Awful Announcing
This segment is a notable look at WADA's challenges and failings overall, but the discussion of specific pressure on a WADA executive to back off from his comments about banning Russian athletes is particularly significant.
"To me, it was that it worked. It wasn't just chaos and science fiction."
"I could see perpetual and future growth."
"If you would have told that kid all these years later, 19 years later, that I would return as a correspondent..."
"I was so lucky, I was so lucky."
Real Sports' Deshaun Watson piece has already been the subject of lots of talk. Excerpts viewed by AA include detailed discussions of Watson's alleged actions during massages from two of his accusers, and responses from one of Watson's attorneys.
"I believe they’ll air the accusations of the women without attempting to look behind it to see what kind of merit do they have."
"There's just an endless number of stories to tell."
"I think there is a growing anger amongst the American people at baseball. I think, you know, the temperature is rising here in Congress to do something about it."
"Revisit this in like 10 years. It's going to be young people that are achieving their goals and aspiring to do great things and there are going to be adults that are helping that happen. And I have total faith in this city."
"Yeah, these guys at Tampa Bay Bucs tried to make an agreement with me to give me $200,000 to go to the crazy house so these guys could look like they know what they're talking about."
"I grew up here; I'm trying to bring that thing I've witnessed in my travels back to these kinds of places."
"It's equally abhorrent to me to see a group of people defend it, knowing that they live in this legacy of America's past. They live in this hope of America's future. We can't be truly hopeful when those people continue to excuse or apologize for something."
