If you like this sort of thing, 7-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong appeared on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” Tuesday (Sept. 20) night.
The Paceline fan website for the Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team has a recap. Armstrong touched on the “witch hunt” angle of the latest drug allegations scooped up by L'Equipe, but mostly he talked about what …
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“There are people who still think I'm nuts. I mean I have a massive feminist following. And a lot of those people are mad. They're like, 'Why would you quit everything for a man?'” …
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Is that the final statement on “Retirement, not a Retirement” from Lance Armstrong?
In a conference call with reporters on Thursday, Armstrong said he was fed up with controversy over six-year-old urine samples and allegations they contained blood boosting agents.
As quoted in CyclingNews:
“Sitting here in my chair right now… yeah, I opened up the possibility a couple of weeks ago …
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Two athletes stricken at a young age by cancer. Both battle the disease and raise money for cancer research in high profile campaigns.
One survives and one doesn't.
We know the Lance Armstrong story. The Terry Fox story doesn't have anything to do with cycling, but it does have something to do with courage and tenacity …
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(Updated 9/10/05) The International Cycling Union says it cannot judge whether Lance Armstrong used performance-enhancing drugs in 1999 because it has no evidence.
The Swiss-based federation that oversees professional cycling reported that no laboratories or anti-doping agencies have provided evidence that Armstrong used blood-doping EPO, as alleged in French newspaper L'Equipe.
The UCI said last month that it would look into the …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2005/09/09/uci-has-no-evidence-against-armstrong/
I can't decide whether or not I'd like to see Lance Armstrong make a comeback to pro cycling.
In what could be the shortest retirement in sports history, Armstrong is already talking about getting back on the bicycle. This just six weeks after the conclusion of the Tour de France, which he said absolutely would be his last race.
He …
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Lance Armstrong and rock-star girlfriend Sheryl Crow are going to pedal down the aisle together.
The Paceline confirms that Armstrong and Crow became engaged last Wednesday while vacationing in Sun Valley, Idaho, on a mountain biking vacation.
No wedding date has been set, but the Associated Press reports it could be this spring.
This would be Armstrong's second marriage. His …
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(Updated)I'm not so sure there's much use in the Union Cycliste Internationale investigating the EPO doping claims issued by L'Equipe last week.
Without naming Lance Armstrong specifically, the UCI said Monday that it's “pursuing its global assessment of the situation.”
I suppose it's comforting that cycling's governing body will study the claims, but what kind of results can it reach? The …
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Lance Armstrong has retired from professional bicycling, but he can still go on the attack.
Just like he was unwilling to sit back quietly in the peloton, the 7-time Tour de France champion has gone on the offensive to counter allegations that a blood-doping substance was found in his urine from samples taken in 1999.
“There's a setup and …
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Lance Armstrong says he's weighing the cost and time of filing a lawsuit to get to the bottom of the charges by a French newspaper that he took a banned substance in 1999.
“If you do have a trial you get to the bottom of it and you find out who sabotaged the process and you find out who leaked …
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