His confession after years of denial followed the United States Anti-Doping Agency’s (USADA) decision to strip him of the title and accuse him of being at the centre of the “most sophisticated, professionalised and successful doping programme that sport has ever seen”.Ī report from Australia’s top criminal intelligence unit linked doping in sport with money-laundering and match-fixing after a year-long investigation.
In January, American cyclist Lance Armstrong admitted in a television interview that he had doped before each of his record seven Tour de France victories. Now that the euphoria of last year’s acclaimed London Olympics has dissipated, however, a spate of troubling stories in the first quarter of 2013 show an altogether darker and more disturbing side to a glamorous, multi-billion-dollar industry. LONDON, March 29 (Reuters) - Unprecedented levels of skill, intensity and endurance have transformed global sport into spectacular mass entertainment and handsomely rewarded its leading exponents. (Repeats story published on Friday no change to text)
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