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JtAcqw*u'l^t-- J-- oy Joe t cse On Septenber 5, seven-time champion Lance Armstron$ made a The story went off like a bomb. Some observers said th= ,:-*--:s. remarkable announcement: He said that he was thinkin$ of end- was a grave one and that the case lbr Armstron$'s $ui1t \1 :: : r:. ing his retirement, at that point a mere six weeks old, and re- pelling. Others raised a flurry of criticism attacking rh- .---r joining his Discovery Channel team for a rufl at another title. and legality of leaking confidential lab results, the motn'e: -r-u Although Armstrong, 34,had previously said "only an absolute journalists and sources involved, and the aceurac), oi rhe :-: n miracle" would get him to race afain, his rationale for a return in question. As happens whenever Armstrong is accuse,l : -:- 2006, as published in theAustinAmerican-Statesman, was loud thin$, many of the reactions on both sides were characrer_.: :." and clear: "I'm thinking it's the best way to piss [the French] off." Sreater certainty than the available evidence seemed ro {-:-:r-:r. Armstron$'s motivation for wantin$ to anger the French was Jean-Marie Leblanc, the Paris-based director of the Tou:. ,.-.,l equally clear: It would be payback for the publication, on Au- the story "meticulous," addin$ later that "we were all ic,- ,-:' - g,ust 23, of a controversial story in l'd quipe, aParis-based sports Armstron$'s declarations that he had raced clean. Dick . *rr daily. Under the headline "Le Mensonge Armstron!," ("The chairman of the World Anti-Doping Agency (\\aDA r. .:: r. Armstron$ Lie"), investi$ative journalist Damien Ressiot, 41, pendent Montreal-based operation established b1, the i:_:=::-s alleged that he had proof that Armstrong had used a banned tional Olympic Committee to set testing policies ior r: .: performance-enhancing drug during his first Tour victory, in the lvorld's sports federations, rvas more circumspr-- - : 1999. "The facts are indisputable," he wrote. would not commit to a direct accusation a$ainst -\rr::.--: :u ::--r:ogra,IlFh by Harry i:ord.en LEquipe's proof, Ressiot reported, had been obtained by com- but declared that the L'Equipe report showed rhere r'-. 'i parin$, the anonymous results of urine testing conducted by very high probability of performance-enhancin!-drug 3.:- - -- France's top anti-drug lab,theLaboratoire National de D6pistage at the 1999 Tour. du Dopage (LNDD), with identifying numbers from slx separate In Armstrong's defense, Gerard Bisceglia, CEO oi L:-.- doping control 3. reports naming Armstrong---one of which could cling, American cycling's Colorado Springs, Colorad,--' -..; :,* be identified as having come from Union Cycliste Internationale $overnin$ body, called the paper's story "preposterous." .----:rrt- (UCI), pro cycling's Aigle, Switzerland-based governing body, that "this kind of years-ago testing of a single sample \\r--r, r:,r which sanctions races, licenses riders, and runs its own anti- technology is completely u4thout credibility." doping procedures. The doping lab had evaluated the urine sam- Bisce6llia's reference to "a sinf,le sample" pointed to li -:--tr-r::rr t ples, taken from Tour riders in 1999 by the UCI and frozen for fact: It's an ironclad rule of current anti-doping re$imen= '-::rr- years, five in the course of a2004451aboratory research project the auspices of WADA that a sanction against an athlete r> - u. to refine a new testing method. The tests, according to the able only when two samples from a sin$1e urine or blo,-.: ::,."-- i,v'S*Isi1 , rexmaips^ unrepentant - abouut ^t::e aJ-J"egat].ons- put lorward In n1s 0ool(. "1- l in: lt i;ffir*.,1* selr*v* a pelsop" coUICj reai..oU= 33$5,'tf[t"8fi eifi%i'f5 L'Equipe article, showed that some of the"o#,F#vStii&1T&"iH,ifi urine samples con- men-known as A and B samples-both conlirm a resuh. : *: ::u tained traces of erythropoetin (EPO), a red-blood-cell booster test in question had been conducted entirely with B samp,:> :tc first used in the late eighties to increase -. endurance. Six of the A samples from the 1999 Tour had long since been desrr =- samples that tested positive, Ressiot charged, were Armstrong's. In fact, the lab's real purpose wasn't to determine eviJ=:--: , No official liom the LNDD or any other anti-doping body had doping in a past event but to refine the test itself. The s::: *:r*l identified Armstrong; the research was not part of an1, enforce- EPO urine test used today lvorks via electrophoresis. s'hr::_ _ * '- F *+4fj, ment protocol. Consistent with standard procedure, the lab had duces a kind of electrically charged photograph rhai - .