Late Thursday night, Lance Armstrong announced he will no longer fight charges of using performance enhancing drugs during his career brought by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency. He maintains he is innocent, but is weary of the 10 years he's spent battling doping allegations.
Baseball great, Roger Clemens, has been indicted for lying to Congress. What does this mean for baseball and for the player? For more background, we talk to Nathaniel Vinton, an investigative sports reporter with The New York Daily News. He also co-authored, "American Icon: The Fall of Roger Clemens and the Rise of Steroids in America's Pastime."
"Roger Clemens is one of the greatest baseball players of his generation," says Vinton. However, if you look at his career you can see that the ball player had a renaissance at age 35, which is when he started using performance enhancing drugs, according to his trainer.
American cyclist Floyd Landis, who won the Tour de France and was then stripped of the title because he tested positive for performance enhancing drugs has accused other top American cyclists of blood doping, including Lance Armstrong. In a letter to cycling officials, Landis outlines an extensive doping ring that involvd illegal drugs, testosterone and blood transfusions.
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