Thursday, October 18, 2012

Lance Armstrong

Lance Armstrong has been stripped of his seven Tour de France titles and banned for life.
The International Cycling Union (UCI) said it supported the US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) decision to erase the rider's entire career after August 1998.
Earlier Armstrong stepped down as chairman of the Livestrong cancer support charity he founded.As a sponser Nike Inc dropped him too.Livestrong rubber bracelets are worldwide famous.
Lance Armstrong is an American former professional racing cyclist. He is a former world champion and has also won the Tour de France a record seven consecutive times between the years of 1999 and 2005.
He was charged with having used illicit performance enhancing drugs in June 2012 by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency and in August they announced a lifetime ban from competition as well as the stripping of all titles.
Armstrong survived testicular cancer in October 1996.

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