--:" ***;*u** -"' no knowledge of whose samples it was testin$, and the samples between isoforms-functionally prorer:. $uishes similar -:,1 # f were identified only by numbers. Ressiot claimed that he had the have different genetic codes. On the snapshot, the bodr . :---- fl six doping control records-including the UCI file-that linked rally occurring EPO looks different from artificial EPC). l .-,, Armstrongi to the identifying numbers on the samples, and that positive for doping, at least B0 percent of the isofor-nts .-j : l the LNDD had used the same numbers to identify the positive show markers that appear consistent with manufacrur=: ::,' samples from the LNDD test. An unnamed source or sources pro- and the sample must satisfy visual and mathematical drrr- :: I vided Ressiot with the evidence he used to make the link. was hoped that a refined test could provide a qualitati... :' .. . Ressiot's talent for collecting this type of information has tive-one that would be based not on a threshold bur , : : ,r' r prompted a separate investiflation of his methods: On October exactly, manufactured EPO isoforms look. }' 13, French authorities announced they were looking into his use The standard test, first developed in 2000 bv L\DI -: of confidential police interviervs in an April 9, 2004, L'Equipe no means lock-tight, since its subjective nature ral:.: - story about alleged doping by members of the French possibility of false positives. In fact, trvo weeks b.i :. :. Davld l{alsh, co-author of . But he makes no apologies about his reporting L'Equipe story was published, elite triathlete Rurq-: : .,.,, L.A. Confldentle.l and f,ance Almstrongrs chlef style, and in an interview withBicyclinS maSazine, he has char- got a 2001 positive EPO reading thrown out on appc"- - " - antagonlst, at home acterized his Armstron$ story as "black-and-white evidence." Flemish Disciplinary Commission when he demc,::. .:.- . - outside Cambrldge, 3ngIand. 142 OUTSIDE DECEMBTR 2OO5 -.# -iffi -'. Ttr:'., .-- J'ACCUSE CONTINUED :: J: ln the fourth legal dispute that includes thathe had.naturally produced proteins that could trig{ler a definitive answer to the question that has dogied Armstrong for I Times, English, and \\'a1:h ri: rir lcrL- doping allegations, Armstrong is the de- positive result. seven years: Did he rely on dopint, to win the Tbur de France- 1 dants in a suit seeking clAnrri!.: t, r ltircl fendant in a civil case scheduled for trial Lbquipe's story also raised questions about athletes' right to or has he been the victim of a callous and vicious witch hunt? l and an injunction to rcsirrrin th. .lcicn- as early as December 5 in Travis County be tested and judged by the rules, not by a newspaper sting that t dants from restating the ell..l-.1 -ri-cls. District Court in Austin. The ori$,inal suit wouldn't hold up under the standards of the official anti-doping IA$CE ARI'ISTROI\IG M.lrY have decided, at least for now, to S Orig,inallv schedulecl tor rr \, ,i cnrhqr' (). was filed on January 5, 2005, by Mike An- Nikon. protocol. Another criticism of the expos6 was that Armstrong shrug off the Lhquipe expos6, just as he's dismissed many jour- J 2005, trial dzrte, the case hrr: :inec hccr.r derson-Armstron$'s personal assistant Atthe l)eattol the inage- was the only cyclist to be named, despite evidence of other nalistic skirmishes in the past. Yet over the past year and ahalf postponed until earlv s|ri11i llt r11 and mechanic from December 2O02 :until riders testing positive. (T\roo and a half weeks after the LEquipe he has taken a much more a4i6iressive stance against his accus- l The ori$inal complair-rt in rh. I.r,ndon