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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