The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) erased 14 years of Lance Armstrong's career today (August 24, 2012) -- including his record seven Tour de France titles -- and banned him for life from the sport that made him a hero to millions of cancer survivors, after concluding he used banned substances, according to the Washington Times website.
USADA said it expected cycling's governing board to take similar action. Armstrong is now officially a drug cheat in the eyes of his nation's doping agency.
Armstrong -- who retired a year ago -- said yesterday that he would no longer challenge USADA and declined to exercise his last option by entering arbitration.
He denied again that he ever took banned substances in his career, and called the USADA's investigation a "witch hunt" without a shred of physical evidence.
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