The final international race of Lance Armstrong, the seven-time Tour de France winner, was swated away by new allegations that he may have used performance enhancing drugs.

Armstrong was accused of having higher than usual testosterone ratios in 1993, 1994, and 1996 as per a lengthy investigation published in the American magazine Sports Illustrated.

From Guardian.co.uk:

Asked about the Sports Illustrated story at the start of the day’s stage of the Tour Down Under, Armstrong responded briefly with: “I have nothing to say.” Armstrong said he had read the article: “I perused it – there’s nothing there.” Pressed to give a response, the exchange became more heated as Armstrong said to the reporter who posed the question: “What part of I’m not commenting is not clear to you?” Later, he added: “I don’t have anything to worry about, on any level.” After the article appeared on Sports Illustrated‘s website, the twitter feed juanpelota, which is used by Armstrong for his triathlon activities, ran a brief comment: “that’s it?”

The exchanges in Australia and the Sports Illustrated report were an echo of the first time Armstrong retired from racing, after he took his seventh win in the Tour in 2005. A few weeks later the newspaper L’Equipe splashed the headline Le Mensonge Armstrong (The Armstrong lie) across its front page, breaking the story that urine samples from the 1999 Tour de France had been retrospectively tested for the blood booster erythropoietin and six samples allegedly belonging to Armstrong had tested positive.

Armstrong maintained he had never used performance enhancing drugs even though the investigation suggested that his teams had maintained links with his controversial trainer Dr Michele Ferrari.

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