ACA Segment: Drugs in the Tour de France

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a rival or foe’. I did not view it that way. I viewed it as a level playing field because all my rivals were doing it too”. After the section of the interview where Armstrong defines cheating to justify his drug usage, the volume on the interview will fade and be replaced by a voice over proclaiming "Performance Enhancing Substances are poisoning the heart of cycling and the mind of its athletes" whilst the video of the interview continues to play. This reiterates the bias in a shorter and blunter way.

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Following the Lance Armstrong interview, statistics showing how many high level cyclists have or are using Performance Enhancing Substances will begin to show using animated graphs. These statistics are that between 1999 and 2005, only 1 of 21 podium finishers was able to succeed without the use of Performance Enhancing Substances. Similarly, 36 of 45 podium finishers from the years spanning 1996 to 2010 were positively identified as Performance Enhancing ...

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in this situation. This is a technique called mobilising which we are using to inspire the audience to want to stop the use of Performance Enhancing Substances so the prosecution of a cycling icon never has to happen again.

It will then switch to a psychologist who will talk about the chain reaction effect that is now being seen in lower levels of cycling where the athletes are being sucked into using Performance Enhancing Substances. Further graphs will be used to show the rapidly increasing Substance usage levels. The data used will include that between the years 2003 and 2008, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) found that the amount of positive samples from professional cyclists ...

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