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| − | Nike are refusing to cut their ties with Lance Armstrong despite his role as ringleader in 'the most sophisticated, professionalised and successful doping programme sport has ever seen'.<br>Armstrong's myth as a cycling hero has been blown to pieces by evidence exposing the seven-time Tour de France winner.<br>Despite the mounting backlash against the one-time icon, Armstrong's main sponsor Nike continue to back him.<br>After the latest revelations emerged, Nike re-released the same statement first issued in August. It reads: 'We are saddened that Lance Armstrong may no longer be able to participate in certain competitions and his titles appear to be impacted.<br>Scroll down for video<br>Support: Lance Armstrong continues to wear the Nike swoosh on his gear<br>Disgraced: Armstrong's career achievements have been tarnished <br>USADA's reasoned decision Click here to read the reasoned decision from the USADA <br>'Lance has stated his innocence and has been unwavering on this position. Nike plans to continue to support Lance and the Lance Armstrong Foundation, a foundation that Lance created to serve cancer survivors.' <br><br>Nike, the world's biggest sportswear brand, have long sponsored Armstrong and his Livestrong charity that has raised money to help cancer survivors and research. Since 2004, Nike has helped Livestrong raise over $100million as well as creating the famous yellow wristbands that have been sold 84m times.<br>And Sporting Kansas City's stadium will continue to carry the name of Lance Armstrong's cancer charity Livestrong despite him being labelled as a serial drugs cheat.<br><br>The Major League Soccer team's home ground is known as Livestrong Sporting Park and the club's chief executive Robb Heineman, speaking at the Leaders in Football conference in London, refuted any suggestion that the name would change.<br><br>'The reason we did the partnership was for everyone affected by cancer and the 80 million members of Livestrong worldwide,' Heineman said.<br><br>'That is how we think of the relationship with the brand. The Lance information is less relevant around our partnership. It is really about the 28 million cancer survivors worldwide and what we can do to support them.<br><br>'It is more around the mission with that brand and the relationship we have with the brand. It truly is about helping those afflicted with cancer and the lifestyle they live with every day.'<br><br>Trek Bicycle Corp also sponsor Arrmstrong and the US company confirmed it is monitoring developments. Trek also sells Livestrong branded bikes.<br><br>Lying again: Armstrong has a medical test before the 2002 Tour<br>THE JOURNALISTS WHO REFUSED TO LET ARMSTRONG ESCAPETwo journalists have campaigned for a decade to expose Armstrong as a drugs cheat. Sunday Times sportswriter David Walsh led the way, with the co-author of his book, L.A. Confidentiel, Pierre Ballester, as well as the former Tour de France rider and journalist Paul Kimmage.<br>Walsh discovered Armstrong was working with Dr Michele Ferrari, an Italian coach who was suspected of administering EPO. <br>Walsh tweeted: 'In the war on doping, this is a seminal moment. An untouchable is about to be exposed, one who believed he was protected by his own sport.' <br>Kimmage, the author of Rough Ride, about his own experiences with drugs as a professional cyclist in the 1980s, confronted Armstrong at his comeback in 2009.<br>In a heated exchange between the two, Kimmage, who has also written for the Daily Mail, repeated his earlier claim that Armstrong represented 'the cancer of doping'.<br>More recently, cycling's world governing body the UCI announced that they are suing Kimmage for his claims that they are 'corrupt'. Supporters of Kimmage have raised more than $50,000 to help him. <br>On Wednesday, the US Anti-Doping Agency released a 200-page report revealing in minute detail how Armstrong:<br><br>Surrounded himself with drug runners and doping doctors<br><br>Bullied team-mates into using his methods<br><br>Intimidated witnesses<br><br>Repeatedly lied to investigators<br><br>Pulled out of a race to avoid a test.<br>No fewer than 11 team-mates testified against him, leaving USADA with 'no doubt that Mr Armstrong's career (from 1998-2005) was fuelled from start to finish by doping'.<br>The report says: 'Armstrong and his handlers engaged in a massive and long-running scheme to use drugs, cover their tracks, intimidate witnesses, tarnish reputations, lie to hearing panels and the press and do whatever was necessary to conceal the truth.'<br>It adds that his goal to win the Tour de France 'led him to depend on EPO, testosterone and blood transfusions but also, more ruthlessly, to expect and require that his team-mates would likewise use drugs to support his goals'.<br>The dossier, described as 'jaw-dropping' by British Cycling performance director David Brailsford, was delivered to the headquarters of cycling's world governing body, the UCI. It is based on the sworn testimony of 26 people, including 15 cyclists who were involved in, or had knowledge of, the doping conspiracy. It also uses scientific evidence and bank records.<br>But the report has also been described as 'one-sided hatchet job,' the cyclist's lawyer have said. <br><br>'We have seen the press release from USADA touting the upcoming release today of its "reasoned decision,"' Armstrong lawyer Sean Breen said.