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Lance Armstrong’s former teammate will not face doping charges
A former team-mate of shamed cyclist Lance Armstrong, Norway’s Steffen Kjaergaard, will escape sanctions despite having admitted doping, the country’s anti-doping agency announced on Monday. Kjaergaard, who competed in the 2000 and 2001 Tour de France on Armstrong’s US Postal Service team, admitted in October last year that he took…
DOJ to join suit against Armstrong over Postal Service sponsorship
The US Department of Justice decided Friday to join a doping lawsuit filed by one of Lance Armstrong’s former teammates alleging that the disgraced cycling champion defrauded government sponsors. NBC News and the Wall Street Journal reported the government will add its weight to the suit and claim that Armstrong…
Lance Armstrong will not cooperate with U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, attorney says
Lance Armstrong said Wednesday that he will not cooperate with a US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) investigation into dope cheats in cycling but would be willing to help other anti-doping inquiries. The move greatly diminishes Armstrong’s chances of having his life ban from World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA)-sanctioned sport reduced even as…
Lance Armstrong faces lawsuit over bonus money
A US insurance firm filed a lawsuit against disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong on Thursday, demanding he return $12 million in bonus money paid for his Tour de France triumphs. Texas-based SCA Promotions wants the confessed dope cheat to repay money the firm paid out after insuring his Tour victories in…
U.S. prosecutors have no plans to press charges on Lance Armstrong
US prosecutors said Tuesday they have no plans to press criminal charges against cycling cheat Lance Armstrong, despite his confession that he owes his Tour de France victories to illegal doping. US Attorney Andre Birotte, who led a federal investigation into the disgraced rider, did not definitively rule out action,…
USADA chief Tygart: Armstrong lied to Oprah
US Anti-Doping Agency chief Travis Tygart says Lance Armstrong lied in his confessional interview with Oprah Winfrey, and the shamed cyclist has until February 6 to “cooperate fully” if he wants to lessen his life ban. In an excerpt of an interview with the CBS network to air in full…
Lance Armstrong movie in the works
Lance Armstrong’s life story is headed to the silver screen, US media reported Monday on the heels of the disgraced athlete’s doping admission. Paramount and Bad Robot studios have bought the film rights to a book being written on Armstrong by Juliet Macur, a New York Times sports journalist, The…
Anti-doping chief slams Armstrong ‘PR stunt’
World Anti-Doping Agency president John Fahey on Friday branded Lance Armstrong’s doping confession a “controlled public relations” stunt that revealed nothing new. As influential South Australian Senator Nick Xenophon threatened legal action to force the state government to reveal how much it paid Armstrong to ride in the Tour Down…
Jon Stewart: Learning Armstrong was doping like finding out tooth-fairy isn’t real
On his show Tuesday night, The Daily Show host Jon Stewart lampooned the news of Lance Armstrong admitting to doping, saying it appeared painful obvious in retrospect. He compared learning that Armstrong was using performance enhancing drugs to learning that the tooth-fairy isn’t real, “you think about it and, of…
World cycling organization urges Armstrong to testify
Cycling’s world governing body on Tuesday called on Lance Armstrong to give evidence to its investigation into widespread doping, amid reports that the US rider would admit taking banned substances in an interview. The International Cycling Union (UCI) said in an emailed statement that it would not be commenting until…
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