French Accuse Lance Of Drug Use
This sucks for Lance.
I'll side with Lance until there's definitive proof. Since he can't provide another urine specimin from that time period, a sample today will have to be enough. I'm sure he'll beat the rap, as he has in the past.
Lance Armstrong Accused of Abusing Amgen Drug - Forbes.com
Lance Armstrong, the cyclist who overcame a bout with testicular cancer to win the Tour de France seven times, has been accused by a French newspaper of using performance enhancing drugs. On his Web site, Armstrong vigorously denied the allegations.
L'Equip, a French sports daily, reported that tests of urine samples collected before the 1999 tour tested positive for EPO, a multibillion-dollar drug that is thought to be widely abused by athletes for enhancing endurance (See: "What's The Human Speed Limit?"). Armstrong wrote that the newspaper account itself pointed out that the science may be flawed and that there was no way he could defend himself against the charges.
"I will simply restate what I have said many times," Armstrong wrote. "I have never taken performance enhancing drugs."
I'll side with Lance until there's definitive proof. Since he can't provide another urine specimin from that time period, a sample today will have to be enough. I'm sure he'll beat the rap, as he has in the past.
This is not the first time Armstrong has been accused of using performance-enhancing drugs; so far none of the charges have stuck. On his Web site, he calls the charges a "witch hunt." The athlete has also been linked to the drug industry in another way: through cancer awareness spots paid for by drug giant Bristol-Myers Squibb
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