Armstrong fired him on November 16, story broke, the French newspaper Journal du Dimanche ers. While it may be true that a lawsuit "keeps a bad story alive court ancl Armstronq s s, rlie it,,r: sLrbse- 2004. Anderson alleges that Armstrong published a story naming three other cyclists whose samples forever," the former cyclist is nonetheless currently involved in quent Februarv 1S.:t)o5. rcplv tr-r the defamed him when Armstrong's agent, allegedly tested positive during the LNDD research project.) four separate cases in France, Enf,,land, and the U.S., three of clefense statemellts qivc lr stronq inciica- Bill Stapleton, told the Austin Am,erican- The UCI, which has jurisdiction in the matter because it was which he initiated. Those three target, directly or indirectly, the tiorr oi the elrs. tlr:rr .\ntt:tr',,n:ls cilllll) Stdtesmqn on December 13, 2004, that in char$e of testin$ at that.time, opened an investi$ation, but its reportinS, of a journalist who, more than any other, has earned intends to presellr ae,ainst \\'als]-r. His "we were threatened with a ha.lf-million- attention quickly diverted from the doping question to the Armstron$'s wrath for questioning his record of clean racing: solicitols u',rr l)lqtel \ rlet't v ul't t i l'e :(trt'tus dollar lawsuit," and he states in his com- sources of the leaked lab report and Armstrong's individual David Walsh, the 50-year-old Irish-born chief sportswriter for and parts of others recounted in LA. plaint that this accusation came alter he dopin$ control forrns. Their actions led to an international war The Sunctay Times otLondonand co-author, with French sports- Corlliclentiel ancl alluclccl to in rhe .Sun- refused to sign a nondisclosure agree- of words between then UCI president Hein Verbruglen and writer Pierre Ballesteq of a 372-page FrenchJanguage book, L.A. tlttt' Tinrcs stor\-. ht one passage. \\ralsh ment when he was fired. (Anderson's WADI(s Pound over each agency's role in the scandal. Confidentiel: Les Secrets de Lance,\rtrwtrang, which was pub- and llallcster u'rite that Armstron$, defamation claim in reaction to Staple- "Pound loses his mind when the press $ets near," said Ver- lished by Editions de La Martinidre three weeks before lhe 2004 Stephen Srvart, and Frankie Andreu ton's comments has since been dis- brug6len, responding to Pound's claim that Verbruftien himself Tbur de France. The book marshaled interviews and supposition (both teammates of ,\rmstrong's rvhen missed.) Then, in a subsequent court was the source of the leak Tb sort the matter out, on October 6 to make a circumstantial case that Armstrong had taken he rocle for Xlotoroler. befcire cler.cloping filing, on March 31, 2005, Anderson the UCI announced thatithad hired a new independent inves- performance-enhancing drugs, including EPO and steroids, and testicular calrcer in 1996) allcgedlv dis- added a controversial new claim: that tigator, Emile Vrijman, a Dutch lawyer and former head of Hol- covered it up. As the author himself acknowledged, the book cussecl startitlg a cloping program to he had found a box ofwhat he believed land's anti-doping agency, to look into the test results and the offered no bonclusive proof to back up its charges. help thc team; in another, thcv report were steroids in Armstron$'s Girona, that Irish-born O'Reillr', 3.1, rvho actecl Spain, apartment in early 2004, and pq,o.k. as Armstrong's chief masseuse from that this ineident had led to his dis- to mouse click. j,talBh ai0Ei iiallestpfrs hqs }aBqoblens 1998 to 2000, savs shc cleliverecl an missal. On August 4,2005, Anderson gm, unidentifiecl pills tna.t-woul.o Fe tp. attract. {ltIgatIofil Quts +ae bottle oI to him in l{av introduced yet another charge awaiting 19991 and in a third passaf,c, thev report a hearing: that Armstrong didn't com- that O'Reillv tolcl \Valsh thar the ream pensate him justly for the scope of his fi ft?"