IOC reviews US report on Armstrong
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October 13, 2012, Saturday
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THE IOC is looking into the US Anti-Doping Agency's case against Lance Armstrong to see if there is enough evidence to open an investigation that could result in the stripping of Olympic medals.
Bronze medals won by Armstrong in 2000 and former teammate Levi Leipheimer in 2008 could come under scrutiny following USADA's report exposing "the most sophisticated, professionalized and successful doping program that sport has ever seen."
The International Olympic Committee said it was reviewing the 200-page report "together will all related documentation." "It would be premature at this stage to say whether the IOC is contemplating any action," spokeswoman Emmanuelle Moreau said. "Should we come across any evidence that would justify opening a disciplinary procedure, we would of course act accordingly."
USADA issued the report on Wednesday explaining its reasons for stripping Armstrong of his seven Tour de France titles and banning him for life from Olympic sports.
Suspended
Leipheimer also confessed to doping. He was provisionally suspended by his Belgium-based Omega Pharma-Quick-Step team. Leipheimer was Armstrong's teammate for five years with the US Postal, Astana and RadioShack teams.
Armstrong won the time trial bronze medal at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. Leipheimer won bronze in the same event at the 2008 Beijing Games.
The IOC has an eight-year statute of limitations for changing Olympic results, which could affect any moves to take Armstrong's medal from 2000.
"For Armstrong, I'm not sure," Oswald said. "Sydney might be too late."
World Anti-Doping Agency director-general David Howman said Armstrong pursued the systematic doping program for a decade "probably with the knowledge" of people who were charged with detecting drug cheats.
"What seems to have happened in this particular scenario is that it went on for many years under the noses of those who were supposed to be detecting it and at times probably with their knowledge," Howman said, adding Armstrong had finally been caught because fellow cyclists had broken a code of omerta (silence).
Bronze medals won by Armstrong in 2000 and former teammate Levi Leipheimer in 2008 could come under scrutiny following USADA's report exposing "the most sophisticated, professionalized and successful doping program that sport has ever seen."
The International Olympic Committee said it was reviewing the 200-page report "together will all related documentation." "It would be premature at this stage to say whether the IOC is contemplating any action," spokeswoman Emmanuelle Moreau said. "Should we come across any evidence that would justify opening a disciplinary procedure, we would of course act accordingly."
USADA issued the report on Wednesday explaining its reasons for stripping Armstrong of his seven Tour de France titles and banning him for life from Olympic sports.
Suspended
Leipheimer also confessed to doping. He was provisionally suspended by his Belgium-based Omega Pharma-Quick-Step team. Leipheimer was Armstrong's teammate for five years with the US Postal, Astana and RadioShack teams.
Armstrong won the time trial bronze medal at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. Leipheimer won bronze in the same event at the 2008 Beijing Games.
The IOC has an eight-year statute of limitations for changing Olympic results, which could affect any moves to take Armstrong's medal from 2000.
"For Armstrong, I'm not sure," Oswald said. "Sydney might be too late."
World Anti-Doping Agency director-general David Howman said Armstrong pursued the systematic doping program for a decade "probably with the knowledge" of people who were charged with detecting drug cheats.
"What seems to have happened in this particular scenario is that it went on for many years under the noses of those who were supposed to be detecting it and at times probably with their knowledge," Howman said, adding Armstrong had finally been caught because fellow cyclists had broken a code of omerta (silence).
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