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MEDIA TRANSCRIPTS, INC. 41 WEST 83rd STREET NEW YORK, N.Y. 10024 (212) 362-1481 FOR The Rosenkranz Foundation/ DATE 1/16/08 Intelligence Squared US We should accept performance-enhancing drugs in competitive sports Moderator: Bob Costas For the motion: Radley Balko, Norman Fost, Julian Savulescu Against the motion: George Michael, Dale Murphy, Richard Pound BOB COSTAS … And now I’d like to introduce Robert Rosenkranz, who is the chairman of the Rosenkranz Foundation, and the sponsor of Intelligence Squared, who will frame tonight’s debate. Bob? [APPLAUSE] This is Bob. ROBERT ROSENKRANZ Well thank you very much. And, uh, uh, on behalf of, uh, Dana Wolfe, our executive producer and myself, uh, I’m just, uh, thrilled to welcome you. When we scheduled this event some, uh, five months ago, we had no idea it would be so timely. Just in the past month the, uh, Mitchell Report was released, naming some eighty eight Major League Baseball players alleged to have used steroids and, uh, uh, other drugs. Roger Clemens’ denials have been heard in 60 Minutes and were front page news in Sunday’s New York Times . Uh, record breaking sprinter Marion Jones was sentenced to six weeks in prison-, or six months, I Media Transcripts, Inc. PROGRAM The Rosenkranz Foundation - Intelligence Squared US Debate “Performance Enhancing Drugs in Competitive Sports” Page 2. should say, in prison, for lying to a federal grand jury about steroid use. Uh, Congressional hearings, uh, on steroid use and the Mitchell Report actually started today in Washington. Uh, closer to home, just a few days ago, Ben Johnson dropped out as our panelist on his counsel’s insistence, because of Johnson’s involvement in a le-, a related legal case that was just noticed for trial.
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