{"?ift Ffrtf:h*P*ff BB'.S3€%ilint*fi3olq$ drictor had backclatecl a prescription for job duties. oop].ng al-LcrcgEr].ons e#flt,}r3ffiE,LTFft sEr#r}#. sadclle-sore cream to explzrin how Arm- That's a lot of legal noise coming up in strong tested positive for traces of a the next six months-but which of these leaks surrorrn dins the L Dqwipe alfair. Walsh and Armstrong had tangled before. In July 2002, Affn- steroicl on the 1999 Triur's soconcl dav. cases could answer the crucial question Ultimately, the most important reaction came from Arm- strong told the Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf, "Walsh is the On Septembcr 14, 200.1, lbur da1's aftcr of whether Armstrong or Walsh played strong himself. The night before the story broke, he published a worst journalist I know. There are journalists who are willing to tiling his clefzrmzrtion suit in l-rance, Arm- fair or not? And what are the stakes for denial on his Web site, LanceArmstrong.com. "I will simply re- lie, to threaten people, and to steal in order to catch me out. strong and Taihvincl Sports, rvhich par- the parties involved? state what I have said many times," he wrote. "I have never Ethics, standards, values, acclfiacy: these are of no interest to tiallv ou,nccl the U.S. Postal Servicc team For Armstrong, the libel trial in Eng- taken performance-enhancing dru€S." He subsequently told the people like them." When L.A. ConJidentiel was released, the and nol partiallr, ou,ns the Discoverv land probably offers his best shot at vin- Associated Press, "Thereh a setup here. . . . I absolutely do not Tour champ denounced it as the lowest sort of tabloid garbage. Channel team, filecl zr larvsuir in dication. Thanks to the nuances of trust that laboratory." On August 25,he appeared on CNN's On September 70,2004, Armstrong, filed a fi2.4 million Countl, District Court aliainst S(lA Pro- Enf,lish libel law, he stands a better La.rry l{ing L'it:e and speculated that the only way he could have defamation suit in France against the Paris-based publisher, motions, a Dallas-basecl compzinv that chance of winning there than he does in tested positive was if his urine sample had been tampered with. La Martinidre, and against Walsh, Ballester, and two of their provides rish coverage for prontotional France, where libel law more closely re- "What was manipulated was the urine," he told Kin$ and co- sources, former Motorola rider Stephen Swart and former contests. The suit rr,as brought to compel sembles that of the U.S. host Bob Costas. "What was put in the urine? Who was there?" Postal soigneur (team assistant) Emma O'Reilly. A separate arbitration over SCAs thilure to pa)r Arm- "Libel law in the United Kingdom is far In the end, Armstron$ withdrew his threatto return to racin$. suit-latenconsolidated, on December 9,2004, into a sin$le strong a 55 million bonus lbr rvinning a more favorable to the plaintiff than in the Introducing the Nikon i Coolpixl recorci During a September 15 conference call with the media from trial with the La MartiniEre case-named the French news- sixth'Ibur clc France in 200-1. Ac- United States," says Michael Overing, a Pl and P2 Digrtal Cameras, the Austin, he ruled out a retum to competition. "There is no way I magazine L'Dxpress, which printed a 6,300-word excerpt on corcling to John I3ancl.v, SCA's hor-rse media lawyer who teaches Internet and t orltl's .fi rs t compact cameras would get a fur'shake," he declared, the roadside, just prior publication. counsel, the companv has so far dcclined communication law as an adjunct profes- "either'on in June 14, 2004, to the book's In the with built-in wirelcss. GD'Q the doping control, or in the lab, or in the hotel, or in the food." court filings with Le Tribunal de Grande Instance in Paris, to pa-y because president Bob Ilamman sor at the University of Southern Califor- During the La,rry KinS Live interview, Costas asked Arm- Armstrong identified 18 specific examples of defamation in said he rvantecl to invesrigatc the clairns nia. "The ri$ht to free speech is more With,\'rkor's Ex cLusive Feutu re strong whether he was considering a lawsuit against either the trook L.A. ConJid,entiel. A hearing on December 1 will macle in 1-.A. Ctnlficlentiel. limlted, and the burden of proof rests on Stx/err, Nikon owners can takc L'Equipe or its sources. He had thought atrout it, Armstrong determine a court date for the trial, which could beS,in as Armstrong's attorneys countcred that the defendant." great pictures and easily transler said, but had decided against it. "At the end of the day, when early as spring 2006. Lance's recorcl of negative dru$ tests On July 29, The Sund,ay ?imes won a them directly to their computer or during 200:l rvas you sue somebody, itjust keeps a bad story alive forever," he ar- On June 15,2004, three months before the French charges the Tour all the verifi- pre-trial appeal from the Court ofAppeal printer, wirelessl-v. You can e\,en crcate cation S(1.