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Lance Armstrong part of cycling's 'most successful doping program,' USADA says
The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency says it will release Wednesday more than 1,000 pages of evidence detailing the involvement of cyclist Lance Armstrong in what the agency calls "the most sophisticated, professionalized and successful doping program that sport has ever seen."
Armstrong, who won an unprecedented seven Tour de France titles, announced in August that he would no longer fight doping charges that the USADA brought against him earlier in the year. The famed cyclist's decision prompted the USADA to ban the 40-year-old athlete from competition and strip him of his wins dating to 1998, though there were questions of whether the organization had the authority to take such action.
The USADA filed doping charges against Armstrong in June. Armstrong retired from professional cycling in February 2011, though he continued to compete in triathlon events.
The USADA, a quasi-government agency recognized as the official anti-doping agency for Olympic, Pan American and Paralympic sports in the United States, accused Armstrong of using, possessing, trafficking and giving to others performance-enhancing drugs, as well as covering up doping violations.
Armstrong's attorney blasted the accusations as "wrong" and "baseless," much like Armstrong has vehemently denied other such claims in the past.
Armstrong, when he announced in August that he wouldn't fight the charges, said there was "zero physical evidence" to support the USADA's claims, and that he was "finished with this nonsense" of fighting charges after fighting against such allegations for years.
"The only physical evidence there is the hundreds of controls I have passed with flying colors," Armstrong said in August. "I made myself available around the clock and around the world. In-competition. Out of competition. Blood. Urine. Whatever they asked for I provided. What is the point of all this testing if, in the end, USADA will not stand by it?"
On Wednesday, Armstrong's teammate George Hincape admitted he used banned substances.
"It is extremely difficult today to acknowledge that during a part of my career I used banned substances," Hincape said in a statement. "Early in my professional career, it became clear to me that, given the widespread use of performance enhancing drugs by cyclists at the top of the profession, it was not possible to compete at the highest level without them. I deeply regret that choice and sincerely apologize to my family, teammates and fans."
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Does this accusation by the The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency change your feelings about Armstrong? Share your reaction in the comments below.
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Just cant handle a white sports hero can ya ?
Plenty of black sports heroes have been brought "down"... Tiger woods not the least, Barry Bonds, Terrell Owens, Michael Vick. etc. etc. Why bring race into everything? It's just your tinted view of the world. You are racist, and in your worldview so is everyone else.
It's NOT LIVESTRONG, It's LIE STRONG.....drop the "Victory V" and the TRUTH IS STARING right back at you....Fools. How many cyclist does it take to prove Lance is a DOPER? "All of em".....wake up, read up, wise up.....Time has come to end the fairy tale....
Eye witnesses who doped along with him, tests results that have EPO (banned substance). That's enough for me.
What blood test? What DNA tests? Nothing has tested positive in all the samples he's given. If they can produce a + blood sample which is without a doubt his (DNA testing) then I'll believe. Not on the word of some other scared team member.
There has better be real proof. Not hearsay/ testimony from teammates who were cutting deals not to be banned themselves. Real proof. dna evidence, video of the procedure and armstrong performing it. analysis of blood content before, during and after the contests. If its not empirical and reasonable, it's a smear campaign.
While you may see *news* as being more narrowly defined, and perhaps even only pertaining to political events, many readers also are interested in hearing about what is happening on other subject matter. What I don't understand is why you choose to push your agenda on your personal political views in this forum when the topic clearly has nothing to do with presidential politics.
If you think some pundits at MSNBC don't criticize Democrats when appropriate, then you haven't been watching or paying attention. I suggest you watch Joe Scarborough or even Chris Mathews once in awhile. Things aren't always as rosy for Dems at MSNBC as you would think.
that's funny, right there, i don't care who you are
yeah....right
There is no proof he ever took any performance enhancing drug!!!! Because we say so is not proof, he passed every single test he was given. Get off you soap box you Hippocrates
We have a news organization that has given Obama a pass for 4 years and they can be trusted to tell this right?Yeh right.
WHAT PASS DID OBAMA GET? HE ENDED TWO WARS, HEALTHCARE FOR ALL, KILLED OUR WORST ENEMY EVER AND SUCCESSFULLY NAVIGATED THROUGH THE TERRIBLE RECESSION-SHOW SOME RESPECT YOU IDIOT!
What a rightwing nutbag, climb back under your rock.
Great point
This is total fabrication!!! Armstrong was evaluated 500 times in the past! The USADA is nothing but a bunch of political activists that hate seeing anyone win!!! Look at how corrupt all of the other US agencies are! And look at how biased the UN is! Does anyone think this is without a political slant??? It wouldn't surprise me if China was paying the USADA to drum up charges against Armstrong.... hey – Obozo has already bowed before these dictators... And you can't trust our liberal media....
Armstrong is innocent!
This isn't just about Lance..... is that to hard for you muppets to understand?
He is just the one who benefited the most from a decade of cheating and was the most famous at the end of it.
12+ riders plus Team Staff and more are being banned...... This case is much bigger than LA and even bigger than his ego.
Clueless when it comes to explain how people such as your self continue to make it in this world. I'll bet you support the conservitives plan to control out lives by telling us who we can marry. yet they continue to say they want less gov.
Pontly........ What??
I just don't want my tax money being given to cheating companies.
USPS received tens of millions of $$ of tax payers money........ your happy that your money was stolen from you by a cheating company?
And I'm clueless about what? All i'm saying is the goverement should not tell us how to run our personal lives and being involved in sports is not what I want or expect my taxes to go to. Same with personal moral issues. As far as Armstrong goes all I know is he's been accused for years but noone has produced ANY proof. I'm interested to see what "they" have.
My question is: why, in the first place, is the government involved in ANY sports related activity? Other than to issue or regulate safety issue, the government has no place in sports. I' am very courious to see what evidence the USADA has to support their claims.
You're clueless.
Good question.What has the government ever done better than the private sector?
Yeah here comes another republican thinking government is controlling sports now too. Let me explain it to you: When you represent USA you better be controlled by the government of USA to ensure that you don't do something like Lance did and disgrace your country and your flag.
Do you know what the word 'government' means? What about the word 'organization'?
USADA is an NGO, a non-Government Organization, they are not a US government agency, so this is not an example if big brother
the real DOPES they should test reside in Washington. He won the events and if you didn't dispute the outcome withing a reasonable time, like 30 days, what is done is done.
What, like fraud???
USPS received tens of millions of $$ of tax payers money........ your happy that your money was stolen from you by a cheating company?
30 days and its all good though right?
No. Its yo Momma.
It would be ironic if Lance Armstrong actually got his cancer from using performance-enhancing drugs... and people bought into his "LiveStrong" motto literally.
Yeh, that would be especially ironic considering he had cancer 3 years before he started winning the Tour de France.
Isn't one of the negative side-effects of doping, an increased chance of cancer of the berries....?
Uh....wait.....
Sorry, guess that was a little crass....
How does Bristal Palin manage to not get voted off dancing with the stars? She couldn't dance her way out of a paper bag. She should have gone home weeks ago. This shiow is getting too political!
Just what does that jerk Palin have to do with this story? And really who cares!?!?!?
Yes, everyone in the film and television loves Bristol Palin... That MUST be why she was voted off. By the way, what article are you reading, and what year is it?
Americans love to cheat!
Its not cheating unless you get caught. 😉