A former mechanic with Lance Armstrong's team believes the seven-time Tour de France champion risks becoming a "symbol for decades of corruption".<br /><br />  <table style="width: 101px; height: 42px" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="101" align="right" border="1">  <tbody>  <tr>  <td><img alt="" src="/imagedata/2011/jan/lance.jpg" border="0" /></td></tr>  <tr>  <td>  <p align="center"><span style="font-size: 8pt">Lance Armstrong</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table>"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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />Landis was stripped of his 2006 Tour de France title for doping.<br /><br />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. <br /><br />The US Postal company is government-funded.

A former mechanic with Lance Armstrong's team believes the seven-time Tour de France champion risks becoming a "symbol for decades of corruption"

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