Lance Armstrong Press Statement Responding to Landis Accusations Part 2 — Transcript

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1. 0:00compers who have the the medical waste
2. 0:01in last that's I have no idea what's
3. 0:05what what the story is there I've not
4. 0:06been asked about that I've not been
5. 0:08informed about that other people are
6. 0:09aware of that
7. 0:13but that it this is the last time we're
8. 0:16talking about it so if you got questions
9. 0:18can we have a picture over
10. 0:20here a minute are you going to win
11. 0:22today's stage no is it Floyd sort of I
12. 0:25mean you guys were close friends see jul
13. 0:28great question it's very sad
14. 0:30it's very sad I think at one point or
15. 0:33another all of us implicated have cared
16. 0:35about Floyd I mean that's one thing we
17. 0:36all share in common we might be on
18. 0:38different teams come from different
19. 0:39backgrounds be in different places in
20. 0:41our lives but at some point or another
21. 0:43we share this bond that we all gave
22. 0:46ladder to Floyd at some point in his
23. 0:48life when he dug himself a hole we we
24. 0:50gave him the ladder to dig out of the
25. 0:51Mercury situation Andy Reese came along
26. 0:54and gave him a ladder to to to to dig
27. 0:56out of that hole all the other friends
28. 0:58have come people aren't throwing him
29. 0:59ladders
30. 1:00anymore and so it's uh but I don't I
31. 1:03don't I don't want to make a personal
32. 1:05attack on Floyd Lis I don't think he's a
33. 1:06good guy or a bad guy I think he's
34. 1:08certainly has some issues listen you
35. 1:10know that as well as I do I don't I
36. 1:13don't need to share I'm not I'm not
37. 1:14breaking any news here with you guys and
38. 1:18uh do you remember any good times with
39. 1:20him you
40. 1:23Des he's he's Floyd's an interesting
41. 1:25character I mean he's he's funny he's
42. 1:28he's uh he's vol
43. 1:31obviously but uh yeah you know are you
44. 1:34prepared to say you're against
45. 1:35performance
46. 1:36drugs of course we're prepared to say
47. 1:38that and we backed it up I've been here
48. 1:40for 20 years saying the same
49. 1:42thing the fact that I'm I'm almost 39
50. 1:46years old out here is still at the front
51. 1:47of the group I think says it all I don't
52. 1:48need to I don't need to beat that dead
53. 1:50horse respond specifically to Floyd's
54. 1:52playing that you and Johan taught him
55. 1:54how to dop other than saying it's not
56. 1:57true I don't know what your response is
57. 1:59that's as I said I mean now we can only
58. 2:00speak about what happened on our team I
59. 2:02can't tell you what happened at phon I
60. 2:04can't tell you how he won the the 2006
61. 2:07tour to France it's it's it's compelling
62. 2:09that in all this the one thing that
63. 2:11brought this about was was the you know
64. 2:14testing positive for syn synthetic just
65. 2:16just us and that's
66. 2:17not he denies that
67. 2:20still which is slightly off but uh we
68. 2:26categorically denied that that we were
69. 2:28at all in any way involved and teaching
70. 2:30anybody forget about FL teaching anybody
71. 2:33how to do
72. 2:34that hard to hear what about the impact
73. 2:37on US cycling and cycling support no
74. 2:41doubt it's not a good it's not a good
75. 2:42story I mean this is this is a
76. 2:44distraction
77. 2:46um but I mean if you look at this race
78. 2:48and you look at the turnout I'd say
79. 2:50things are strong I mean the the the the
80. 2:52sponsorship has been strong we have four
81. 2:54American teams in the tour this summer
82. 2:55we've got great turnout with Spectators
83. 2:57here good media
84. 2:58coverage I'm optimistic I mean this is
85. 3:01uh this is something we have to deal
86. 3:03with but like I said in the very very
87. 3:05beginning I would tell you I'm surprised
88. 3:07but I'm not did you ever contact him
89. 3:09after he sent you initial emails like
90. 3:11you said when they start they start no
91. 3:14they started a couple years ago and I
92. 3:15wrote that was a text and originally
93. 3:17they started as text messages and I
94. 3:18wrote him back after a while and again
95. 3:21Yan can speak more to what he wanted
96. 3:24from us and from the team but I I after
97. 3:26a few of them they got to be so annoying
98. 3:28I wrote him back and said Floyd leave me
99. 3:30alone you do do what you have to do I'm
100. 3:33going to be fine don't worry about me
101. 3:36but uh but you got to stop texting me
102. 3:38and you got to stop annoying I mean you
103. 3:39got to stop harassing
104. 3:41me you say they're you're going to make
105. 3:43these emails public is that true no I'm
106. 3:44saying I think that we'll eventually
107. 3:46they'll all be public I right now
108. 3:47there's one of
109. 3:48them um but there's there's plenty
110. 3:54others thanks L thank you Lance thank
111. 3:57you