CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: What about the Tour de France, is it affecting that -- I'm sure it's affecting that race. What do they say about that?</s>ZAIN VERJEE, CNN INTERNATIONAL ANCHOR (via telephone): Well, they feel at some point the integrity of the Tour de France, though it's been shattered for now, because of the whole Armstrong debacle that down the road they hope the image will be restored. People I talked to said, you know, it doesn't matter how much Armstrong confesses or apologizes. The damage has been done. I was at the Eiffel Tower and talked to a bunch of people, he's just human. People make mistakes so there was much more sympathy than I expected there would be from so many people here I talked to. There was one person that said that he sympathizes with Lance Armstrong and said, look, the guy's lost everything -- he's lost his fame, he's lost his money, he's lost his prestige. What more can be done to him? You know, it's over. But I think that one of the things that stood out for me for many people was saying that you know he just really was a great role model and he made the Tour de France the last seven years, and it's just unfortunate that this happened.</s>COSTELLO: I think we can all agree with that. Zain Verjee reporting live from outside of Paris this morning. Reducing gun violence will be on the agenda when Vice President Joe Biden speaks to several hundred mayors across the country. Coming up, Philadelphia's Mayor Michael Nutter.
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