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Lance Armstrong will likely lose his bronze Olympic medal:
The International Olympic Committee said on Thursday that it has opened an investigation into Armstrong’s role in the drug scandal outlined in the explosive report released on Oct. 10 by the United States Anti-Doping Agency. The IOC will also review the involvement of other cyclists and cycling officials who were implicated in what USADA called the most sophisticated doping program in the history of sports.
Some damned fools are upset because a giant Armstrong effigy is going to end up in ashes this weekend.
Lance's $125 million fortune may evaporate once all of the lawyers get their act together and go after him:
First out of the blocks will be the demand for the return of a $5 million bonus, plus $2.5 million in legal fees for an action he won against a Texas insurance firm that had accused him of taking drugs when he won three consecutive Tour de France’s. With all the evidence that he lied under oath, he will be liable to repay that all of that, plus interest, plus legal fees, plus possible damages, which could end up costing him about $15 million._____
Over the years he has sued and received damages from various newspapers, magazines and publishing houses for his claim that they had impugned his “so-called” character. These are now going to come after him en masse. Then, there are many people, including fellow cyclists, whose lives he has wrecked over the years. He even went after Greg LeMond and his wife when they raised questions about his amazing performance.
In 2001, he had Trek bikes stop manufacturing LeMond cycles and insisted that John Burke, the head of Trek, should have LeMond read a formal apology to Armstrong and fellow doper, Dr. Ferrari. (Since banned for life, along with Armstrong.) The kick in the pants for Armstrong is that Greg LeMond is now the only American to have won the Tour de France. And he did it three times, which is three times more than Lance.
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