Lance Armstrong: Looks like the game is up
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skipper734
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So the title of his Biography, It's not about the Bike. Is correct.
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What happens if the stripping him of all his Tour de France titles is ratified, do they have any kind of official presentation of the title/trophy etc to the fella coming in second? And do they give him any extra prize money? In all fairness many of the guys who came second to Armstrong were drug cheats too so perhaps given the endemic drug abuse and cheating in the sport they should just expunge the records from around 1998-200?
The revised TDF titles will look like this:
1999: Alex Zulle, Switzerland (His 1998 team, Festina, was ousted from the Tour that year in connection with the widespread use of the performance-enhancing drug EPO. Zulle later admitted to using the blood-booster over the four previous years. The Festina affair nearly derailed the 1998 Tour, and is widely seen as the first big doping scandal to jolt cycling.)
2000: Jan Ullrich, Germany (He was the top-name cyclist among at least 50 implicated in the "Operation Puerto" police investigation in Spain in May 2006. Ullrich was stripped of his third-place finish from the 2005 Tour and retired from racing two years later. Earlier this year, he confirmed that he had had contact with Eufemiano Fuentes, a Spanish doctor at the center of that scandal, calling it a "big mistake" -- but did not admit to doping.)
2001: Jan Ullrich, Germany
2002: Joseba Beloki, Spain (Implicated in Operation Puerto, he retired in 2007. He was reportedly was cleared by a Spanish court of any involvement in the case.)
2003: Jan Ullrich, Germany
2004: Andreas Kloden, Germany
2005: Ivan Basso, Italy (Excluded from the 2006 Tour because of his involvement in Operation Puerto. He claimed that he gave his blood to Fuentes -- the Spanish doctor at the center of that scandal -- but never used it. Later that year, Basso received a two-year doping ban; he later returned, and won his second Giro d'Italia in 2010.)
The revised TDF titles will look like this:
1999: Alex Zulle, Switzerland (His 1998 team, Festina, was ousted from the Tour that year in connection with the widespread use of the performance-enhancing drug EPO. Zulle later admitted to using the blood-booster over the four previous years. The Festina affair nearly derailed the 1998 Tour, and is widely seen as the first big doping scandal to jolt cycling.)
2000: Jan Ullrich, Germany (He was the top-name cyclist among at least 50 implicated in the "Operation Puerto" police investigation in Spain in May 2006. Ullrich was stripped of his third-place finish from the 2005 Tour and retired from racing two years later. Earlier this year, he confirmed that he had had contact with Eufemiano Fuentes, a Spanish doctor at the center of that scandal, calling it a "big mistake" -- but did not admit to doping.)
2001: Jan Ullrich, Germany
2002: Joseba Beloki, Spain (Implicated in Operation Puerto, he retired in 2007. He was reportedly was cleared by a Spanish court of any involvement in the case.)
2003: Jan Ullrich, Germany
2004: Andreas Kloden, Germany
2005: Ivan Basso, Italy (Excluded from the 2006 Tour because of his involvement in Operation Puerto. He claimed that he gave his blood to Fuentes -- the Spanish doctor at the center of that scandal -- but never used it. Later that year, Basso received a two-year doping ban; he later returned, and won his second Giro d'Italia in 2010.)