A former mechanic with Lance Armstrong's team believes the seven-time Tour de France champion risks becoming a symbol for decades of corruption
A former mechanic with Lance Armstrong's team believes the seven-time Tour de France champion risks becoming a "symbol for decades of corruption".
"Whatever happens, happens. But what he may become is a symbol for decades of corruption in professional cycling," Mike Anderson said in an interview with New Zealand broadsheet the Sunday Star-Times when asked about the launching of a federal investigation into Armstrong. The American cyclist ended his international cycling career in Adelaide yesterday when he completed the Tour Down Under stage race.
Anderson is one of several employees or teammates to speak out against Armstrong, who is the subject of a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) probe in the United States following allegations of doping levelled by former teammate Floyd Landis.
Landis was stripped of his 2006 Tour de France title for doping.
The FDA is probing whether Armstrong and his US Postal team, with whom he won six of his seven yellow jerseys in 1999-2004, misused public funds to cheat their way to success.
The US Postal company is government-funded.