\ neecled see. gued. "It gives them the opportunity to say, 'Oh, we found this. were filed, Armstrong had brought a libel suit in London's civil to That case is to restore the use of a "qualified privi- a real-tu.nc slide shou uhilc .hootirg. Oh, we didthat.'It gives them more credit than they deserve." court, the High Court of Justice, Queen's Bench Division, to be clecided in closecl arbitraticxt, con- lege" defense, which had initially been As the noise from all sides died down to a low yet consistent against Walsh's employer over an article that The Sunday cluctecl b1' three independent zrrbitra- disallowed. Qualified privilege means Starting at $399.95 MSRP rumble, cycling fans around the world were left wondering Times had printed about the book that week. Despite consid- tors piched b--v SCA and Armstrong. that the paper will argue that it acted re- Visit nikondrgital.com. what had happened. Damien Ressiot's L'Equipe story, it erable precautions by the paper-the piece was written by Hearings are scheduled to begin on De- sponsibly in publishing the story-that it seemed, produced more questions than answers. deputy sports editor Alan Dnglish, not by Walsh, and it con- cernber 12, with a ruling expected in was only askin$ reasonable questions Meanwhile, however, with little scrutiny from the press or the tained only a few brief quotations from the book itself- late Januarr, 2006. that were in the public interest. In more public, alegal drama is unfolding that could finally provide a Armstrong named The Sunday PLEASE TURN To PAGE l53 DrefMErR 2*05 oUTSIDE 153 I44 OUTSIDE EICTMBER 2OO5 J'ACCUSE cently in 2004lor a story about the Irish cyclin$, not to destroy Ar:rnstron$. booster that supposedly telpa lrueeee Bruno Roussel admitted to running a himself, "Never a$ain; l'rn not goin$ to recent activity, according to Gillian jockey Kieran Fallon. According to Walsh, his pursuit of lean muscle mass, was fmdina rnine doping program for the team. Star Festi- believe it's chanSed unless I have reason Phillips, a solicitor for The Sunday For Walsh, the stakes couldn't be Armstrong evolved from his experience sample, and, just as sigFiE*{r, dp ras na riders Alex Ziille and to believe." What he saw in L999, he ?imes, the paper is wetghing the benefits higher in his looming legal battles with eovering the high-stakes cat-and-mouse busted for spikiag the qrpfe *ith ale confessed to drug use and served eight- says, didn't give him reason for hope. of asking the court to allow the new Armstron$. His le$al expenses are game between cheating athletes and ho1. After being banned ftrom comperi- and nine-month suspensions. respec- Walsh recalls that he grew suspicious allegations published in the L'Equipe being covered by the Times and La anti-doping agencies beginning in the tion for four years, she retired- tively. The magnitude of the bust led to a of the peloton's pace, which simply story to be introduced as evidence. Martinidre, and it's highly unlikely that late eighties. After Irish swimmer Walsh says he started rqrcrting on ey- disastrous 1998 Tour with further police seemed too fast. At an avera$e speed of Ifthe case does $o to trial next year, the he'll pay any damages should he lose Michelle Smith won three gold medals cling in 1980, mosd-v as m enthusiastic raids on teams during the race and sit- 25.03 miles per hour, 1999 was the financial stakes will be high. Although the English or French cases. But if his at the Olympic Games, in1996, fan. Two years later. Irish rider Sean down strikes by the racers-a severe fastest Tour to date, 0.19 