Feds Drop Lance Armstrong Doping Investigation After 2 Years
Lance Armstrong is in the clear after doping investigations have been dropped. (Credit: EPA)
“I am gratified to learn that the US Attorney’s Office is closing its investigation,” Lance Armstrong said in an official statement after the decision to drop the doping case was announced by US Attorney Andre Birotte Jr. “It is the right decision and I commend them for reaching it. I look forward to continuing my life as a father, a competitor, and an advocate in the fight against cancer without this distraction.”
Andre Birotte Jr. announced in a press release that his office “is closing an investigation into allegations of federal criminal conduct by members and associates of a professional bicycle racing team owned in part by Lance Armstrong.” Howver, the reason for abandoning the case was not revealed leading many to ask why.
Testimony in the two-year doping investigation included allegations from some of Armstrong’s former teammates. Floyd Landis claims Armstrong had a long-running doping system in place while they were teammates. Another former teammate, Tyler Hamilton, said he saw the seven-time Tour de France champion take the performance enhancing drug, a blood-booster called EPO, in the 1999 Tour and before the race in 2000 and 2001.
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