A report out last week documented pages and pages of evidence that concludes Lance Armstrong was at the center of a doping ring. On Wednesday, Armstrong began to lose sponsors and announced he would resign as chairman of the very charity he founded.
Cheating in sports has dominated the news since American cyclist Lance Armstrong confessed to years of doping. His dishonesty casts a shadow over an entire sport, but as The World’s Gerry Hadden reports from Barcelona, good guys can finish first.
While the Olympics may have been the highlight of this year in sports, Lance Armstrong’s doping scandal threatens to overshadow the athletic world as we reflect on 2012. In August, Lance Armstrong announced he would no longer fight charges of using performance enhancing drugs. By October, the International Cycling Union had stripped Armstrong of his […]
The International Cycling Union (known as UCI for Union Cycliste Internationale) announced this morning that it will strip Lance Armstrong of his seven Tour de France wins. The United States Anti Doping Agency has already banned Armstrong for life and has called for Armstrong’s name to removed from the record books. The doping scandal has already […]
Bicycle spokes have been transformed into syringes and Livestrong wristbands now read Livewrong and worse in these cartoons about how the mighty Lance Armstrong has fallen. In one cartoon the now disgraced multiple Tour de France yellow jersey winner wins an Oscar for his bravura performance and in another some familiar Mafia dons consider getting […]
While some French cycling professionals welcomed the US Anti-Doping Agency’s announcement others feel that this is a sad day for cycling.
Fabrice Jouhaud of L’Equipe, France’s largest daily sports newspaper-says the news has not surprised anyone there.