<br><br>'(The) statement confirms the alleged "reasoned decision" from USADA will be a one-sided hatchet job - a taxpayer-funded tabloid piece rehashing old, disproved, unreliable allegations based largely on axe-grinders, serial perjurers, coerced testimony, sweetheart deals and threat-induced stories,' <br><br>Breen also said the agency was 'ignoring the 500-600 tests Lance Armstrong passed, ignoring all exculpatory evidence, and trying to justify the millions of dollars USADA has spent pursuing one, single athlete for years.'<br><br>He added: 'USADA has continued its government-funded witch hunt of only Mr Armstrong, a retired cyclist, in violation of its own rules and due process, in spite of USADA�s lack of jurisdiction, in blatant violation of the statute of limitations.'<br>Armstrong led the US Postal team from 1998, when he launched a comeback after recovering from cancer, to 2005, when he retired after winning a record seventh Tour. Travis Tygart, the head of USADA, said that during this period 'Armstrong acted as a ringleader and intimidated people who spoke out about doping'.<br>It amounted, said Tygart, to a 'doping conspiracy professionally designed to groom and pressure athletes to use dangerous drugs, to evade detection, to ensure its secrecy and ultimately gain an unfair advantage.<br>Shamed: Lance Armstrong was stripped of his Tour de France titles<br>'The evidence shows beyond any doubt that the US Postal Service pro cycling team ran the most sophisticated, professionalised and successful doping programme that sport has ever seen.'<br>The report also alleges that Armstrong paid more than $1million (�625,000) to a Swiss bank account controlled by Dr Michele Ferrari, an Italian coach who has consistently been linked to doping and who stands accused by USADA of administering banned products<br> | + | Nike are refusing to cut their ties with Lance Armstrong despite his role as ringleader in 'the most sophisticated, professionalised and successful doping programme sport has ever seen'.<br>Armstrong's myth as a cycling hero has been blown to pieces by evidence exposing the seven-time Tour de France winner.<br>Despite the mounting backlash against the one-time icon, Armstrong's main sponsor Nike continue to back him.<br>After the latest revelations emerged, Nike re-released the same statement first issued in August. It reads: 'We are saddened that Lance Armstrong may no longer be able to participate in certain competitions and his titles appear to be impacted.<br>Scroll down for video<br>Support: Lance Armstrong continues to wear the Nike swoosh on his gear<br>Disgraced: Armstrong's career achievements have been tarnished <br>USADA's reasoned decision Click here to read the reasoned decision from the USADA <br>'Lance has stated his innocence and has been unwavering on this position. Nike plans to continue to support Lance and the Lance Armstrong Foundation, a foundation that Lance created to serve cancer survivors.' <br><br> |
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| + | Nike, the world's biggest sportswear brand, have long sponsored Armstrong and his Livestrong charity that has raised money to help cancer survivors and research. Since 2004, Nike has helped Livestrong raise over $100million as well as creating the famous yellow wristbands that have been sold 84m times.<br>And Sporting Kansas City's stadium will continue to carry the name of Lance Armstrong's cancer charity Livestrong despite him being labelled as a serial drugs cheat.<br><br>The Major League Soccer team's home ground is known as Livestrong Sporting Park and the club's chief executive Robb Heineman, speaking at the Leaders in Football conference in London, refuted any suggestion that the name would change.<br><br>'The reason we did the partnership was for everyone affected by cancer and the 80 million members of Livestrong worldwide,' Heineman said.<br><br>'That is how we think of the relationship with the brand. The Lance information is less relevant around our partnership. It is really about the 28 million cancer survivors worldwide and what we can do to support them.<br><br>'It is more around the mission with that brand and the relationship we have with the brand. It truly is about helping those afflicted with cancer and the lifestyle they live with every day.'<br><br>Trek Bicycle Corp also sponsor Arrmstrong and the US company confirmed it is monitoring developments. Trek also sells Livestrong branded bikes.<br><br>Lying again: Armstrong has a medical test before the 2002 Tour<br>THE JOURNALISTS WHO REFUSED TO LET ARMSTRONG ESCAPETwo journalists have campaigned for a decade to expose Armstrong as a drugs cheat. Sunday Times sportswriter David Walsh led the way, with the co-author of his book, L.A. Confidentiel, Pierre Ballester, as well as the former Tour de France rider and journalist Paul Kimmage.<br>Walsh discovered Armstrong was working with Dr Michele Ferrari, an Italian coach who was suspected of administering EPO. <br>Walsh tweeted: 'In the war on doping, this is a seminal moment. An untouchable is about to be exposed, one who believed he was protected by his own sport.' <br>Kimmage, the author of Rough Ride, about his own experiences with drugs as a professional cyclist in the 1980s, confronted Armstrong at his comeback in 2009.