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Joining me now is the 2012 olympic gold medal winner in the high jump, eric canard. he originally lost the gold to a russian athlete who then later tested positive for steroids. first off, eric, congratulations on your own sort of personal gain there, although i do know you're awaiting your gold medal. i just wonder what you think about this excuse of her legal team that her medication got mixed up with her grandfather's. >> i mean, i think mixups happen, but i don't think it's just coincidence that the mixup of medication is a medicine that would directly affect her performance. it would actu...

Participation in the games. i think it is extremely politically motivated and financially motivated. so, things are black and white, but the gray area is finance as it pertains to the olympics. and i don't think that they can go on maybe without russia's, i guess, money so to speak. >> eric, can you tell -- what was it like for you to learn that you had been competing against someone who was using a performance-enhancing drug? >> it wasn't something that i learned, you know, eight or ten years later. it was something that was kind of known to me during my participation. as an athlete f you fee...