USADA strips 7 Tour titles from Lance Armstrong

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Lance Armstrong crosses the finish line during the 19th stage of the 2010 Tour de France cycling race, an individual time trial over 52 kilometers (32.3 miles), with a start in Bordeaux and finish in Pauillac, south western France. Armstrong said on Thursday, Aug. 23, 2012, that he is finished fighting charges from the United States Anti-Doping Agency that he used performance-enhancing drugs during his unprecedented cycling career, a decision that could put his string of seven Tour de France titles in jeopardy. (AP Photo/Laurent Rebours, File)
Lance Armstrong pauses during an interview in 2011 in Austin, Texas. Armstrong said on Thursday, Aug. 23, 2012, that he is finished fighting charges from the United States Anti-Doping Agency that he used performance-enhancing drugs during his unprecedented cycling career, a decision that could put his string of seven Tour de France titles in jeopardy. (AP Photo/Thao Nguyen, File)

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August 24, 2012

USADA strips 7 Tour titles from Lance Armstrong

By Colleen Long and Tom Hays Photo provided The Enid News and Eagle Fri Aug 24, 2012, 11:23 AM CDT

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — U.S. Anti-Doping Agency stripped Lance Armstrong’s seven Tour de France titles Friday, erasing one of the most incredible achievements in sports after deciding he had used performance-enhancing drugs to do it.

Armstrong, who retired a year ago, was also hit with a lifetime ban from cycling. An athlete who became a hero to thousands for overcoming cancer and for his foundation’s fight against the disease is now officially a drug cheat in the eyes of his nation’s doping agency.

In a news release, USADA said Armstrong’s decision not to take the charges against him to arbitration triggers the lifetime ineligibility and forfeiture of all results from Aug. 1, 1998, through the present, which would include the Tour de France titles he won from 1999 through 2005.

Armstrong has strongly denied doping and contends USADA was on a “witch hunt” without any physical evidence against him.

The organizers of the Tour de France in Paris say they will wait to see what happens before commenting on Lance Armstrong’s case.

But the International Cycling Union says it wants USADA to explain why Armstrong should lose his titles.

Amaury Sport Organization, which runs the world’s most prestigious race, said Friday that it would not comment until it had heard more from both of the bodies.

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