Lance Armstrong
Latest Stories
AP_10070109671
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.
armstrong_lawsuit_cycling_16521.jpg
FILE - In this July 24, 2004, file pool photo, overall leader Lance Armstrong, right, of Austin, Texas, follows compatriot and teammate Floyd Landis, left, in the ascent of the La Croix Fry pass during the 17th stage of the Tour de France cycling race between Bourg-d'Oisans and Le Grand Bornand, French Alps. Armstrong’s $100 million civil fraud trial is months away, yet his fight with the government and former teammate-turned-rival Floyd Landis is heating up. Landis, who tipped investigators to Armstrong’s cheating back in 2010, wants to prevent Armstrong from telling jurors about his own doping history and motivation to file a lawsuit that could put more than $20 million in his pocket. (Bernard Papon/L'Equipe via AP Pool, File)
armstrong_lawsuit_94558.jpg
FILE - This April 1, 2012 file photo shows Lance Armstrong during a news conference in Galveston, Texas. A federal judge ruled Monday, Feb. 13, 2017 that the government's $100 million lawsuit against Lance Armstrong can proceed. The decision from U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper in Washington sets the nearly 7-year-old case on course for jury trial. The lawsuit was filed in 2010 by Armstrong's former U.S. Postal Service teammate Floyd Landis, who could collect up to 25 percent. (AP Photo/Houston Chronicle, Michael Paulsen, File ) MANDATORY CREDIT
5eeaea3493ea50076e0f6a7067002b46.jpg
In this Aug. 29, 2012 file photo, Lance Armstrong speaks to delegates at the World Cancer Congress in Montreal. A three-man arbitration panel has ordered Armstrong and Tailwind Sports to pay $10 million in a fraud dispute with SCA Promotions, the promotions company announced Monday, Feb. 16, 2015. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Graham Hughes, File)
AP36749836645.jpg
FILE - In this July 24, 2005 file photo, overall leader Lance Armstrong signals seven for his seventh straight win in the Tour de France cycling race, as he rides during the 21st and final stage of the race between Corbeil-Essonnes, south of Paris, and the French capital. Armstrong has been stripped of his award in the Legion of Honor, the best-known recognition in France. Armstrong was given the rank of "Chevalier" _ or Knight _ in the "Legion d'Honneur" in 2005, the last year of his seven consecutive Tour de France victories. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)
b746a64cbf421612540f6a7067006e2d.jpg
FILE - In this Monday, Jan. 14, 2013, file photo provided by Harpo Studios Inc., Lance Armstrong appears on a taping for the show "Oprah and Lance Armstrong: The Worldwide Exclusive" in Austin, Texas. Armstrong admitted that he led a doping scheme but peppered his apology with excuses rather than contrition. (AP Photo/Harpo Studios Inc.,, George Burns, File)
4550675711564910520f6a706700f8fa.jpg
FILE - In this July 18, 2005 file photo, overall leader of the Tour de France cycling race, Lance Armstrong, right, relaxes with compatriot and teammate George Hincapie outside their hotel in Pau, southwestern France. Hincapie was the "Loyal Lieutenant" who helped Armstrong to seven Tour de France titles, only to later provide the key testimony that brought his downfall. Now, Hincapie is peeling back the shroud that has long covered the dark era of doping in cycling in a book due out next month that is part memoir, part mea culpa. (AP Photo/Alessandro Trovati, File)
0e5196b111584910520f6a70670079cc.jpg
FILE - In this July 29, 2007 file photo, Lance Armstrong, seated into a car of the Discovery Channel cycling team, right, jokes with teammate George Hincapie during the 20th and last stage of the 94th Tour de France cycling race between Marcoussis, southwest of Paris, and Paris. Hincapie was the "Loyal Lieutenant" who helped Lance Armstrong to seven Tour de France titles, only to later provide the key testimony that brought his downfall. Now, Hincapie is peeling back the shroud that has long covered the dark era of doping in cycling in a book due out next month that is part memoir, part mea culpa. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena, File)
Cycling Doping Bruyneel.JPEG-01459.jpg
FILE - This is a Thursday, Dec. 4, 2008 file photo of U.S. cyclist Lance Armstrong, left, and Astana team director Johan Bruyneel. right, as they attend a news conference in Los Cristianos, on the Canary Island of Tenerife, Spain. Lance Armstrong's longtime coach Johan Bruyneel was banned for 10 years Tuesday April 22, 2014 for helping organize widespread doping by the former seven-time Tour de France winner's cycling teams. (AP Photo/Arturo Rodriguez, File)