<br>In a heated exchange between the two, Kimmage, who has also written for the Daily Mail, repeated his earlier claim that Armstrong represented 'the cancer of doping'.<br>More recently, cycling's world governing body the UCI announced that they are suing [http://captiveye-pointcorp.com/ghdstraighteners.htm Kimmage] for his claims that they are 'corrupt'. Supporters of Kimmage have raised more than $50,000 to help him. <br>On Wednesday, the US Anti-Doping Agency released a 200-page report revealing in minute detail how Armstrong:<br><br>Surrounded himself with drug runners and doping doctors<br><br>Bullied team-mates into using his methods<br><br>Intimidated witnesses<br><br>Repeatedly lied to investigators<br><br>Pulled out of a race to avoid a test.<br>No fewer than 11 team-mates testified against him, leaving USADA with 'no doubt that Mr Armstrong's career (from 1998-2005) was fuelled from start to finish by doping'.<br>The report says: 'Armstrong and his handlers engaged in a massive and long-running scheme to use drugs, cover their tracks, intimidate witnesses, tarnish reputations, lie to hearing panels and the press and do whatever was necessary to conceal the truth.'<br>It adds that his goal to win the Tour de France 'led him to depend on EPO, testosterone and blood transfusions but also, more ruthlessly, to expect and require that his team-mates would likewise use drugs to support his goals'.<br>The dossier, described as 'jaw-dropping' by British Cycling performance director David Brailsford, was delivered to the headquarters of cycling's world governing body, the UCI. It is based on the sworn testimony of 26 people, including 15 cyclists who were involved in, or had knowledge of, the doping conspiracy. It also uses scientific evidence and bank records.<br>But the report has also been described as 'one-sided hatchet job,' the cyclist's lawyer have said. <br><br>'We have seen the press release from USADA touting the upcoming release today of its "reasoned decision,"' Armstrong lawyer Sean Breen said.<br><br>'(The) statement confirms the alleged "reasoned decision" from USADA will be a one-sided hatchet job - a taxpayer-funded tabloid piece rehashing old, disproved, unreliable allegations based largely on axe-grinders, serial perjurers, coerced testimony, sweetheart deals and threat-induced stories,' <br><br>Breen also said the agency was 'ignoring the 500-600 tests Lance Armstrong passed, ignoring all exculpatory evidence, and trying to justify the millions of dollars USADA has spent pursuing one, single athlete for years.'<br><br>He added: 'USADA has continued its government-funded witch hunt of only Mr Armstrong, a retired cyclist, in violation of its own rules and due process, in spite of USADA�s lack of jurisdiction, in blatant violation of the statute of limitations.'<br>Armstrong led the US Postal team from 1998, when he launched a comeback after recovering from cancer, to 2005, when he retired after winning a record seventh Tour. Travis Tygart, the head of USADA, said that during this period 'Armstrong acted as a ringleader and intimidated people who spoke out about doping'.<br>It amounted, said Tygart, to a 'doping conspiracy professionally designed to groom and pressure athletes to use dangerous drugs, to evade detection, to ensure its secrecy and ultimately gain an unfair advantage.<br>Shamed: Lance Armstrong was stripped of his Tour de France titles<br>'The evidence shows beyond any doubt that the US Postal Service pro cycling team ran the most sophisticated, professionalised and successful doping programme that sport has ever seen.'<br>The report also alleges that Armstrong paid more than $1million (�625,000) to a Swiss bank account controlled by Dr Michele Ferrari, an Italian coach who has consistently been linked to doping and who stands accused by USADA of administering banned products<br> | ||
USADA spent five months building a case against Armstrong, his former team director and three doctors connected to his former team, including Ferrari<br> | USADA spent five months building a case against Armstrong, his former team director and three doctors connected to his former team, including Ferrari<br> | ||
Five individuals connected to the team - the former director, Johan Bruyneel, Ferrari, two other doctors and Armstrong - were charged with doping offences in June and given until August 24 to respond. Armstrong opted not to contest the charges, instead releasing a statement that accused USADA of a 'witch-hunt'<br> | Five individuals connected to the team - the former director, Johan Bruyneel, Ferrari, two other doctors and Armstrong - were charged with doping offences in June and given until August 24 to respond. Armstrong opted not to contest the charges, instead releasing a statement that accused USADA of a 'witch-hunt'<br> | ||
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'We don't ever want to go back to the kind of state the system was in. Let's take it to a better plac<br><br> | 'We don't ever want to go back to the kind of state the system was in. Let's take it to a better plac<br><br> | ||
