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government and armstrong's ex teammate floyd landis had sought one hundred million dollars in damages armstrong now forty six was stripped of seven tour de france titles and banned for life for doping. in tennis rafael nadal has eased through to the quarterfinals of the monte carlo masters but he won't have to face long time rival knockout novak djokovic in the last eight that's after the former world number one went out to oscar is dominant team and three grueling sets six seven six two six three. after two years struggling with an inkling elbow injury novak djokovic should the top of the screen says he's finally playing pain free and they were glimpses of the man who's won twelve grand slam titles. they say set points in the fast set which they said being one and it's high grade for djokovic lacks tournament sharpness and his opponent dominic team is no slouch from. five he got a crucial break in the deciding set djokovic she looked out classed and though the fight was that the end product often wasn't an unforced error i gave team victory on his second match point djokovic still th

government and fellow cyclist floyd landis they wanted one hundred million dollars in damages off to he admitted to cheating in the end strong agreed to pay five million to settle the case as if competing in a cycling tour as a professional writer isn't hard enough the leader of stage three at the tour of croatia always had his competition ended by careless driver nikolai brock no was forced to dodger a versing white van it must have knocked him off his game though he ended the stage last. organizers of the london marathon urging runners to reconsider dressing up in costume sunday's race is said to be the warmest on record for costas have the temperature peaking at twenty three degrees and officials are concerned about heat strike whilst top elite athletes who will set off earlier on sunday i'm worried about setting a new record time tonya one jiri will try to defend his title from a time marathon when a. three time olympic track gold medalist can any say became. what motivated me of course. i want to know until today my race you know i. record of course i don't know when and where b

government and former teammate floyd landis had been settled for five million armstrong won a record seven tour de france titles famously as a cancer survivor from one thousand nine hundred nine to two thousand and five to six of those victories he's team was sponsored by the united states postal service a branch of the federal government but in twenty twelve the american ended years of speculation by admitting to the use of performance enhancing drugs throughout his career armstrong was stripped of his tour de france titles and banned from cycling for life the lawsuit claimed armstrong had committed fraud against the government their sponsorship deal included an anti doping close the settlement averts a trial that was just starting to wait as i have since twenty third tain trying to tag responsibility for my mistakes and make amends wherever possible armstrong said in a statement i'm looking forward to devoting myself to the many great things in my life after losing all of his major sponsorships and having already paid out more than twenty million dollars in various legal settlement

the $5 million deal comes ahead of a case involving former teammates floyd landis for performance enhancingompensation after he admitted doping. global news 24 hours a day powered by over 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. mackenziem this -- i'm tom mackenzie, this is bloomberg. yvonne: time to see how the asian markets are shaping up. we are seeing a stall when it comes to commodities rally. certainly bonds in focus today. for the latest let's go to sophie. sophie: we are seeing bonds under pressure, looking steady after the retreat we saw a early in the week. asian stocks are on the back foot, sliding from a one-week high. in shock afterks the forecast given the swap -- faltering smartphone market. samsung falling as much as 2.2%. apple supplier lg down as much as 4%. this is the time to buy in, the decline and orders from apple was already expected. space, the dollar continues to climb. you want to keep this chart in your back pocket. 3% back in play. checking in on this chart. where we have a bear market back in bonds from the u.s. and u.k., germany to australia. this

it's as much as $100 million in damages and was filed by floyd landis as a whistle-blower lawsuit. >>e government piece is a big one. >> and 5 million sounds like a lot but it could have been a 100. >> i wonder what his lifetime earnings were. i know he was on top for a while. tons of endorsements. >> i want to quickly give you the after-hour movers. mainly skechers and pinnacle foods. jana partners reported a 9% staelk in the company calling the owner of dunk can heinz, and birdseye vegetable under value mattel announced a ceo change. skechers is plunging after issuing weak. >>> three companies -- >> i don't this this have as much as of an impact on the market tomorrow. "fast money" start now. >>> "fast money" starts right now. live from the nasdaq overlooking new york city times square i'm melissa lee. tonight on fast as bitcoin plunged back it's reaching a key level that got our crypto ball pounding the table he'll join us to break it down from crypto to cannabis. it weed week on "fast money. pot could be a major buzz kill for one group of stocks. vivian assert cowan will be here t

he had been sued for $100 million in damages the claims were brought by floyd landis. >> let's get aor the entire session, now back down about 40 on the dow, the nasdaq down 27 or so, and the s&p down 2.5, and the weakness in the dow, in spite of dow components, general electric which is indicated now it's really high, 14.85 to 14.88 after closing at 13.99 that's about -- what is it, 6 or 7% rise in the shares of -- >> however, that's only good for about five points. >> right, because it's a low price stock, exactly that's true. >> all right, joining us right now is jim yuriel. he is also a cnbc contributor. we're getting to the end of this week where we've heard earnings reports from a lot of companies, what would you say as we head into the weekend jim cramer has been pointing out things look great on monday, but by friday everybody's worried about what could happen on a friday is that another one of those weekends >> i don't think so. i think today is fine. we're looking at a big -- murder's row of earnings as we look at that, earnings have been great. they're probably going to co

armstrong landis brought the suit and government joined 3 years after when armstrong admitted he used steroids. six of those types with the u.s. postal service jersey, floyds, it's 5 million. spurs popovich did not coach spurs, the wife died day before. doesn't matter who coached them, kevin durant scored 26, kd left with minor injury, he said i will be fine for game 4 against warriors. pelicans got within one game of a sweep, 76ers, protecting the broken bone near his eye, back in line after ten games out, 76ers win by 20. check this out. this is the new york post today around here we get the giants and jets schedule because the nfl schedules are out. the season will open up september 6th, thursday night when the defending super bowl champions philadelphia eagles against falcons. who will clash, titans and chargers, in mÉxico city the rams will play the chiefs. after the houston astros beat the mariners, evan asked reporters who wants to ask about my dumb play, watch this. unlikely triple play, double playgrounder, you get the runner at third, back to second, for some reason steps off. they need him. they make the out and called it a dumb play and we wan