Doping Boss Questions Armstrong’s Results

Pierre Bodry, head of the French anti-doping agency overseeing the Tour de France, has called Lance out on refusing to authorize retests of samples taken during the ’98 and ’99 Tour.

 

“If the analysis is clean it would have been very good for him. But he doesn’t want to do it and that’s his problem,” Bordry told BBC Sport.  “It was a good opportunity for him to answer positively to my proposition, because if he is clean, as he says, I am ready to follow him.” 

Armstrong would have to consent to tests on any samples more than eight years old.  His reasons include a recent independent investigation stating that samples from those years have not been properly maintained and have been compromised in numerous ways, meaning that any new test results would not provide any meaningful information.

 

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