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AFP: Suspicions remain as Armstrong concludes career Sun Jul 24 2005 16:44:37 ET The final Tour de France victory of Lance Armstrong has left a legacy which may takes years to beat, but France's AFP wire reports, Armstrong's domination of the race since 1999, 18 months after he had recovered from cancer, has always aroused suspicion. In 2001 it emerged he had been working with notorious Italian sports doctor Michele Ferrari who was suspected in Italy of distributing and administering banned products to a number of top athletes. Armstrong admitted his "periodic collaboration" with Ferrari, who last year was handed a one-year suspended sentence for sports fraud, but he stands firm behind the fact that he has never tested positive for any banned drugs. After seven years of domination on the Tour, Armstrong's success for some is still an enigma. Jalabert, who raced for the Spanish ONCE team and ended his career with CSC manager Bjarne Riis, claimed that some teams hold the magic formula to avoid being caught by the doping inspectors. "Someone asked me, 'why is Armstrong and his team superior to all the others?'. I said, 'because they've got the recipe that works'. "I don't want to go into all the medical details. All I'm saying is that people who watch cycling are not stupid." Boyer feels that Armstrong, despite his seven Tour victories, has left some unconvinced. "The doubt remains as to whether there's something hiding behind his success. A lot of people who work on the Tour feel something's not quite right. "History shows us that we'll end up finding out in the end. My passion is cycling and I hope we find out that everything that Armstrong has achieved is the fruit of his hard work and his quality. Not the contrary. "I hope we find out that we were wrong to have doubts." END |
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