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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) The Justice Department laid out its case in a lawsuit against Lance Armstrong on Tuesday, saying the cyclist violated his contract with the U.S. Postal Service and was “unjustly enriched” while cheating to win the Tour de France. The government had previously announced it would join the whistle-blower lawsuit brought by former [...]
(Reuters) – Rider Stefan Schumacher’s admission that he had used banned substances was welcomed by the German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB) and national cycling federation (BDR) on Friday. Schumacher, who failed two drug tests in 2008, said in an interview with German magazine Der Spiegel that doping was part of his training just like eating [...]
(Reuters) – Former cyclist Laurent Jalabert was seriously injured in a road accident on Monday morning, French police told Reuters. Jalabert, who won the Tour of Spain in 1995 and was world time trial champion in 1997, was on his bike when he was hit by a car travelling in the opposite direction near Montauban, [...]
In this handout photo provided by the Oprah Winfrey Network, Oprah Winfrey (R) speaks with Lance Armstrong during an interview regarding the controversy surrounding his cycling career January 14, 2013 in Austin, Texas. Oprah Winfrey?s exclusive no-holds-barred interview with Lance Armstrong, “Oprah and Lance Armstrong: The Worldwide Exclusive,” has expanded to air as a two-night [...]
Livestrong vice president Andy Miller speaks at the foundation’s annual meeting Thursday in Chicago.(Photo: Kiichiro Sato, AP) Story Highlights Andy Miller says in state of foundation address that Armstrong “misled” his cancer charity Tries to distance foundation from Armstrong. “We didn’t do it for Lance” Says Livestrong will survive despite controversy (PhatzRadio / USA Today) [...]
President Bill Clinton holds up a yellow US Postal Service jersey given to him by Lance Armstrong in the Rose Garden of the White House in 1999.(Photo: Vernon Bryant, USA TODAY Sports) Story Highlights At issue in the civil fraud suit against Lance Armstrong is not whether he cheated, but whether he defrauded the government [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department joined a lawsuit Friday against disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong that alleges the former seven-time Tour de France champion concealed his use of performance-enhancing drugs and defrauded his longtime sponsor, the U.S. Postal Service. The lawsuit alleges that riders on the postal service-sponsored team, including Armstrong, knowingly violated their postal [...]
(Reuters) – The United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) will push ahead with efforts to clean up cycling without help from Lance Armstrong after the disgraced cyclist rejected another deadline to meet anti-doping investigators by Wednesday. Armstrong’s lawyer Tim Herman said in a statement released on Wednesday that the former cyclist still had issues with USADA, [...]
(Reuters) – The International Cycling Federation (UCI) has called again for a truth and reconciliation commission to examine its troubled sport following the Lance Armstrong doping scandal. The American cyclist was stripped of his seven Tour de France titles and banned for life last year for doping. Armstrong subsequently admitted in a television interview last [...]
In this handout photo provided by the Oprah Winfrey Network, Oprah Winfrey (R) speaks with Lance Armstrong during an interview regarding the controversy surrounding his cycling career January 14, 2013 in Austin, Texas. Oprah Winfrey?s exclusive no-holds-barred interview with Lance Armstrong, “Oprah and Lance Armstrong: The Worldwide Exclusive,” has expanded to air as a two-night [...]
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