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Armstrong stripped of Tour de France titles,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]
The decision by the International Cycling Union marked an end to the saga that brought down the most decorated rider in Tour history and exposed widespread cheating in the sport.
"Lance Armstrong has no place in cycling,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and he deserves to be forgotten in cycling," said Pat McQuaid,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], president of the governing body. "Make no mistake, it's a catastrophe for him, and he has to face up to that."
It's also devastating for Tour de France organizers,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], who have to carve seven gaping holes from the honour roll of the sport's biggest event and airbrush Armstrong's image from a sun-baked podium on the Champs-Elysees.
No more rides through Paris for the grim-faced cancer survivor bearing the American flag. No champagne. From the sport's perspective, it's all gone.
"We wish that there is no winner for this period,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]," Tour director Christian Prudhomme said Monday in Paris. "For us,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], very clearly, the titles should remain blank. Anti-Doping Agency two weeks ago,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], when it detailed evidence of drug use and trafficking by his Tour-winning teams.
USADA released its report to show why it ordered Armstrong banned from competition back in August,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]. Monday's judgment by the UCI was just the necessary next legal step to formalize the loss of his titles and expel him from the sport,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych].
It will likely also trigger painful financial hits for Armstrong as race organizers and former sponsors line up to reclaim what are now viewed as his ill-gotten rewards,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], though the cyclist maintains he never doped.
Prudhomme wants Armstrong to pay back prize money from his seven wins,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], which the French cycling federation tallied at $3.85 million. Armstrong also once was awarded $7.5 million plus legal fees from Dallas-based SCA Promotions Inc.,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], which tried to withhold paying a bonus for the rider's 2004 Tour victory after it alleged he doped to win.
The losses pile up for a man who dedicated himself to victory,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], over other cyclists and the cancer that almost killed him in 1996.
Neither Armstrong nor his representatives had any comment about Monday's decision, but the rider was defiant in August when he chose not to fight USADA in one of the agency's arbitration hearings. He argued the process was rigged against him.
"I know who won those seven Tours,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], my teammates know who won those seven Tours, and everyone I competed against knows who won those seven Tours,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]," Armstrong said then.
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