Lance Armstrong | Coming Clean | 4
American Scandal
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4.5 • 19.6K Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2021
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Floyd Landis goes public about performance-enhancing drugs. Lance Armstrong struggles to contain the fallout, as the truth comes out.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Prime members, you can listen to American Scandal add-free on Amazon Music, download the app today. |
| 0:19.0 | It's April 20, 2010 in Marina Del Rey, California. |
| 0:23.0 | Travis Tiger steps into a meeting room at a Marriott Hotel. |
| 0:27.0 | He has a view of the Pacific Ocean and the room is empty and silent. |
| 0:31.0 | For Tiger, that's a good thing because he needs a moment to collect his thoughts. |
| 0:35.0 | He's about to interview a high-profile athlete and it could become volatile. |
| 0:40.0 | Tiger takes a seat and reviews the questions he's planning to ask. |
| 0:43.0 | They're about doping and professional cycling and Tiger knows that what he learns today could change the future of the sport. |
| 0:50.0 | Tiger is the head of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency. |
| 0:54.0 | The organization is an independent non-profit and it oversees drug testing for Olympic athletes. |
| 1:00.0 | Their mission, among others, is to create a world where athletes can compete fairly, where they don't feel pressured to use performance enhancing drugs. |
| 1:08.0 | And it's that mission that makes today's meeting so crucial. |
| 1:11.0 | Any minute, Floyd Landis is supposed to arrive. |
| 1:14.0 | Landis is a former winner of the Tour de France, but his reputation was tarnished after test results showed he'd been doping. |
| 1:21.0 | Now it appears that Landis is ready to come clean. |
| 1:24.0 | He may also be willing to name names and speak out about the corruption that's rampant in cycling. |
| 1:30.0 | The door to the conference room opens and for a second Tiger is confused. |
| 1:37.0 | The man who's standing in the doorway has a sagging stomach, his eyes are puffy and bloodshot. |
| 1:43.0 | Tiger can't believe this is Floyd Landis, an athlete who won the Tour de France just four years ago. |
| 1:50.0 | It looks like a mess. |
| 1:52.0 | But when he speaks, there's no mistaking it. |
| 1:55.0 | This broken man is Floyd Landis. |
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