Armstrong fires back
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Seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong said he was the victim of a “witch hunt” this week, after a Paris newspaper accused him of using performance-enhancing drugs to win his first Tour, in 1999. L’Equipe, a sports daily, reported that a French lab recently used new technology to test frozen urine samples for a drug that boosts oxygen flow in the bloodstream. The samples were anonymous, but the newspaper said it linked a positive result to Armstrong using a code found on other documents identifying him by name. “I will simply restate what I have said many times,” the cycling legend from Texas said on his Web site. “I have never taken performance-enhancing drugs.”
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