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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Lance Armstrong’s lawyers say the cyclist will talk more about drug use in the sport, just likely not to the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency that led the effort to strip him of his Tour de France titles. In a testy exchange of letters and statements revealing the gulf between the two sides, [...]
(Reuters) – The Lance Armstrong Foundation has formally dropped the name of the disgraced cyclist from its title, the organization said on Wednesday, marking the latest move by the cancer charity to distance itself following the biggest doping scandal in the sport’s history. The foundation that has been informally known for years as Livestrong – [...]
(PhatzRadio / Reuters) — Doping and deception: the yellow color of the Livestrong band will never mean the same thing again to the 80 million Lance Armstrong fans who bought it. Armstrong’s unprecedented seven consecutive Tour de France victories from 1999 to 2005 depended on lies and illegal behavior, but what is worse is that [...]
(Reuters) – Lance Armstrong’s success pushed Jan Ullrich to resume doping at the start of the last decade to give the German any chance of competing against his American rival, the 1997 Tour de France winner’s mentor said on Friday. Under Rudy Pevenage’s guidance, Ullrich won the race 15 years ago but finished second to [...]
(PhatzRadio / USA Today) — The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency has banned Lance Armstrong for life and stripped him of all seven Tour de France victories that helped make him an American hero. The agency’s action came one day after Armstrong decided not to fight the doping charges, saying “enough is enough” and refusing to recognize [...]
(Reuters) – The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency on Wednesday gave seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong 30 more days to answer charges that he used performance-enhancing drugs during his cycling career. “This extension will allow the court sufficient time to evaluate Mr. Armstrong’s amended complaint,” Tim Herman, a lawyer representing Armstrong, said in a statement. [...]
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