IOC official calls for Armstrong confession — The Washington Post

The vice president of the International Olympic Committee has called for Lance Armstrong to confess to doping and has confirmed that the IOC would await the UCI’s ruling on the Armstrong doping case before making a move on Armstrong’s 2000 time trial bronze medal.

“It would be in the interest of sport and in his own interest,” Bach said of an Armstrong confession in an interview with the Associated Press. “It would help cleaning up, and also it would help in drawing the right conclusions for the future to prevent something like this would ever happen again.”


And this, also from velonews.com:

Omega Pharma-Quick Step has terminated its contract with American Levi Leipheimer following his admission last week that he doped between 1999 and 2007. Leipheimer was a witness in the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency’s case against Lance Armstrong and detailed his use of performance enhancing drugs in a sworn affidavit and in an op-ed for the website of The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday.

“We commend the rider for his open cooperation with USADA and contribution to cleaning up the sport of cycling,” the team said in a statement. “However, in the light of the disclosures made by Mr. Leipheimer in his public statement on 10th of October the team has decided to terminate the contract.

“This decision has the full support of the team owner, the board represented by Mr. Bessel Kok and team manager Mr. Patrick Lefevere.”

As one of 11 former Armstrong teammates to testify before the USADA investigators, Leipheimer has admitted to using performance enhancing drugs and methods between 1999 and 2007 while riding for Saturn, U.S. Postal Service, Rabobank, Gerolsteiner and Astana. Lefevere last week told VeloNews that Leipheimer only informed him of his upcoming admission and outing by USADA hours before the news hit.

“He called me one hour before the statement was released,” Lefevere said. “He never told us anything before we signed him and nothing at all this year. It’s a big mess. The easiest thing would be to say, ‘end of story.’ Many will defend him. We will have to see what our board and sponsors say. I don’t think it’s a big mess for us. It’s clear it’s all about the past.”

Lefevere admitted in 2007 to having used doping products, including amphetamines, during his own career.

Leipheimer was not immediately available for comment. As one of four active riders to testify in the Armstrong investigation, Leipheimer is the first rider fired over revelations of his past doping activities. The Garmin-Sharp squad of Tom Danielson, Christian Vande Velde and Dave Zabriskie — the other three active riders to testify — spoke out in support of its riders on Wednesday.

Leipheimer finished third in the 2007 Tour de France, won the bronze medal in the time trial at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, won the U.S. professional road race championship in 2007 and is a three-time champion of the Amgen Tour of California (2007-2009).

p.s. Lance, a serial Tweeter, hasn't tweeted in three days.

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^^^ The information in the P.S. speaks volumes.

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Come on Lance. Show some ball (singular) and come clean!

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He is all alone, backed into a corner, gimlet eyes narrowed, waiting....

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Everybody was doping...I always wondered why Contador never showed Lance any respect after he left discovery, I think he new Lance was juicing. Some great races though, Lance n Ulrich, Beloki, Pantani..

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yes but Contador was doping too (hence his own suspension)

What's the first 3 words of my previous post? No need for a "yes but..." Everybody that was close in the mountains was juicing, they haven't gone after Indurain, the Spaniards are proud of their champion, they won't lauch some internal investigation to beat down their own!!

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Avidtesty (Arch 2019)

Don't even get me started....... Everyone was doping. Some just rat out others that all I'm sayn.....

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ok, then why would contador show no respect if he was juicing too, just didnt/doesnt make sense, but no matter

Contador didn't show any respect to anybody because he is a jerk, plain and simple. He didn't really seem to respect the TDF much either. Just showed up rode and padded himself on the shoulder on the way to the bank.

He stepped down as Chairman of Livestrong.

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"Today therefore, to spare the foundation any negative effects as a result of controversy surrounding my cycling career, I will conclude my chairmanship."


And Nike just dropped him--Nike! I mean, Nike still sponsors Tiger Woods:

"Due to the seemingly insurmountable evidence that Lance Armstrong participated in doping and misled Nike for more than a decade, it is with great sadness that we have terminated our contract with him," Nike (NKE, Fortune 500) said it a statement. "Nike does not condone the use of illegal performance enhancing drugs in any manner."

I can't imagine being Lance Armstrong at the moment. He has to come clean.

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"New York City is a mismanaged carnival of stupidity that is desperate for revenue and anxious to criminalize behavior once thought benign."
--Alex Baldwin, unknowingly describing his socialist utopia.

lewis black sizes up the armstrong issue, before segueing into the dark side of life

http://www.hulu.com/watch/413946



...so, why aren't all of us doping?

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There's always option no. 2, but being the egotist that he is, that's even more unlikely than him coming clean.

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"We have decided not to renew our relationship with Lance Armstrong when our current contract expires at the end of 2012," Paul Chibe, Vice President of U.S. Marketing, Anheuser-Busch said in astatement. "We will continue to support the Livestrong Foundation and its cycling and running events."

[Updated at 12:18 p.m. ET] Nike will take Lance Armstrong’s name off their Nike campus fitness center in Beaverton, Oregon, spokeswoman Mary Remuzz tells CNN.


Come clean, dude. You have nothing to lose at this point. Everyone knows you doped.

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"New York City is a mismanaged carnival of stupidity that is desperate for revenue and anxious to criminalize behavior once thought benign."
--Alex Baldwin, unknowingly describing his socialist utopia.