
Drama: Lance Armstrong admitted doping to Oprah Winfrey
The shamed icon will be written to by the IOC after telling Oprah Winfrey that, despite years of denials, his seven Tour de France titles were fuelled by illegal stimulants - an admission that prompted the world's leading crusader against drugs in sport to question cycling's place in the Olympic Games.
Dick Pound, an IOC member and the former head of the World Anti- Doping Agency, said if the governing International Cycling Union (UCI) are complicit in Armstrong's doping offences, 'the only way they are going to clean up is if all these people say, "Hey, we're no longer in the Olympics and that's where we want to be so let's earn our way back into it".
The shamed icon will be written to by the IOC after telling Oprah Winfrey that, despite years of denials, his seven Tour de France titles were fuelled by illegal stimulants - an admission that prompted the world's leading crusader against drugs in sport to question cycling's place in the Olympic Games.
Dick Pound, an IOC member and the former head of the World Anti- Doping Agency, said if the governing International Cycling Union (UCI) are complicit in Armstrong's doping offences, 'the only way they are going to clean up is if all these people say, "Hey, we're no longer in the Olympics and that's where we want to be so let's earn our way back into it".
The shamed icon will be written to by the IOC after telling Oprah Winfrey that, despite years of denials, his seven Tour de France titles were fuelled by illegal stimulants - an admission that prompted the world's leading crusader against drugs in sport to question cycling's place in the Olympic Games.
Dick Pound, an IOC member and the former head of the World Anti- Doping Agency, said if the governing International Cycling Union (UCI) are complicit in Armstrong's doping offences, 'the only way they are going to clean up is if all these people say, "Hey, we're no longer in the Olympics and that's where we want to be so let's earn our way back into it".
Disgraced: Armstrong pictured in Sydney with his Olympic bronze medal
'The IOC would have to deal with it. The UCI are not known for their strong actions in anti-doping. It was the same in weightlifting a few years ago.
'All of a sudden when you get right up against it things go fuzzy and they say, "Well, we can't punish innocent athletes in these sports by dropping the sport from the program".'
It is understood that the IOC would ..
Dick Pound, an IOC member and the former head of the World Anti- Doping Agency, said if the governing International Cycling Union (UCI) are complicit in Armstrong's doping offences, 'the only way they are going to clean up is if all these people say, "Hey, we're no longer in the Olympics and that's where we want to be so let's earn our way back into it".
Disgraced: Armstrong pictured in Sydney with his Olympic bronze medal
'The IOC would have to deal with it. The UCI are not known for their strong actions in anti-doping. It was the same in weightlifting a few years ago.
'All of a sudden when you get right up against it things go fuzzy and they say, "Well, we can't punish innocent athletes in these sports by dropping the sport from the program".'
It is understood that the IOC would ..




