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USADA to strip Lance Armstrong of 7 Tour titles
Associated Press ^ | August. 23, 2012 | JIM VERTUNO

Posted on 08/23/2012 8:23:23 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- 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.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cokehead0bama; lancearmstrong; maybealittleblow; usada
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1 posted on 08/23/2012 8:23:27 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
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To: Free ThinkerNY

If they have sufficient proof of his guilt, that should include coaching as well. Otherwise it’s that that big of a punishment, because he’s accrued all the meaningful benefits.


2 posted on 08/23/2012 8:26:45 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults.)
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To: Jonty30

If he never tested positive, how do they have proof?


3 posted on 08/23/2012 8:28:00 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Free ThinkerNY

So now in America a person is guilty unless he can prove his innocence? What objective body of evidence do they have? How about his several hundred blood samples, each of which has never shown as positive.


4 posted on 08/23/2012 8:28:51 PM PDT by irishtenor (Everything in moderation, however, too much whiskey is just enough... Mark Twain)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Unless the USADA operates the Tour de France, that sounds like a meaningless gesture.


5 posted on 08/23/2012 8:30:29 PM PDT by Colonel_Flagg (Conservatism is not a matter of convenience.)
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To: irishtenor

This is BS!


6 posted on 08/23/2012 8:30:54 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Travis Tygart must have some really sprained wrists after announcing this.


7 posted on 08/23/2012 8:32:12 PM PDT by mkjessup (0bama squats to pee.)
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To: dfwgator

I don’t know. Maybe they kept samples that could be later tested with more sophisticated tests.


8 posted on 08/23/2012 8:33:00 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

He should tell them he’ll give them his left nut before he gives up his trophies.


9 posted on 08/23/2012 8:33:32 PM PDT by struggle (http://killthegovernment.wordpress.com/)
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The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency

Total waste of tax payer's money.

10 posted on 08/23/2012 8:34:06 PM PDT by dragonblustar (Allah Ain't So Akbar!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

This stuff just is meaningless. Nobody will think his wins aren’t valid just because this agency “erases” them. It’s completely meaningless.


11 posted on 08/23/2012 8:34:48 PM PDT by rwfromkansas ("Carve your name on hearts, not marble." - C.H. Spurgeon)
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To: mkjessup

Good!! It is my opinion he is a liar and a big steroid freak, I hear he is an egocentric jurk. Adios . You are a disgrace to real sport sir!!


12 posted on 08/23/2012 8:35:00 PM PDT by marygonzo
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To: Free ThinkerNY

This is one of the most outrageous abuses of power that I have ever heard. I would hate to hear that even though I proved my inocence over 500 times, these quasi policing bodies, corrupt as hell by the way, could pull out a piece of “evidence” and demand I defend myself for number 501 + x.

Lance “ John Demjanjuk” Armstrong.


13 posted on 08/23/2012 8:35:47 PM PDT by Cyman
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To: struggle

Just another way to destroy American exceptionalism.


14 posted on 08/23/2012 8:35:47 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (ABO 2012)
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To: Colonel_Flagg
Unless the USADA operates the Tour de France, that sounds like a meaningless gesture.

This. Throw in a "lifetime ban" from a sport from which Armstrong has already retired. I need to go re-read Les Miserable - there is something very Javert like about this pursuit.
15 posted on 08/23/2012 8:37:22 PM PDT by rockvillem
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Good!! It is my opinion he is a liar and a big steroid freak, I hear he is an egocentric jurk. Adios . You are a disgrace to real sport sir!!

I agree, Travis Tygart is indeed a disgrace.
16 posted on 08/23/2012 8:37:43 PM PDT by mkjessup (0bama squats to pee.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

This is a surprise to no one. Especially the guys that finished behind him thinking, “No way”.


18 posted on 08/23/2012 8:44:29 PM PDT by eddie willers
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Wait... Did Armstrong vote Republican or something?


19 posted on 08/23/2012 8:47:33 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: irishtenor
USADA brought charges against Armstrong, who had the opportunity to go to an arbitration hearing before a three-person panel of arbitrators (one of whom Armstrong could select, the second USADA could select, and third who would have been chosen by agreement among the other two arbitrators). At this arbitration hearing, USADA would have put on its evidence (said to consist of as least as many as 10 witnesses (former Armstrong teammates, etc., as well as so-called "bio-passport" data derived from blood tests done on Armstrong during races, including the last Tours de France he rode, after he came out of retirement in 2009). Armstrong and/or his counsel could have cross-examined those witnesses, put on their own witnesses (including rebuttal experts, etc.)).

The panel of arbitrators would have heard the evidence and then given its verdict. If Armstrong had lost at that stage, he would have had an opportunity to appeal the adverse decision to the international Court of Arbitration for Sport.

Armstrong chose not to pursue arbitration at all. What USADA is now prepared to do is akin to what happens when one gets sued in a civil action, and one chooses not to answer the complaint. One can have a "default judgment" rendered against him.

By the way, by virtue of holding a professional license from USA Cycling, which recognizes USADA's authority to enforce anti-doping rules to which cyclists are subject in the U.S., Armstrong acquiesced in the legitimacy of the aforementioned process. That is one reason a federal district court threw out Armstrong's own lawsuit the other day, in which Armstrong had challenged USADA's jurisdiction and authority over him.

20 posted on 08/23/2012 8:48:25 PM PDT by DSH
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