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Lance Armstrong cleared of doping charges (and now drops the fight)
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The French Lose Again. AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) - Independent Dutch investigators cleared Lance Armstrong of doping in the 1999 Tour de France on Wednesday, and blamed anti-doping authorities for misconduct in dealing with the American cyclist. A 132-page report recommended convening a tribunal to discuss possible legal and ethical violations by the World Anti-Doping Agency and to consider "appropriate sanctions to remedy the violations." The French sports daily L'Equipe reported in August that six of Armstrong's urine samples from 1999, when he won the first of his record seven-straight Tour titles, came back positive for the endurance-boosting hormone EPO when they were retested in 2004. Armstrong has repeatedly denied using banned substances. The International Cycling Union appointed Dutch lawyer Emile Vrijman last October to investigate the handling of urine tests from the 1999 Tour by the French national anti-doping laboratory, known by its French acronym LNDD. Vrijman said Wednesday his report "exonerates Lance Armstrong completely with respect to alleged use of doping in the 1999 Tour de France." The report also said the UCI had not damaged Armstrong by releasing doping control forms to the French newspaper. The report said WADA and the LNDD may have "behaved in ways that are completely inconsistent with the rules and regulations of international anti-doping control testing," and may also have been against the law. Vrijman, who headed the Dutch anti-doping agency for 10 years and later defended athletes accused of doping, worked on the report with Adriaan van der Veen, a scientist with the Dutch Metrology Laboratory. EPO, or erythropoietin, is a synthetic hormone that boosts the oxygen-carrying capacity of the blood. Testing for EPO only began in 2001. |
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Nobody does. Once Lance got done hammering down the frenchies America went back to not knowing anything about it.
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Tejay van Garderen might end up being Lance 2.0
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Deadspin has a decent synopsis of it up now. The Inner Ring posted a very good article on it earlier today.
Obviously no one knows exactly what the evidence USADA claims they have is. A lot of what is thought to be the evidence is outlined in both those articles (they weren't technically failed tests, but they are samples consistent with doping). All of it will come out eventually as most of (if not all, I'm not sure, haven't been following EVERYONE involved in the conspiracy accusation) the rest implicated have already agreed to arbitration. Obviously none of this is enough to make a judgement at this point. The rejection of arbitration, especially after a Texas judge ruled against him on it, throws fuel on the circumstantial/heresy fire. IMO, his biggest mistake in general was the association with Michele Ferrari... Anyway, things will get much clearer once the other arbitration hearings start. Especially if those "10 plus" witnesses turn out to be who they're rumored to be.
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There are a few young US riders who are showing promise.
I've never been a Lance fan, but this is one thing I'm grateful to him for.
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It's rumored that he's among the witnesses in the USADA case.
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Yeah, I think he could have pulled it off.
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I love rumors. Vaughters was never Lance's teammate, right?
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98-99 on US Postal.
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Alright then. Thanks for the heads-up. I'm rooting for van Garderen to ruffle the panties of the Frogs one day.
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Most likely.
Others thought to include, George Hincapie Levi Leipheimer Christian Vande Velde David Zabriskie Floyd Landis Tyler Hamilton Last edited by Graystoke; 08-24-2012 at 12:37 PM.. Reason: left out Landis and Hamilton |
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