PDA

View Full Version : Dutch report clears Armstrong of doping in 1999 Tour de France



pache100
05-31-2006, 11:12 AM
Report clears Armstrong of doping in 1999 Tour de France
Wednesday May 31, 2006
By ARTHUR MAX
Associated Press Writer
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) Dutch investigators cleared Lance Armstrong of doping in the 1999 Tour de France on Wednesday, and blamed anti-doping authorities for misconduct in dealing with the American cyclist.

A 132-page report recommended convening a tribunal to discuss possible legal and ethical violations by the World Anti-Doping Agency and to consider ``appropriate sanctions to remedy the violations.''

The French sports daily L'Equipe reported in August that six of Armstrong's urine samples from 1999, when he won the first of his record seven-straight Tour titles, came back positive for the endurance-boosting hormone EPO when they were retested in 2004.

Armstrong has repeatedly denied using banned substances.

The International Cycling Union appointed Dutch lawyer Emile Vrijman last October to investigate the handling of urine tests from the 1999 Tour by the French national anti-doping laboratory, known by its French acronym LNDD.

Vrijman said Wednesday his report ``exonerates Lance Armstrong completely with respect to alleged use of doping in the 1999 Tour de France.''

http://ktsa.com/topic/ap_news.php?story=AP/APTV/National/s/s/CYC--Armstrong-Doping-1485748038-ss