Well, the jealous ass holes won.
From Newsday: The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency said Thursday night it will strip Lance
Armstrong of his unprecedented seven Tour de France titles after he
declared he was finished fighting the drug charges that threaten his
legacy as one of the greatest cyclists of all time.
Travis Tygart, USADA's chief executive, said Armstrong would also be hit with a lifetime ban on Friday.
Still to be heard from was the sport's governing body, the International Cycling Union, which had backed Armstrong's legal challenge to USADA's authority.
Armstrong, who retired last year, declined to enter USADA's
arbitration process -- his last option -- because he said he was weary
of fighting accusations that have dogged him for years. He has
consistently pointed to the hundreds of drug tests that he has passed as
proof of his innocence during his extraordinary run of Tour titles
stretching from 1999-2005.
"There comes a point in every man's
life when he has to say, "Enough is enough." For me, that time is now,"
Armstrong said in a statement sent to The Associated Press. He called
the USADA investigation an "unconstitutional witch hunt."
"I have been dealing with claims that I
cheated and had an unfair advantage in winning my seven Tours since
1999," he said. "The toll this has taken on my family and my work for
our foundation and on me leads me to where I am today - finished with
this nonsense."
USADA reacted quickly and treated
Armstrong's decision as an admission of guilt, hanging the label of drug
cheat on an athlete who was a hero to thousands for overcoming
life-threatening testicular cancer and for his foundation's support for
cancer research. http://www.newsday.com/sports/lance-armstrong-to-be-banned-for-life-stripped-of-tour-de-france-titles-1.3924288
The United States Anti Doping Agency is just a Nazi-like agency that will convict a person on no evidence and then proceeds to make a person's life hell until they get their way.
Armstrong has passed every drug test given him and now are prosecuting him for wins that were 13 years ago.
It is one thing to go after someone who test positive for a banned drug but another when there is no evidence except hearsay evidence. Further, to keep on going after a person and trying to bankrupt him in the process shows this agency is Nazi like.
Lance Armstrong, you did the U.S. proud and it is a shame that some jealous ass holes who never had the skill you had, go after you.
Armstrong won the Tour de France race and nothing can take that away from him. And the people that finished second, guess what, you are still a loser to Lance Armstrong.
Taxpayers fund this corrupt agency, so I would call on Congress to defund them and put them out of business. This Nazi like agency led by Dr. Richard W. Cohen should not represent the United States or get money from the United States government. Get rid of them.
Cannot agree with you more! It's crazy how this group went about their business in proving Lance's guilt.
ReplyDeleteLance will always be to me a 7-time Tour de France winner and a great ambassador for the fight against cancer.
Long live Lance Armstrong!!!!!!!