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(22 Oct 2012)
Geneva, Switzerland - 22 October 2012
1. Push in of news conference
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Pat McQuaid, Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) President:
"The UCI will ban Lance Armstrong from cycling and the UCI will strip him of his seven Tour de France titles. Lance Armstrong has no place in cycling. The UCI will also recognise the sanctions imposed upon the riders who testified against Lance Armstrong. The UCI indeed thanks them for telling their stories."
3. Cutaway of news conference
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Pat McQuaid, Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) President:
"I have to say and I have to admit as a cyclist and somebody coming from the cycling background I was sickened by what I read in the USADA report. One stands to mind very strongly to me was David Zabriskie. The story that he told of how he was coerced and to some extent forced into doping is just mind boggling."
5. Cutaway of news conference
6. Cutaway of journalists
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Pat McQuaid, Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) President:
"And if I have to apologise now on behalf of the UCI what I will say is that I am sorry that we couldn't catch every damn one of them red-handed and throw them out of the sport."
8. Pull out of end of news conference
Paris, France - 22 October 2012
9. Mid of General Director of Tour de France Christian Prudhomme
10 SOUNDBITE (French) Christian Prudhomme, General Director of Tour de France:
"The decision taken today by the UCI is in no way a surprise, it is even completely logical and we expected it. Lance Armstrong is no longer the winner of the Tour de France from 1999- 2005 and for us, as I've already said ten days ago, we want the winner of the Tour de France from those years to be blank. It's the UCI which will formally take that decision but for us, it's clear that there should be no winner in those years."
Austin, Texas, United States - 21 October 2012
11. Wide of Livestrong official speaking to cyclists before the Ride for the Roses cycling event
12. Former cyclist Lance Armstrong speaking to crowd
FILE: Snowmass Village, Colorado, United States - 25 August, 2012
13. Various of Armstrong taking part in mountain bike race
STORYLINE
Lance Armstrong's name is coming out of cycling's record books.
Armstrong was stripped of his seven Tour de France titles and banned for life by cycling's governing body on Monday following a report from the US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) that accused him of leading a massive doping programme on his teams.
International Cycling Union (Union Cycliste Internationale) President Pat McQuaid announced that the federation accepted the USADA's report on Armstrong and would not appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
"Lance Armstrong has no place in cycling," McQuaid told journalists.
"If I have to apologise now on behalf of the UCI what I will say is that I am sorry that we couldn't catch every damn one of them red-handed and throw them out of the sport," he added.
In Paris, Tour director Christian Prudhomme said at a news conference he no longer considers Armstrong the seven-time champion of the race.
Prudhomme called UCI's decision "totally logical" and said "Lance Armstrong is no longer the winner of the Tour de France from 1999-2005."
The USADA report said Armstrong and his teams used steroids, the blood booster EPO and blood transfusions. The report included statements from 11 former team mates who testified against Armstrong, including testimony that he pressured them to take banned drugs.
USADA's report, released earlier this month, was aimed at showing why the agency ordered the sanctions against him.


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