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Wumpus

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Report: Armstrong's alleged donation to USADA

Armstrong attorney denies $250k offer, Tygart confirms

Although the US Anti-Doping Agency's final "reasoned decision" on its lifetime ban of Lance Armstrong has had months to gather dust, a new segment from 60 Minute Sports to be aired on Wednesday is reportedly going to bring to light new allegations of possible graft by the now-former seven time Tour de France champion.

The report by Scott Pelley, the same journalist who first brought Tyler Hamilton's allegations of doping by Armstrong to light on the television network CBS, is said to have confirmation from USADA CEO Travis Tygart on an offer by Armstrong to donate a large sum of money, up to $250,000.

"I was stunned," Tygart says in the interview, according to USA Today. "It was clear - it was a clear conflict of interest for USADA. We had no hesitation in rejecting that offer."

While USADA was keen to point out in its 1,000+ page reasoned decision that Armstrong gave some $100,000 to the UCI, and Tygart heavily criticized the sport's governing body for accepting the money, nowhere in the document does it state that Armstrong also attempted to provide a similarly large donation to USADA in 2004, as the 60 Minutes Sports segment alleges.

Tygart did not return Cyclingnews' request for comment today, but Armstrong's attorney Tim Herman replied to a request for confirmation, stating there is "no truth to that story".

"[The] first Lance heard of it was today. He never made any such contribution or suggestion."
 

Wumpus

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USADA CEO Travis Tygart believes that the head of the WADA laboratory in Lausanne provided Lance Armstrong with the necessary information to avoid positive tests for EPO in the early part of the last decade.

Martial Saugy has already admitted to meeting with Armstrong and US Postal manager Johan Bruyneel to explain how the EPO test worked in 2001, a year after Armstrong returned a ‘suspect sample’ at the Tour de Suisse, which had been tested in Lausanne.

Speaking in an interview with Showtime’s 60 Minutes Sports programme on Wednesday evening, Tygart recalled meeting Saugy at a dinner in 2010 and discussing Armstrong’s sample from the 2001 Tour de Suisse.

“He [Saugy] sat beside me and said there are samples from Lance Armstrong that indicated EPO use. He also told us that he had been instructed by the UCI to meet Lance Armstrong and Johan Bruyneel to explain the EPO testing process,” Tygart said.

“I asked him: ‘Did you give Lance Armstrong and Johan Bruyneel the keys to beating the EPO test?’ And he nodded his head yes. He explained it to the two of them. As far as I know, it’s unprecedented. It’s totally inappropriate to bring in an athlete with a suspicious test and explain to them how the EPO test works.”

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/lausanne-laboratory-gave-armstrong-key-to-beating-epo-test-says-tygart
 
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Burnt-Orange

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I'm starting to think that lance is just an attention whore
every time people stop talking about him he dose something to bring attention to himself
after things started to cool down about his titles and ban he had to go all Oprah on us
shameless narcissist
he has a stupid face
 

CBJ

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Not sure if its from watching all of season 3 of Boardwalk Empire this week but what Lance did looks more and more like organized crime he even killed off one off his balls.
 

boogenman

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He should have gone for letterman not Oprah.

Why strip him of his victories? All those guys juice, lance just had the best juice. What's next , they all are going to ride the same bike too?
 

CBJ

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He should have gone for letterman not Oprah.

Why strip him of his victories? All those guys juice, lance just had the best juice. What's next , they all are going to ride the same bike too?
This is what I used to say but there is so much more to it and what he did went way beyond just doping try to start with the interview above posted by worship_mud to find out more.
 

squiby

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au contraire, word's out ..... he confesses!

This is where the train wreck bursts into flames. Should make good ratings
 

Burnt-Orange

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I know I shouldn't care but.....
I can't wait to see him cry on Opera
hope he sounds like my 3 year old girl
that would be hilarious
 

RUFUS

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I am the only one that really just doesn't care about this anymore?
So he did and he lied. Big ****ing deal.
 

Westy

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I am the only one that really just doesn't care about this anymore?
So he did and he lied. Big ****ing deal.
I don't really care about the doping but the blackmail, bullying and other mafioso like actions may me want to see him pay.
 

CBJ

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I am the only one that really just doesn't care about this anymore?
So he did and he lied. Big ****ing deal.
Pesqueeb and Westy sniped me.

Besides the contracts he signed and defrauded including the government in the form of the postal services he is a bully and he bullied and sometimes ruined those who questioned his version of events:

http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/14/armstrong-and-winfrey-familiar-names-in-a-time-honored-ritual/

We need to stand up to bullies simple as that.
 
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CBJ

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I don't really care about the doping but the blackmail, bullying and other mafioso like actions may me want to see him pay.
I use the mafioso example to the people who still talk about how he never tested positive. I tell them Al Capone was never convicted of anything but tax evasion does that mean he never killed anybody :)