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Lance Armstrong is slightly less banned

Life ban from cycling still in place

Lance Armstrong’s ban has been partially lifted. USA Today reports that since August 24 he has been permitted to compete at a national or regional level in a sport other than cycling.

This part of his ban expired four years after it was announced by the US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA). He remains banned for life from sanctioned cycling events.

The relevant article of the USADA code reads:

“An Athlete or other Person subject to a period of Ineligibility longer than four (4) years may, after completing four (4) years of the period of Ineligibility, participate in local sport events in a sport other than the sport in which the Athlete or other Person committed the anti-doping rule violation, but only so long as the local sport event is not at a level that could otherwise qualify such Athlete or other Person directly or indirectly to compete in (or accumulate points toward) a national championship or International Event.”

Asked about his plans, Armstrong said that his competing days were behind him. “I am now 45 years old and just exercise these days for general fitness and for my sanity.”

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Nevertheless, having been banned from swimming, running and triathlon events for the last four years, he is now permitted to compete. He is currently looking to start up a new endurance-based venture called WEDU and says he will take part in these events.

Armstrong doesn’t currently seem to have any plans beyond this, but maybe he’ll enlighten us more in coming weeks via his rambling weekly podcast (which we haven’t actually listened to since the first episode).

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Municipal Waste | 4 years ago
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Most of the sanctioned events are boring anyway.... See you at SSWC, Lance  1

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Dr. Ko | 7 years ago
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Will he be sponsored by his good buddy Floyd Landis and his "green products"?yes

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Ratfink | 7 years ago
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"He is currently looking to start up a new endurance-based venture called WEDU"

The clean version will be called WEDONT.

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Judge dreadful | 7 years ago
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Meh. The most exposed of all the drug cheats of that era, does some stuff. Yaaaawn.

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peted76 | 7 years ago
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Age category triathete? Can he really be bothered though.. after what he's been through does he still have the same drive? Facinating character, someone should make a film on him..... oh hang on...

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Kadinkski replied to peted76 | 7 years ago
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peted76 wrote:

Age category triathete? Can he really be bothered though.. after what he's been through does he still have the same drive? Facinating character, someone should make a film on him..... oh hang on...

Yeah, that's what I think - age cat triathlons - he's smashing in the miles on strava. I think he's playing it down at the moment but he's too competitive not to want to try. i'd love to see him compete again, so maybe its a bit of wishful thinking.

 

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japes | 7 years ago
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banned on the run

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brooksby replied to japes | 7 years ago
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Quote:

Lance Armstrong is slightly less banned

Does this mean that he's also slightly less of a tw@t? 

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crazy-legs | 7 years ago
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Actually quite an interetsing article on the podcast here:

http://www.inc.com/jeff-haden/lance-armstrong-moving-forward-podcast-int...

 

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