| − | FULL STATEMENT FROM USADA Today, we are sending the 'Reasoned Decision' in the Lance Armstrong case and supporting information to the Union Cycliste International (UCI), the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), and the World Triathlon Corporation (WTC). The evidence shows beyond any doubt that the US Postal Service Pro Cycling Team ran the most sophisticated, professionalized and successful doping programme that sport has ever se<br>. | + | FULL STATEMENT FROM USADA Today, we are sending the 'Reasoned Decision' in the Lance Armstrong case and supporting information to the Union Cycliste [http://Captiveye-Pointcorp.com/ghdstraighteners.htm International] (UCI), the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), and the World Triathlon Corporation (WTC). The evidence shows beyond any doubt that the US Postal Service Pro Cycling Team ran the most sophisticated, professionalized and successful doping programme that sport has ever se<br>. |
The evidence of the US Postal Service Pro Cycling Team-run scheme is overwhelming and is in excess of 1,000 pages, and includes sworn testimony from 26 people, including 15 riders with knowledge of the US Postal Service Team (USPS Team) and its participants' doping activitie<br> | The evidence of the US Postal Service Pro Cycling Team-run scheme is overwhelming and is in excess of 1,000 pages, and includes sworn testimony from 26 people, including 15 riders with knowledge of the US Postal Service Team (USPS Team) and its participants' doping activitie<br> | ||
The evidence also includes direct documentary evidence including financial payments, emails, scientific data and laboratory test results that further prove the use, possession and distribution of performance enhancing drugs by Lance Armstrong and confirm the disappointing truth about the deceptive activities of the USPS Team, a team that received tens of millions of American taxpayer dollars in fundi<br>. | The evidence also includes direct documentary evidence including financial payments, emails, scientific data and laboratory test results that further prove the use, possession and distribution of performance enhancing drugs by Lance Armstrong and confirm the disappointing truth about the deceptive activities of the USPS Team, a team that received tens of millions of American taxpayer dollars in fundi<br>. | ||
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Lance Armstrong was given the same opportunity to come forward and be part of the solution. He rejected <br>. | Lance Armstrong was given the same opportunity to come forward and be part of the solution. He rejected <br>. | ||
Instead he exercised his legal right not to contest the evidence and knowingly accepted the imposition of a ban from recognised competition for life and disqualification of his competitive results from 1998 forwar<br> | Instead he exercised his legal right not to contest the evidence and knowingly accepted the imposition of a ban from recognised competition for life and disqualification of his competitive results from 1998 forwar<br> | ||
| − | The entire | + | The entire factual and legal basis on the outcome in his case and the other six active riders' cases will be provided in the materials made available online later today. Two other members of the USPS Team, Dr Michele Ferrari and Dr Garcia del Moral, also received lifetime bans for perpetrating this doping conspira<br>. |
Three other members of the USPS Team have chosen to contest the charges and take their cases to arbitration: Johan Bruyneel, the team director; Dr Pedro Celaya, a team doctor; and Jose 'Pepe' Marti, the team trainer. These three individuals will receive a full hearing before independent judges, where they will have the opportunity to present and confront the evidence, cross-examine witnesses and testify under oath in a public proceedi<br>. | Three other members of the USPS Team have chosen to contest the charges and take their cases to arbitration: Johan Bruyneel, the team director; Dr Pedro Celaya, a team doctor; and Jose 'Pepe' Marti, the team trainer. These three individuals will receive a full hearing before independent judges, where they will have the opportunity to present and confront the evidence, cross-examine witnesses and testify under oath in a public proceedi<br>. | ||
From day one in this case, as in every potential case, the USADA board of directors and professional staff did the job we are mandated to do for clean athletes and the integrity of sport. We focused solely on finding the truth without being influenced by celebrity or non-celebrity, threats, personal attacks or political pressure because that is what clean athletes deserve and deman<br>' | From day one in this case, as in every potential case, the USADA board of directors and professional staff did the job we are mandated to do for clean athletes and the integrity of sport. We focused solely on finding the truth without being influenced by celebrity or non-celebrity, threats, personal attacks or political pressure because that is what clean athletes deserve and deman<br>' | ||
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Shamed Armstrong revealed as a bully, liar and serial doper in 'most sophisticated and successful' drugs plot in history of sp<br><br> | Shamed Armstrong revealed as a bully, liar and serial doper in 'most sophisticated and successful' drugs plot in history of sp<br><br> | ||
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