Italian Authorities Said To Uncover $465,000 Payment From Lance Armstrong To Banned Doctor Michelle Ferrari. Lance Armstrong Is Facing New Doping Charges From The USADA. Lance Armstrong Doping Allegations. Cyclists Armstrong, Hamilton Have Confrontation; Now FBI Is Involved : The Two-Way. Hide captionLance Armstrong (L) rides close to compatriot Tyler Hamilton during the fifth stage of the "56th Criterium du Dauphine Libere" in June of 2004.
Damien Meyer/AFP/Getty Images Lance Armstrong (L) rides close to compatriot Tyler Hamilton during the fifth stage of the "56th Criterium du Dauphine Libere" in June of 2004. Over the weekend, Lance Armstrong and Tyler Hamilton, one-time cycling teammates, had a confrontation at a Colorado restaurant. Now, the AP reports, the FBI has asked the restaurant to hand over surveillance tape. As we reported last month, Hamilton made very specific doping accusations against the seven-time Tour de France winner on CBS News' 60 Minutes.
The two cyclists crossed paths at an Aspen, Colo., restaurant Saturday night, said Hamilton attorney Chris Manderson. Altercation Between Armstrong and Hamilton Interests F.B.I. Jodi Larner, a co-owner of the French restaurant Cache Cache in Aspen, said in a telephone interview Tuesday that she spoke to an F.B.I. agent in the morning and that he told her she would be subpoenaed for the surveillance tape.
Federal authorities, who for a year have been investigating Armstrong on suspicion of crimes relating to doping, are looking into whether the encounter between Hamilton and Armstrong on Saturday night constitutes witness tampering, said a person briefed on the matter. That person spoke on condition of anonymity because he did not want to jeopardize his access to delicate information. A federal investigator working on the case declined to comment. Hamilton, one of Armstrong’s teammates on the now-defunct United States Postal Service squad, is one of the witnesses in the case against Armstrong.
Last year, he testified against Armstrong to a federal grand jury in Los Angeles. On Monday, Manderson contacted federal authorities to notify them of the incident. Lance Armstrong: FBI Now Involved In Witness Tampering Investigation. Lance Armstrong Takes Down Anti '60-Minutes' Web Site. Lance Armstrong and his lawyers have taken down a Web site they set up to debunk a 60 Minutes expose that claimed the cyclist used performance-enhancing drugs, which he has denied.
“Now that the heart of the 60 Minutes story has been completely debunked by subsequent revelations, there's no need for the CBS-focused site any longer,” Armstrong's lawyer, Mark Fabiani, told CyclingNews.com of facts4lance.com. “The centerpiece of the 60 Minutes allegation has now been completely destroyed, and we are evaluating all our options.” When approached for comment, a rep for CBS News pointed The Hollywood Reporter to a statement news chief Jeff Fager made on June 1: "60 Minutes stands by its story as truthful, accurate and fair. Lance Armstrong and his lawyers were given numerous opportunities to respond to every detail of our reporting for weeks prior to the broadcast and their written responses were fairly and accurately included in the story. Mr. Associated Press. Lance Armstrong's Lawyers Demand On-Air Apology From '60 Minutes' : The Two-Way. Armstrong Investigation: Rider’s legal team demands apology from ’60 Minutes’ programme.
Ten days after the screening of the ’60 Minutes’ programme alleging widespread doping on the US Postal Service team, Lance Armstrong’s attorneys have demanded an on-air apology.
A wide number of claims were made during the programme, with former team-mates Tyler Hamilton and Frankie Andreu saying that Armstrong and others took banned substances and received blood transfusions. The demanded apology relates to claims of a failed drugs test at the 2001 Tour de Suisse, with Hamilton stating that Armstrong told him that the UCI helped cover up the result. He also said that Armstrong and Johan Bruyneel met the head of the anti-doping laboratory in Switzerland, later reported as being Martial Saugy, and that details of test methods were provided to the duo.
Saugy admitted last week that he met Armstrong and Bruyneel, but denied that the Texan had failed a drugs test. Don’t Judge a Charity by Its Founder’s Fame - Opinion. By Rich Polt The Livestrong Foundation is staring down the barrel of a shotgun.
