Armstrong banned, stripped of his 7 titles

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UCI has agreed to strip Armstrong of his seven Tour de France titles and ban him for life.

22 October,2012 05:45 pm

Cyclings governing body has agreed to strip Lance Armstrong of his seven Tour de France titles and ban him for life.UCI President Pat McQuaid announced Monday that the federation accepted the U.S. Anti-Doping Agencys report on Armstrong and would not appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.The decision clears the way for Tour de France organizers to officially remove Armstrongs name from the record books, erasing his consecutive victories from 1999-2005.Tour director Christian Prudhomme has said the race would go along with what cycling governing body is decides and will have no official winners for those years.