Lance Armstrong Stripped of Tour de France Titles – Banned From Sport For Life
Posted by Jim Hoft on Friday, August 24, 2012, 6:52 AM
Lance Armstrong to lose all 7 Tour de France titles and face lifetime ban from cycling after announcing he won’t fight doping charges.
The AP reported:
Never one to back away from a fight, Lance Armstrong is finally giving in and the cost of quitting is steep: His seven Tour de France titles could be gone as soon as Friday.
The superstar cyclist, whose stirring victories after his comeback from cancer helped him transcend sports, chose not to pursue arbitration in the drug case brought against him by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency. That was his last option in his bitter fight with USADA and his decision set the stage for the titles to be stripped and his name to be all but wiped from the record books of the sport he once ruled.
Travis Tygart, USADA’s chief executive, left no doubt that was the next step. He said Armstrong would lose the titles as soon as Friday and be hit with a lifetime ban, even though he is retired and turning 41 next month.
Armstrong released a statement following his decision not to pursue arbitration in a drug case brought against him by the US Anti-Doping Agency.
FOX Sports reported:
Lance Armstrong, beaten down by years of innuendo and a couple of months under the specter of official doping charges, surrendered Thursday night.
“At every turn, USADA [the US Anti-Doping Agency] has played the role of a bully, threatening everyone in its way and challenging the good faith of anyone who questions its motives or its methods, all at U.S. taxpayers’ expense,” Armstrong said in a statement sent to FOXSports.com.
“For the last two months, USADA has endlessly repeated the mantra that there should be a single set of rules, applicable to all, but they have arrogantly refused to practice what they preach.”
Seem strange that a man who beat back testicular cancer before winning seven Tour de France titles could be so easily detoured? Sure does.
Armstrong still denies he used testosterone, endurance-boosting EPO and/or any other banned methods to win any of his titles, but his options to clear his name dwindled after a lawsuit against the USADA was dismissed by a federal judge earlier this week.
The next step would have been a hearing in front of an arbitration panel, one that he decided ultimately not to take. It’s just prestige at this point, anyway, in a matter on which much of the public has already chosen sides.
“Today I turn the page. I will no longer address this issue, regardless of the circumstances,” continued Armstrong, who was subject to a two-year federal investigation before prosecutors dropped the case earlier this year.
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John Cooper commented:
Sounds like Lance is going Galt.
LL commented:
I heard some media types saying that Armstrong accepted his own guilt. That’s not what he said. He simply said (my paraphrase), I’m tired of you people and I’m going away. Leave me alone now.
Kipling (IF)
“If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ‘em up with worn-out tools:”…
jony101 commented:
he could always take a lie detector test if he was truly innocent. Roll the dice so to speak. I watch too much maury povich,, the lie detector never lies on the maury povich show, they always find who the baby father is in the end….
Barry bonds = steroids
jose conseco = steroids
sammy sosa = steroids
tiger woods = steroids?
michael phelps = bong
all sports heros need a little extra help….
southernsue commented:
now we all safe, they got lance!
now maybe these people can figure out how to end unemployment, stop countries from going broke and stop world hunger!
stupid, just like that rogers, baseball player witch hunt!
oh yes that’s right, these are rich white guys, oh never mind, erice holder where are you!
CapitalG commented:
Ban him from the RNC! Burn the witch!
CapitalG commented:
Haney Badger Lance is dead! Long live the Honey Badger!
juandos commented:
jony101 say: “he could always take a lie detector test if he was truly innocent“…
Idiot!
nofreelunch commented:
Government run amok.
Lord Sandwich commented:
USADA has np authority over The Tour.
BTW the WADA CEO is an ex politician whose daughter was a drug addict who killed herself druggedly driving She was lucky not to take out others.
So now he goes after people on bicycles who might be drugged.
mg4us commented:
Jim, with all due respect, Lance being stripped is media trash (who cares) and a distraction at a time when real issues like China, Middle East, Economy and Jobs are being ignored.
Heard the major networks limiting Republican Convention coverage so they don’t interrupt Hollywood trash or Obama, Biden and Angry Big Mama Moochelle on Letterman.
We need Gateway Pundit to help get the main stories the MSM refuse to cover.
Thanks.
Robodog7 commented:
Lance Armstrong represents American Exceptionalism and that isn’t allowed under the current regime. He won race after race, got cancer, beat that, and continued to win races. God Bless Lance Armstrong and God Bless America.
Mainely Steve commented:
He’s passed over 500 drug tests. Their just pissed that some effeminate Frenchman didn’t win!
ClinkinKY commented:
Barack Obama Tied To Doping
Lance Armstrong to be stripped of titles due to doping.
Lance Armstrong used to date Sheryl Crow.
Sheryl Crow huge Obama supporter. (As well as the one square of toilet paper plan).
Hey, I’m just mimicking the same line of thought as the MSM.
Tom63010 commented:
This just in GOP blames Todd Akin!
NeoKong commented:
You see what happens when jealous and angry people have some control over your life…?
Frito commented:
I believe it was a Men’s Journal article I read, where Lance said he would fight no more… After the last court case against him fell apart due to lack of evidence, he was done. No one had ever been able to prove anything. Case closed… He has the integrity to do what he said he would do… fight no more. Case closed. Harry Reid is probably proud of Usada… I heard from someone that Lance Armstrong was using drugs, no one’s ever proved it, it’s up to Lance to prove he didn’t use them. Buffoons.
George commented:
Armstrong’s case is so different from all the other cheaters that the anti-doping agencies should cut him some slack. Who is the new winner. Are you sure he didn’t cheat. Who would believe the agency now?
xiphos commented:
Let’s see, you’re in a sport where the athletes are tested darn near daily and you pass all tests, but because ten or more people ‘KNOW’ you’ve take performance enhancing drugs, your subject to more scrutiny. Sorry, doesn’t wash.
Armstrong, still a 7 time winner!
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