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UCI has to await this, then issue the formal notice. If they fail to do this, they're in non-compliance with WADA code. UCI could take USADA's ruling to CAS, but that would come at significant cost and it seems that USADA is chomping at the bit to present the case, while I really doubt UCI want the full details of the entire conspiracy case (It's important to remember Lance isn't the only one implicated here, just the highest profile; he is, however, the only one who seems to be taking his ball and going home (heh).) to see the light of day. They have enough issues with their credibility as it is.
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Armstrong is giving up because he knows that the USADA has him absolutely dead to rights now, and he's made the calculation that he'd rather travel the path of the angry martyr for the few who still believe him for some odd reason, rather than endure the public humiliation of this arbitration hearing.
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The tragic thing here is that Armstrong probably would have won most or all of those titles if everyone wasn't cheating. He was in a dirty sport and could either do what he had to do, or play it honest and sink into failure and obscurity as all the cheaters passed him by.
It would be fine to be sympathetic with his being put into an impossible situation if he'd just admit the obvious, but right now he's a liar.
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WADA has ruled that USADA had jurisdiction, Armstrong's refusal to contest USADA's findings is basically an admission (like refusing a breathalyzer on a traffic stop) and the world court is not heavily biased to get past the EPO era like the ICF is. Then of course there's the small matter that the Americans are the ones who are recommending that another American, due to overwhelming proof, be stripped of the record 7 titles.
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Then there's the long parade of witnesses, including teammates, going back to 1998. Above all of that, is the blatantly obvious fact that Armstrong could not have possibly beaten a field full of cheaters, by only a few minutes, not hours so that you'd think he's some crazy mutant species of human, during those 7 years.
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