Seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong said he would no longer fight doping charges by the US Anti-Doping Agency, which quickly said it would strip him of his titles and ban him from competitive cycling.
Unrepentant and seemingly unconcerned, Lance Armstrong was going about his business as usual as the cycling world was left reeling by the revelations about his alleged role as a doping ringleader.
The US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) has given disgraced American cyclist Lance Armstrong two more weeks to cooperate fully in an investigation into cycling's darkest episode in return for a possible reduction of his life ban.