Betcha y’all didn’t know 295

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October 22, 2012, Lance Armstrong is formally stripped of the seven Tour de France titles he won from 1999 to 2005 and banned for life from competitive cycling after being charged with systematically using illicit performance-enhancing drugs and blood transfusions as well as demanding that some of his Tour teammates dope in order to help him win races. It was a dramatic fall from grace for the onetime global cycling icon, who inspired millions of people after surviving cancer then going on to become one of the most dominant riders in the history of the grueling French race, which attracts the planet’s top cyclists.

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So close, so far. Poor judgement... No Wheaties box picture for you Lance.

[Kenneth R Cluley 707]

I actually met him in Atlanta in1996 at Olympics. My son got his autograph. Groups of cyclists doing training/practice rides and we were in area. I saw Eddie Merckx a little ways off but he would not come over to mingle with us commoners. Was a big Lance fan until the scandal