[laughing] i started investigating lance armstrong in 1999. i worked i worked for the sunday times in london and its not to say the rest of the world doesn't come some countries have libel laws that are like the u.s., france for example. but in uk we got what we regard as terrible libel laws, taccone and in the way to make things difficult for journalist. i started this getting lance armstrong in 1999 because of my mind i know he's a fraud. the evidence is there. i guarantee you if i brought all of you guys and ladies in this room to my computer and i said here's the evidence that existed in 1999 when lance won his first tour you would all say it's perfectly obvious he's a cheat, the evidence is there. people didn't want to see it. the people who are organizing the races were making money. his team was making money. responses were making money. he was deemed to be good for the sport because he had this cancer back story. so i started investigating andi expressed doubts and opinion pieces in the sunday times. and in my investigations i get thre

we had to prove that lance armstrong doped. how do you do that? said they witnesses heard him tell his doctors he used performance-enhancing drugs. she's a liar. -- oneted drugs collected the drugs. all they needed to do was say she was a liar, and they want. we didn't have the right to say we have done this investigation correctly. we are acting in good faith. we have been meticulous and the way we have recorded interviews and presented the facts. >> which would have been enough in the u.s. >> absolutely. three years after lance sued us in the u.k., i published a book in new york. it was far moreamaging than anything i had previously done. lance armstrong didn't dare sue because he knew he wouldn't get beyond first base with that action. in france, he tried to sue. he was immediately shot down by a judge in paris who find him -- who fined him. the kind of libel laws you have really do matter, and have terrible libel laws of the u.k. i believe you have pretty good libel laws in the u.s., and long may you have them. >> just toinish the story, you h

film maker and amateur cyclist brian fogle said he initially set out to understand how his hero, lance armstrong to get clean drug tests for years, despite his doping. >> going to do an injection. exciting. >> reporter: so fogle decided to make himself the guinea pig. see if he could pass the drug test. >> i was very interested to see if it was still possible to evade detection. >> reporter: for help with his project, he was referred to dr. gregory ro chenca. explosive revelations. >> it's worse than we thought. >> reporter: at what point did you know that your story's way bigger. >> putin appears on state television, and not only does he deny everything. he says that there was no state-sponsored doping in russia. and about 12 hours after that statement, gregory is on call to me, and he has two kgb agents living in his home protecting him, and he tells me that they're going to kill him. >> reporter: fogle says immediately bought him a flight out of moscow to the u.s. he said he brought something with him, a hard drive filled with documents, detailing russia's doping program. >> i realize that no

charlie: did you talk to lance armstrong?him 2.5 years ago, before my movie took this pivot. at the time, i showed him the same 25 minute piece that i showed dan. lance was very excited about it because it was showing that he was a needle in a haystack rather than the haystack itself. and i had always viewed lance as essentially a needle in a haystack rather than the haystack he had been put up as essentially. charlie: you wanted to say everybody does it? guest: yeah. charlie: what will this accomplish? guest: the major piece that this will show is that russia's manipulation of a system that started out with athletes internally. the ioc externally. and now, the potential of opening up our eyes to how they can impact the u.s. and other countries. charlie: how the government can use that to enhance a political strategy? guest: sure. sports is just an analogy of other parts of our lives. in and of itself, the story of sports was interesting. it is interesting. the reason this story has become such a phenomenon is because it leav

i was intrigued by the lance armstrong scandal because i looked at a guy who still to this day passed 500 anti-doping controls clean and the only way they get him is through a criminal investigation. i started looking at what was wrong with the anti-doping system that they couldn't catch the most tested athlete on plan et earth and decide id i'd embark on this investigative mission first to explore the flaws in the anti-doping system and, second, to says what do you feed to finish the move? that began another three years between that conversation and us sitting here. >> rose: and david, how did you get involved? >> dan called me and said this is a great story. this is a guy trying to show the doping system doesn't work. it's really interesting, you should watch the races, how they go. when we went to europe and saw how he did racing, what we realized is this is really interesting, but the more interesting piece is how so many people had evaded doping for so long and created this dynamic wherein bryan said let's figure out how the russians are doing it and that was super fascinating. >

