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Armstrong not surprised

LANCE Armstrong said he was not surprised by a French Senate inquiry's findings that the top two in the 1998 Tour de France took the banned blood booster EPO.

"I am not surprised," the disgraced Tour winner told Cyclingnews. "As I have said, it was an unfortunate era for all of us and virtually all of us broke the rules, and lied about it."

The American, who was stripped of his seven Tour titles for doping, called for cycling to address its doping past in a "collective and co-operative manner".

"If we don't come together, have the conversation and draw a line in the sand and then move on, we're all screwed," he said.

Armstrong admitted having taken performance-enhancing drugs in January after the US Anti-Doping Agency revealed a sophisticated doping program.

The French Senate inquiry named him as testing positive for EPO in 1999.





 

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