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ARMSTRONG CLEARED OF EPO DOPING CHARGES

United States bike rider Lance Armstrong was cleared on Wednesday of drug doping charges in the 1999 Tour de France by independent Dutch investigators.

Last October cycling's governing body, the UCI, instructed Dutch lawyer Emile Vrijman to investigate the handling of urine sample testing by the French national anti-doping laboratory after the French sports newspaper L`Equipe alleged Armstrong's samples on the 1999 Tour had later tested positive.

Last August the French sports daily L'Equipe said Armstrong, who had overcome life-threatening cancer, had used the blood-boosting drug erythropoietin (EPO) in the 1999 tour.

Vrijman, who headed up the Dutch anti-doping agency for over a decade and later defended athletes who were accused of doping, said his report 'exonerates Lance Armstrong completely and absolutely in relation to alleged use of banned substances in the 1999 Tour de France.'

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Vrijman said testing procedures at the French national doping laboratory had been insufficient to label the Armstrong's sample positive.

He said the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and the French national doping lab had effectively accused Armstrong of being guilty of a doping violation with insufficient evidence.

"The report confirms my innocence," announced Armstrong, who 1st won the Tour in 1999 and retired after his record 7th consecutive victory last July.

The Thirty-four year old American bike rider said the findings showed that WADA president Dick Pound, the French laboratory and the French ministry "ignored the rules and in reality broke the law".

L'Equipe reported last Aug. that it had access to laboratory documents-reports and 6 of Armstrong's urine samples collected on the 1999 Tour showed "indisputable" traces of erythropoietin. A formal test for erythropoietin was 1st introduced at the 2000 Sydney Olympics.

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