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| Lance Armstrong deprived of all titles |
— On the day he went public with an admission of doping after years of denials, Olympic officials disclosed one more embarrassment for Lance Armstrong: He was stripped of a bronze medal won at the 2000 Sydney Games.
On Monday, Armstrong taped an interview with Oprah Winfrey for broadcast Thursday and Friday on her network. A person familiar with the situation told the AP that the winner of seven straight Tour de France titles confessed to Winfrey to using performance-enhancing drugs. The timing of the IOC move, however, was not related to the TV interview.
Lance Edward Armstrong, originally Gunderson, born 18 september 1971 in Plano, Texas, is an American former racing cyclist. Lance Armstrong is the only cyclist who has been nominated the winner of the Tour de France seven times, which was 1999-2005. In August 2012 USADA announced that he would be deprived of these titles after giving up in face of doping allegations. This decision was done in October 2012 by the International Cycling Union (UCI). During his career he never won Giro d'Italia or the tour of Spain (the Vuelta a España).
