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class='resource-pool'\u003e\n\u003cspan class='pool-label'\u003ePublisher:\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='pool-name'\u003e\n\u003cspan class='text'\u003e\u003ca data-publisher-id=\"30356011\" href=\"/search?publisher_ids%5B%5D=30356011\"\u003eCurated Video\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-description'\u003e\n\u003cspan class='short-description'\u003eLance Armstrong is gearing up for a fight over the latest round of doping allegations.Armstrong's lawyers demanded access to evidence gathered by the US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA), including test results and the names of witnesses who...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eLance Armstrong is gearing up for a fight over the latest round of doping allegations.\u003cbr/\u003eArmstrong's lawyers demanded access to evidence gathered by the US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA), including test results and the names of witnesses who said they saw the seven-time Tour de France champion use performance-enhancing drugs.\u003cbr/\u003eArmstrong has until June 22 to respond in writing to the fresh allegations, the first step of what could be a months-long process. \u003cbr/\u003eThe AP obtained a copy of the letter Armstrong's attorney, Robert Luskin, sent to USADA.\u003cbr/\u003e\"(We) cannot protect Mr. Armstrong's rights without knowing who is saying what and what events that allegedly occurred over the course of a decade and a half,\" Luskin wrote. \u003cbr/\u003e\"Even at this preliminary stage, your reliance on secret witnesses making deliberately vague charges is unconscionable.\"\u003cbr/\u003eArmstrong's representatives have long said they think that USDA has zealously tried to prove doping allegations.  \u003cbr/\u003eIn a previous letter, Luskin complained that USADA officials tagged along with federal criminal investigators to interview witnesses during a two-year probe that ended in February with no criminal charges against Armstrong.\u003cbr/\u003eArmstrong had hoped that case would end the doping questions that have dogged his career, but USADA said it would press its own investigation. \u003cbr/\u003eThe agency notified Armstrong on Tuesday that the new charges would be filed.\u003cbr/\u003eArmstrong could be stripped of the Tour titles he won from 1999 to 2005 and banned from cycling, though he retired from the sport last year.\u003cbr/\u003eDamien Ressiot a sports journalists at L'Equipe daily sports newspaper said the charges are also extremely damaging to Armstrong's reputation. \u003cbr/\u003e\"It's going to be disastrous for him especially in the United States because he represents something huge in terms of popularity,\" he said.  \u003cbr/\u003eUSADA says that blood samples from 2009 and 2010 are consistent with performance-enhancing drug use and that more than 10 former Armstrong team mates and support personnel will testify they saw him use drugs or talk about using them. \u003cbr/\u003eArmstrong's representatives say that the blood samples collected during this period - when he came out of retirement to race again in the Tour - didn't result in positive drug tests at the time.\u003cbr/\u003eHowever, sports medicine expert Gary Wadler says that there doesn't have to be chemical proof for Armstrong to be found guilty. \u003cbr/\u003e\"You can have a doping violation; not because of something found in the urine or found in the blood but because of other evidence. And so it doesn't necessarily have to be that you found something, it can be circumstances.\"\u003cbr/\u003ePierre Bordry, who headed the French anti-doping agency from 2004 to 2010, said the USADA action was important to help defend the image of the Tour de France.\u003cbr/\u003eBordry presided over the agency, known as the AFLD, during one of the most scandal-ridden eras in the long history of doping on the Tour.\u003cbr/\u003eHe said that among nearly all of the top cyclists during Armstrong's era, he is one of the only ones never to be penalised. \u003cbr/\u003e\"You can't let go cases of suspected doping indefinitely. At some point you need to say he doped or he didn't dope. So if we can make progress in clarifying that, it's very important because it will allow the sports world to get over an obstacle that until now could not be overcome,\" he said.