
94. 3:49got to enforce them across the board and
95. 3:51it's it can never be perfect right there
96. 3:53can be all sorts of unforeseen
97. 3:56circumstances but if you clearly
98. 3:59prejudice some people and give other
99. 4:01people the benefit of the doubt then
100. 4:04then there are no rules and until that
101. 4:07happens never going to get fixed the
102. 4:10likelihood any of this happens in your
103. 4:12opinion it's not getting fixed
104. 4:14never and it's nothing an
105. 4:17investigation whether one going on now
106. 4:20or future investigation could
107. 4:23potentially change what that can change
108. 4:25and the purpose it does serve is that
109. 4:26people can now know what they're seeing
110. 4:28they'll know they can still like cycling
111. 4:30they can still watch it for the
112. 4:31beautiful scenery and the places they
113. 4:32race and and the drama that goes along
114. 4:34with it but what they need to understand
115. 4:37that it's not limited to what they're
116. 4:40just seeing the things that determine
117. 4:41who wins are are so many and so vast
118. 4:46that do you really want to think about
119. 4:48all that or do you just want to watch it
120. 4:49for what it is what you're seeing
121. 4:51because that's good enough isn't it I
122. 4:52mean people watch sports not to
123. 4:53complicate their lives not to make
124. 4:55them not to cause them even more reason
125. 4:58to wonder why the world isn't fair they
126. 5:02watch it because of the drama and and
127. 5:05who cares why the guy won but it seems
128. 5:07like you know whether you're a
129. 5:08professional athlete or somebody in any
130. 5:11profession if you get to a point where
131. 5:14you've worked your whole life to get to
132. 5:17this point and it's clear that either
133. 5:20you can find a new profession because
134. 5:24you're going to be unable
135. 5:26to have success unless you take a pill
136. 5:31or you can take a pill and continue the
137. 5:34pursuit of your dream and make money for
138. 5:37your family and doing what you
139. 5:39love you know that's quite the dilemma
140. 5:42and I can certainly see me being in that
141. 5:45situation saying well crap you know I've
142. 5:48worked 20 years of my life to get to
143. 5:50this point I'm going to take the pill
144. 5:52right but there's one I would add one
145. 5:54thing to that that you didn't mention
146. 5:56I'm sure you meant it is that you know
147. 5:58that the other guys are doing it I I
148. 5:59think that if you put that scenario out
149. 6:01there and say Here's a pill but no one
150. 6:04else has it some people would probably
151. 6:06feel guilty about it and not want to do
152. 6:07it right but if you know everyone else
153. 6:09is doing it some people will come back
154. 6:11with the stupid if you know everyone
155. 6:13jumped off a bridge then would you do it
156. 6:14that's just the dumbest thing that
157. 6:16doesn't make any sense this is not that
158. 6:18this is here are the rules that we all
159. 6:20know they're not the written rules but
160. 6:22there's a set of rules In Our Little
161. 6:24World these are the rules we play by
162. 6:26right and the goal would be to not have
163. 6:29have to
164. 6:30put people in that position so they have
165. 6:33to choose between morality and
166. 6:35continuing the pursuit of their dreams
167. 6:36it would be nice there could be a Level
168. 6:39Playing Field absent the drugs or people
169. 6:42doing things that could potentially harm
170. 6:44themselves but it that's the governing
171. 6:47body of cycling that that's up to well
172. 6:51yeah we certainly have to start with
173. 6:52them I mean when they're in on it then
174. 6:55then there's no hope
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