tennis, cycling, for a long time it was lance armstrong, it brings back the question of doping -- butis very important for a sport to have a big star. claire: on doping, how much progress do you think has been made on repairing the reputation of athletics after the whole russia-doping scandal? >> the athletes were banned and they participated only the -- only under the tenant of teams and it was a good decision. but i don't think there were many cases or any cases of doping at this world championship in london which is a good sign. the question is now, whether they will be able to continue like this? the individual who won the 100 meter --, was copper doping -- was caught were doping. was suspended. differenceis a big and a big controversy. bulk --ately for unfortunately for athletics. claire: thank you for your time. on sunday, a goal was scored and one was set up. more than 18,000 fans attended the debut in brittany. he said he was happy with it. i am very happy about my performance on the pitch especially because it was my first game and i am happy with this championship game for t

filmmaker and amateur cyclist bryan fogle says he initially set out to understand how his hero, lance armstrong, had managed to get clean drug tests for years despite his doping. >> if lance had been able to do this and everybody else, forget about cycling. what did this mean for every sport on planet earth? >> going to do an injection. exciting. >> reporter: so fogh'll decided to make himself the guinea pig. he'd take p.e.d.s and see if he too could pass the drug test. filming every step along the way. >> i was very interested to see if it was still possible to evade detection. for help with his project he was referred to dr. grigory rodchenkov, who at the time ran russia's anti-doping lab. >> grigory agrees to help smuggle my urine into his moscow laboratory to figure out when i would test negatively. that in and of itself was pretty mind-boggling because he should not have been doing that to begin with. >> did you start your program? >> i did. >> this is my morning pill-popping routine. and then i prepare the testosterone. >> reporter: why did he agree to help you? >> i came atim as an athle

chief sports writer for the sunday times and was responsible for exposing doping by the cyclist lance armstrong is unfortunate that we have to discuss mo farah‘s swansong in the context of the continuing investigation, how much does this pollute his legacy potentially? it doesn't enhance his legacy, that he has worked with alberto salazar, a coach who has a lot of questions to answer at the very least. both adamant there has been no wrongdoing. yes, he is, but the united states anti—doping agency are still investigating alberto salazar and we have testimony from any athletes who worked with him who were unhappy about his methods. that isn't to say that mo farah dopes, but it would be much better for his credibility if he had no connection with alberto salazar. you heard craig reedie being interviewed, he talks a good game, do you think that wada is fit for purpose? it might be if it had sufficient funding. craig reedie is in his second term and i have a sense of a man who is only now getting a grip on the problem that exists. he has had a very unimpressive first term. when this russian controve

but essentially, you know, lance armstrong had evaded 500 anti-doping controls clean. em?" not "what is wrong with lance?" and in this investigative journey, i get led to grigory. and i go to grigory and i said, "hey, will you help me dope and evade positive detection and teach me how to game the system?" and he goes, "yes." >> seth: yeah. [ light laughter ] and it's interesting because this was, you know, a man who is behind the russian athletic program basically doping and avoiding being caught. and yet he comes across as in that clip, he's a very loveable character. did you hit it off with him right away? >> well, the amazing thing about this guy, as you see -- and i mean, he's loveable. he's likable. he's funny. he's garrulous and then he has this side to him, which you could never imagine. which is essentially he was the mastermind of russia's state-sponsored doping program. and he wasn't just doping all the track and field athletes. he was doping pretty much all russian athletes across all sport and this program was in place the last 40 years. and in so doing, rus

we are the lance armstrong arest network of americans -- the largest network of americans in support of the united nations in the unite 180 chapters, so get involved. thank you so much. without further ado, let me now call on thomas. who really deserves a round of applause for his tireless work. [applause] >> thank you, paula, for such a warm introduction. good afternoon, everyone. on behalf of the sustainable development committee and the rest of the una/nca chapter, i'd like to personally welcome all of you to the united states capitol to discuss such an important issue, the sustainable development goals with congressman don beyer and mr. george ingram from the brookings institution. my name is thomas liu, and i'm a proud member of the una/nca sustainable development committee and above all, the event lead for today's program. before i start, i'd like to thank my parents for encouraging and guiding me to become the person who i am today and to all the dads out here today, happy -- [inaudible] father's day. i'd also like to thank an individual for whom if i did not know, i wouldn't