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Lance Armstrong, the Lance Armstrong doping case, was a major doping investigation that led to retired American road racing cyclist Lance Armstrong being stripped of his seven consecutive Tour de France titles, along with one Olympic medal, and his eventual admission to using performance-enhancing drugs.
Lance Edward Armstrong (né Gunderson; born September 18, 1971) [4] is an American former professional road racing cyclist.He achieved international fame for winning the Tour de France a record seven consecutive times from 1999 to 2005, but was stripped of his titles in 2012 after an investigation into doping allegations, called the Lance Armstrong doping case, found that Armstrong used ...
Lance Armstrong had been criticized for his disagreements with outspoken opponents of doping, such as sports journalist Paul Kimmage [7] [8] and cyclist Christophe Bassons. [9] [10] Bassons wrote a number of articles for a French newspaper during the 1999 Tour de France which made references to doping in the peloton.
The legendary cyclist lost his three bronze medals from the 2000 games following his doping scandal. After years of speculation, the U.S. federal prosecutors pursued allegations against Armstrong ...
Monday, Lance Armstrong sat down with BBC for his first TV interview since admitting to taking performance-enhancing drugs. The former pro cyclist says he wouldn't take any shortcuts if given the ...
Cycling: Lance Armstrong's doping This is an easy one. Lance Armstrong took performance enhancing drugs for years, successfully hid it (for awhile at least), and won the Tour de France seven times.
The title translates to "The Armstrong Lie". 23 August 2006. Lance Armstrong has become a symbol for doping at the Tour de France. Suspicions arose initially over his association with Italian physician Michele Ferrari and his extraordinary achievements on the road. In 1999, Armstrong failed tests for a glucocorticosteroid hormone.
In 1886, a Welsh cyclist is popularly reputed to have died after drinking a blend of cocaine, caffeine and strychnine, supposedly in the Bordeaux–Paris race. This was included in the 1997 International Olympic Committee study on the Historical Evolution of Doping Phenomenon, and listed as the presumed first death due to doping during a competition.