[DSH]

The USADA was prepared to "put up." They brought the charges, asserted they had the evidence, and were prepared to go to an adversarial hearing before a panel of independent arbitrators to put on their evidence. Armstrong is the one who declined to defend himself.

As Robert Shaw said to Paul Newman in The Sting: "You're not only a cheat. You're a gutless cheat as well."

[A Strict Constructionist]

“independent arbitrators”

There are no rules of evidence in an arbitration.

[Hot Tabasco]

asserted they had the evidence

Read the entire article, the only "evidence" they had was testimony of allegations by individuals who had an axe to grind against Armstrong and quite possibly immunity from their own personal scrutiny...........