Its heroic founder and chairman of the board, Lance Armstrong—known for his ascendency to the pinnacle of professional cycling after a grueling battle with cancer—may finally have met his match in the form of the U.S. Justice Department. As a federal grand-jury investigation continues to hear testimony from Mr. Armstrong’s former teammates, increasingly damaging details about his alleged use of performance- enhancing substances gush into the digital universe and water- cooler conversations everywhere.
From a legal standpoint, Lance Armstrong is innocent until proven otherwise; but in the court of public opinion, deliberations are officially under way. Now it will be up to the foundation to help donors understand a basic lesson: A charity’s founder, no matter how famous, isn’t the measure of whether a charity is worthy of a charitable contribution. Yet if it were to be proven that Mr. Mr. Why this all doesn't matter... #LIVESTRONG - mattmcginty's posterous. Associated Press. Associated Press. Cycling: Why Lance Armstrong Should and Will Be Forgiven for Doping. I don't have any type of insider information on the matter, but I truly believe without too much indecision that Lance Armstrong took a cocktail of performance enhancing drugs during his racing career.
In layman's terms, he cheated. Now everyone knows how this will end. Lance will eventually admit to doping, apologize for any fans he hurt or offended, take some time to himself where he won't tweet for everybody to see, and then reemerge, forgiven. This is the United States of Forgiveness, we know Lance will be pardoned. So why does the charade and the debate persist? To begin, Lance Armstrong has become a figure in sports who is inspiration to many. He won the Tour de France, arguably the most physically grueling competition in all of sports, seven times in a row. So is it fair to say we care because we are let down, or are we truly angry at Lance for dishonorably claiming victory not once, but seven times? Lance Armstrong: Why Is The Government Investigating Him? The Sporting Scene: Say It Ain’t So, Lance. Lance does say it ain’t so, but I can’t help feeling a bit like that credulous (and perhaps apocryphal) kid standing on the courthouse steps in Chicago on the day in 1920 when Shoeless Joe Jackson was forever damned by the Black Sox scandal.
Lance Armstrong has always denied accusations that he used performance-enhancing drugs in pursuit of his astonishing streak of seven straight victories in the Tour de France. I have always wanted to believe him. But after watching Scott Pelley interview Lance’s former teammate (and admitted cheater) Tyler Hamilton on “60 Minutes” Sunday evening, my support is starting to seem a little silly, even to me.
For many years, I have been a fairly enthusiastic cyclist, and while living in Europe during the nineteen-nineties I became addicted to the Tour de France. What the ’60 Minutes’ report said and how it affects Lance Amstrong - Y! Sports Blogs. A "60 Minutes" report on Sunday by Scott Pelley detailed allegations that Lance Armstrong promoted and used a doping program for performance enhancing drugs during his seven Tour de France victories.
We look at the allegations and what it means for Amstrong's future: What did we learn from the "60 Minutes" report? 1. Up until now, all speculation about Armstrong was speculative, hearsay or coming from disreputable sources like Floyd Landis. The new report details allegations by Armstrong's former teammate, Tyler Hamilton, who rode with Armstrong's Postal Service teams for many of those Tour de France wins and won an Olympic gold medal himself, which he recently returned due to his admission of cheating. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Facts 4 Lance. Twitter Followers: Lance Armstrong’s secret weapon against doping. Cyclists Said to Back Claims That Armstrong Doped. Armstrong probe running into significant problems - The Denver Post (Build 20110413222027)
By Pete Yost The Associated Press Posted: 02/13/2011 01:00:00 AM MST.
Boulder cyclist Tyler Hamilton says Lance Armstrong used EPO - The Denver Post (Build 20110413222027) By John HendersonThe Denver Post Posted: 05/20/2011 01:00:00 AM MDT|Updated: 3 years ago Tyler Hamilton speaks to 60 Minutes.
(CBS photo) Tyler Hamilton, the Boulder cyclist who denied doping through his two-year ban and into retirement, confessed in a "60 Minutes" interview that he used numerous forms of banned substances and accused Lance Armstrong of the same thing. The show, to be broadcast Sunday, interviewed Hamilton as part of its story on the federal government's investigation into possible doping by Armstrong, the seven-time Tour de France winner and a former teammate of Hamilton's with U.S. Hamilton told the program: "I saw (EPO, a blood booster) in his refrigerator. . . .
Shortly after Hamilton's comments aired, Armstrong launched a website that refuted the claims and tweeted: "20+ year career. 500 drug controls worldwide, in and out of competition. "If there is any need or possibility to take action we will do it," Bach told The Associated Press.