Juliet Macur
The Reformer
Changing the system from inside it, principle turned into change.
Juliet Macur is a sports reporter for the New York Times who has spent years investigating doping in sports. This interview reveals her commitment to principled change within the sports industry, as she navigates complex issues and seeks to expose wrongdoing.
“Both of my parents are from Poland, what is now Lithuania, Vilnius, they're from Vilnius, which was Vilno back then, which was part of Poland.”
“No, I mean, if there was a tip that somebody said that Pedro Martinez was using drugs, that, you know, I'd be the first person on it. And I think that the people I interview know that. I said to somebody said, do you have many friends in sports after all these years?”
“I have no idea, but there is a lot of match fixing questions in soccer. You know, there's been match fixing problems for many, many years. We haven't gotten to that level yet, and you'd be naive to think that there was never that problem in FIFA because really on every level, if you could steal money anywhere, in any level of whether it's…”
“Well, did they upset it anyway even when all this stuff about Ray Rice came out when the video came out of a, he's a former Baltimore Ravens running back was punched his Than fianc ⁇ was on video. People got upset for a while, but going back to the NFL as if nothing happened.”
The Axe Files with David Axelrod — Ep. 27 - Juliet Macur
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