USADA sets deadline for Armstrong
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January 27, 2013, Sunday
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THE United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) has set disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong a February 6 deadline to fully cooperate in the investigation into cycling's darkest episode in return for a possible reduction of his life ban.
In excerpts of his interview with the CBS network scheduled for broadcast today, USADA CEO Travis Tygart said he had written a letter to Armstrong with the offer. It is not clear if cooperation from Armstrong could take the form of testimony before a truth and reconciliation commission.
Armstrong, 41, admitted in an interview with Oprah Winfrey last week that he had cheated his way to a record seven Tour de France titles with systematic use of banned, performance-enhancing drugs. Last year he was stripped of his titles.
Tygart also disputed Armstrong's claims of a clean comeback in 2009.
"His blood tests in 2009, 2010 ... one to a million chance that it was due to something other than doping," Tygart said.
In excerpts of his interview with the CBS network scheduled for broadcast today, USADA CEO Travis Tygart said he had written a letter to Armstrong with the offer. It is not clear if cooperation from Armstrong could take the form of testimony before a truth and reconciliation commission.
Armstrong, 41, admitted in an interview with Oprah Winfrey last week that he had cheated his way to a record seven Tour de France titles with systematic use of banned, performance-enhancing drugs. Last year he was stripped of his titles.
Tygart also disputed Armstrong's claims of a clean comeback in 2009.
"His blood tests in 2009, 2010 ... one to a million chance that it was due to something other than doping," Tygart said.
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