Friday, August 24, 2012

Lance Armstrong is "...finished with this nonsense"

Lance Armstrong has given up his fight to defend his cycling legacy after years of allegations that he was doping when he won 7 straight Tour de France championships. The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency said Thursday night it will strip Lance Armstrong of his Tour de France titles immediately.

"There comes a point in every man's life when he has to say, 'Enough is enough.' For me, that time is now," Armstrong said. He called the USADA investigation an "unconstitutional witch hunt."

"I have been dealing with claims that I cheated and had an unfair advantage in winning my seven Tours since 1999," he said. "The toll this has taken on my family and my work for our foundation and on me leads me to where I am today — finished with this nonsense."

"There is zero physical evidence to support (the) outlandish and heinous claims," Armstrong said. "The only physical evidence here is the hundreds of (doping) controls I have passed with flying colors."