\u003cbr/\u003eThe 40-year-old Armstrong was training for a June 24 triathlon in France, but was banned on Wednesday when the new allegations were announced. \u003cbr/\u003eHe said on Thursday he was returning to the United States, then decided to stay with hopes that triathlon officials would change their mind.\u003cbr/\u003eA spokesperson for World Triathlon Corp., which runs the event said race officials would announce an update on Armstrong's status on Friday.\u003cbr/\u003eFILE: Paris - 24 July 2005\u003cbr/\u003e1. Zoom-in to cyclist Lance Armstrong walking onto podium\u003cbr/\u003e2. Spectators clapping\u003cbr/\u003e3. Armstrong with his children on podium\u003cbr/\u003eNice - 14 June 2012 \u003cbr/\u003e4.Pierre Bordry, former president of France's Anti-Doping Agency reading French daily sports newspaper L'Equipe\u003cbr/\u003e5 Close up of L'Equipe story on Armstrong with the headline reading (in French) \"The Imposture Is Over\"\u003cbr/\u003e6. SOUNDBITE (French) Pierre Bordry, former president of France's Anti-Doping Agency: \u003cbr/\u003e\"The American agency, with the agreement of the World Anti-Doping Agency, which plays a very important role in these types of cases, looked for, in every country where it could look, elements that could clarify the situation of Lance Armstrong: Did he dope or did he not? So, thanks to the cooperation and under the supervision of the World Anti-Doping Agency, they obtained elements that we've been told are important and serious elements, and so important and so serious that they justify an immediate punishment of not doing sports for the aforementioned person.\"\u003cbr/\u003e7. Cutaway of Bordry with L'Equipe.\u003cbr/\u003e8. SOUNDBITE (French) Pierre Bordry, former president of France's Anti-Doping Agency: \u003cbr/\u003e\"I believe what's important, beyond the individual case of Armstrong, what's very important is for cycling. You can't let go cases of suspected doping indefinitely. At some point you need to say he doped or he didn't dope. So if we can make progress in clarifying that, it's very important because it will allow the sports world to get over an obstacle that until now could not be overcome.\"\u003cbr/\u003e9. Wide of Bordry talking to reporter\u003cbr/\u003eParis - 14 June 2012\u003cbr/\u003e10. Cutaway of French sports journalist Damien Ressiot at his desk\u003cbr/\u003e11. Close up of Ressiot's computer displaying story with the headline reading: \"Armstrong: 'Baseless.'\"\u003cbr/\u003e12. SOUNDBITE (French) Damien Ressiot, sports journalists at L'Equipe daily sports newspaper: \u003cbr/\u003e\"We should find out fairly soon about the consequences on his sports record. However in terms of image it will obviously be disastrous. It's going to be disastrous for him especially in the United States because he represents something huge in terms of popularity.\" \u003cbr/\u003e13. Mid of French sports journalist Damien Ressiot at his desk\u003cbr/\u003e14. Close of L'Equipe story with Ressiot's byline\u003cbr/\u003eNew York - 14 June 2012\u003cbr/\u003e15. Mid of Gary Wadler, sports medicine doctor \u003cbr/\u003e16. SOUNDBITE (English) Gary Wadler, Associate Professor of Medicine at Hofstra-North Shore LIJ School of Medicine:\u003cbr/\u003e\"There is an element of the world anti-doping code which calls for non-analytical positives. That is, you can have a doping violation; not because of something found in the urine or found in the blood but because of other evidence. And so it doesn't necessarily have to be that you found something, it can be circumstances.\"\u003cbr/\u003e17. Wide of cyclists in Central Park \u003cbr/\u003e18. SOUNDBITE (English) Jeff Maxim, cycling enthusiast: \u003cbr/\u003e\"I think that's one of the reasons he's not guilty, to have so much going for him in terms of cancer research and celebrity, it would be just too stupid to risk it on doping, especially towards the end of his career like they say he did.\" \u003cbr/\u003e19. Mid of cyclists in Central Park \u003cbr/\u003eFILE: Paris - 3 July 2003 \u003cbr/\u003e20. 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