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Lance Armstrong won the Tour de France a record seven consecutive times from 1999 to 2005. However, in 2012, he was banned from sanctioned Olympic sports for life as a result of long-term doping offenses. Armstrong had been the subject of doping allegations ever since winning the 1999 Tour de France. In 2012, a United States Anti-Doping Agency investigation concluded that Armstrong had used performance-enhancing drugs over the course of his career and named him as the ringleader of "the most sophisticated, professionalized and successful doping program that sport has ever seen." He received a lifetime ban from all sports that follow the World Anti-Doping Code—effectively ending his competitive career. He was also stripped of all of his achievements from August 1998 onward, including his seven Tour de France titles.
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Lance Armstrong won the Tour de France a record seven consecutive times from 1999 to 2005. However, in 2012, he was banned from sanctioned Olympic sports for life as a result of long-term doping offenses. Armstrong had been the subject of doping allegations ever since winning the 1999 Tour de France. In 2012, a United States Anti-Doping Agency investigation concluded that Armstrong had used performance-enhancing drugs over the course of his career and named him as the ringleader of "the most sophisticated, professionalized and successful doping program that sport has ever seen." He received a lifetime ban from all sports that follow the World Anti-Doping Code—effectively ending his competitive career. He was also stripped of all of his achievements from August 1998 onward, including his seven Tour de France titles.

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