RussellEbertHandball
Flick pass expert
USADA dealt with it directly and the UCI and USA cycling were ignored because they didn't trust them. That's why they called in Jeff Novitzky. ASADA don't have an investigator like Jeff Novitzky. He started with the IRS looking into BALCO tax issues, then moved to the Food and Drug Administration and looked at BALCO's drug manufacturing and selling of stuff to the Marion Jones group of athletes, the baseballers and then ended up working with USADA and their cycling investigation. Taylor Hamilton in chpt 14 of his book The Secret Race called him the bulldozer as he reckons he drove a bulldozer thru US cycling. Also there was a United States federal law enforcement investigation involving Armstrong. A grand Jury was empanelled in Los Angeles under Doug Miller who had worked with Novitzky on the BALCO case.
The USADA case is somewhat different to AFL and NRL situation because they were investigating a conspiracy and the fact $30mil of government monies was involved via the US Postal Service sponsorship of the team.
However USADA had to make its recommendations to the UCI and they had to accept them before they officially stripped Armstrong of his 7 TDF titles. But they didn't work with the UCI and USA Cycling like ASADA and AFL are working together. They had years of obstruction from those 2 sporting bodies
Here is USADA Cycling reasoned decision and all the appendices and links
http://cyclinginvestigation.usada.org/
USADA wrote to the UCI on 24th August telling them they had given Arnstrong a lifetime ban and had disqualified all his results from August 1st 1998. Because of Armstrong's perjury and fradulent concealment the statue of limitations was removed.
http://d3epuodzu3wuis.cloudfront.net/2012-08-24 USADA to WADA and UCI re. sanctions Armstrong.pdf
Technically the UCI still had to make the disqualifications. They could have taken USADA's penalties to The Court for Arbitration in Sport and appealed them. But on 22nd October they accepted all of USADA's recommendations of a lifetime ban to Armstrong + his team director Johan Bruyneel + 3 doctors + the team trainer.
http://www.uci.ch/Modules/ENews/ENewsDetails2011.asp?id=ODgzNA&MenuId=MTYzMDQ
22.10.2012
The UCI has completed its review of USADA’s ‘Reasoned Decision’ and appendices in the case against Lance Armstrong.
The UCI considered the main issues of jurisdiction, the statute of limitation the evidence gathered by USADA and the sanction imposed upon Mr. Armstrong.
The UCI confirms that it will not appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport and that it will recognise the sanction that USADA has imposed.
The USADA decision explains how riders on the USPS Team showed no inclination to share the full extent of what they knew until they were subpoenaed or called by federal investigators and that their only reason for telling the truth is because the law required them to do so.
These riders have confronted their past and told their stories. Their accounts of their past provide a shocking insight into the USPS Team where the expression to ‘win at all costs’ was redefined in terms of deceit, intimidation, coercion and evasion.
Their testimony confirms that the anti-doping infrastructure that existed at that time was, by itself, insufficient and inadequate to detect the practices taking place within the team. The UCI has always been the first international sporting federation to embrace new developments in the fight against doping and it regrets that the anti-doping infrastructure that exists today was not available at that time so as to render such evasion impossible.
Many of the USPS Team riders have already acknowledged that the culture of cycling has now changed and that young riders today are no longer confronted with the same choices to use performance enhancing drugs. They are right to do so................
http://www.uci.ch/Modules/ENews/ENewsDetails2011.asp?id=ODgzNA&MenuId=MTYzMDQ
