UCI: No Doping Evidence Against Lance Armstrong
POSTED: 8:57 am PDT September 9, 2005
UPDATED: 9:08 am PDT September 9, 2005
AIGLE, Switzerland -- The governing body of world cycling said Friday it has no evidence of doping against Lance Armstrong.
The International Cycling Union says it can't make a judgment regarding recent doping allegations against the retired seven-time Tour de France winner from Austin.
The union -- which goes by its French acronym UCI – said it hasn't received "any official information or document" from anti-doping authorities. Nor has it any data from the lab reportedly involved in the testing of frozen urine samples from the 1999 Tour de France.
The French sports daily L'Equipe reported last month that the performance-enhancing drug EPO was found in Armstrong's frozen 1999 urine samples.
Armstrong has angrily denied the charges and questioned the validity of testing samples frozen six years ago.
UCI says it's still gathering information and had asked the World Anti-Doping Agency and the French laboratory for more background. Most importantly, it wants to know who commissioned the research and who agreed to make it public.
