VIDEO: Lance Armstrong Lashes Out Amid New Doping Bombshell
Posted on May 20, 2011 @ 01:00PM - 8 comments
By Adam S. Levy
Radar Staff Writer
"20+ year career. 500 drug controls worldwide, in and out of competition. Never a failed test. I rest my case."
That's what cycling legend Lance Armstrong had to say in a tweet late Thursday, just days before 60 Minutes airs a bombshell interview with Tyler Hamilton, a former cycling peer who said he witnessed Armstrong inject himself with a banned substance called EPO on many occasions.
The Last Ride: Lance Armstrong Says 2010 Tour de France Will Be His Last
Posted on Jun 29, 2010 @ 05:40AM - 1 comment
Lance Armstrong said that the upcoming 2010 Tour de France will be the final one of his career.
"This will be [my] final Tour de France. It's been a great ride. Looking forward to three great weeks," the cycling legend Tweeted Monday.
The 38-year-old cancer survivor won the race seven straight years from 1999-2005, and ignited a pop culture phenomenon with the yellow Livestrong bracelets that benefited his cancer charity.
Tour de France Floyd Landis Admits Doping; Accuses Lance Armstrong
Posted on May 20, 2010 @ 07:17AM - 5 comments
After years of denials, disgraced Tour de France winner Floyd Landis is finally admitting that he did in fact use performance-enhancing drugs --and a bombshell accusation, he's accusing seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong of doing the same, RadarOnline.com can report.
Landis was stripped of his crown in 2006 after testing positive for doping. Furthermore, Landis is admitting he used the drugs for the majority of his career, according to the New York Times.
Landis recently sent out several emails to cycling authorities in the U.S and in Europe, confessing to his PED use, the Times reports. One official told the Times that Landis admitted to using the performance-enhancing drugs or methods since 2002, when he got his start racing with the then-United States Postal Service team. At that time, seven-time Tour de France-winning cyclist Lance Armstrong led the cycling squad.
The Wall Street Journal first reported about the emails, which focus on the PED use by himself, Armstrong and other members of the team. Landis reportedly named these cyclists as using PEDs:
* Reigning U.S road racing national champion George Hincapie
* Three-time Tour of California winner Levi Leipheimer
* Five-time U.S. time trial champ David Zabriskie
He went on to say that doping was a generally accepted practice that, in some cases, was even encouraged by team officials, including Johan Bruyneel, the former U.S. Postal Service Team manager and leads Armstrong's current RadioShack team, the Times reports.
Landis was banned for two years from cycling following his positive test after the 2006 Tour de France.
"I want to clear my conscience," Landis, who races with the lower level OUCH-Bahati Foundation Pro Cycling team, told ESPN.com. "I don't want to be part of the problem any more."
Federal authorities have spoken with Landis in recent weeks about the information in the e-mails, according to two people briefed on the matter, the Times reports.
Lance Armstrong Takes New Baby Home from the Hospital
Posted on Jun 07, 2009 @ 02:23PM - Add a comment
Proud papa Lance Armstrong took his new son Max and girlfriend Anna Hansen home from the hospital yesterday.
Maxwell Edward Armstrong is the cyclist's first child with Hansen; has three kids with his ex-wife Kristin.
The older children all traveled to the Aspen hospital to meet their new half-brother.
Lance, 37, will be competing in the Tour de France beginning July 4.
He is already a seven-time champ of the prestigious event.
Whatever happens on the course, he already has something to celebrate.
BREAKING NEWS: Lance Armstrong’s Surgery “Went Well”
Posted on Mar 25, 2009 @ 04:36PM - Add a comment
After breaking his collarbone during a first stage race in Spain on March 23, Lance Armstrong’s hopes of competing in this year’s Tour de France this summer seemed in peril. Back at home in Austin, Texas, his surgery Tuesday morning “went well” says his manager.
“All went well. Lance is in recovery,” the manager affectionately nicknamed “Higs” said on the cyclist’s Twitter page. “Same guy just 12 screws in his collarbone.”