miles per hour English law generally limits damages in defense fails, he'll no longer be David Walsh wrote a Sunday Times column Kelly began his string of winning four blow to cycling's credibility. faster than the record set at the contro- libel suits to 6350,000, the loser pays all Walsh, award-winnin$ sportswriter, but questioning her achievements. His ar- $reen jerseys as one ofthe Tour's best But the '98 Tour was also a water- versial'98 Tour. "How can clean racers of the winner's legal costs. According to David Walsh, convicted libeler. "I think gument, like the one later.used in L.A. sprinters of the eighties- \'alsh was frus- shed in the fight against doping. The ride faster than those known to be on Phillips, the legal expenses "could exceed if I lost, a lot of people would decide I Confidentiel, was based largely on cir- trated that Kellt's supreme athletic ac- scandal led to the creation of WADA dope?" Walsh remembers thinking. 51 million [61.75 million] each." mustn't have gor the story righr," Walsh cumstantial evidence, and in Smith's complishments s'ere largely being and the beginninf otstatdardized anti- And as the race wound through says. "The Sunday Times has been in- case Walsh was vindicated. During the *People ignored in lreland- didn't under- doping rules followed by various coun- France, Walsh says, he decided to so FAR rN THE wAR of public opinion, credibly supportive of me, and I don't preceding decade, Walsh pointed out, stand cyclin!, al.d the journalists tries, resultin$ in more sophisticated keep tabs on Armstrong. During Stage most Americans side with Armstrong, imagine that would change-I hope it Smith had never been a top competitor; weren't bothering to gp out and explain tests-the EPO urine test created in 1, his drug test showed evidence of a putting litde faith in the oharges made by wouldn't." her physique had grown more muscular it," he says. "So I took Kelly on almost as 2000 was first used in cyclin6i at the banned steroid, triamcinolone. Arm- the likes of Ressiot and Walsh. ln a tlSA To the extent that most Americans in a brief period of time; and she was part of my missiorn in life, to explain to 2001 Tour-and harsher penalties. strong subsequently produced a doc- Ioday online poll conducted after the even know who Walsh is, their impres- coached by her future husband, former people what a great athlete he was." In a The1999 Tour, said race directoiJean- tor's prescription for a topical steroid Lhquipe story broke, 72 percent of the sions are formed mostly through Arm- discus thrower Drik de Bruin, a Dutch- 1994book, Insid.e the Tour de France, Marie Leblanc at the time, would be a cream, Cemalyt, which he said he had more than 38,000 respondents agreed strong's vehement opinions. "Ljust man who had served a ban from compe- Walsh included a sl,rnpathetic portrait Tour of "renewal." Walsh says he went used to treat a saddle sore, and the with Armstronf's statement that he was hate the guy," he told writer Daniel tition for elevated testosterone levels. of a youngi phenom from Texas named to see if that would prove true. rnatter was dropped. the victim of a journalistic hit. Coyle in the 2005 book Lance Arm- Even though Smith had never tested Lance Armstron$. Armstron$'s cancer comeback and his Whatever W'alsh is, he's no Fleet Street strong's Wa,r, addins that Walsh is a positive, Walsh refused to believe she Then, in 1998, just before the Tour "wHoEVER WENT BACK to the Ttrur after Ttrur victory that year were widely cele- hack. For nine years, he's writtenlor The "fucking little troll." was clean. started with a historic visit to Ireland, 1998 had to decide whether it was the brated as an inspiring triumph, but Sunda,y ?imes, a respected paper with a For his part, Walsh declines to respond "That she would become a woman soigneur Willy Voet was stopped same drug-filled race it had been the pre- Walsh says he remained wary. circulation of 1.3 million. He's won three to Armstrong's bitter personal criticism who could win three gold medals was just by French customs police on a country vious year, or a lesser drug-filled race," "Cycling returned in 7999 with a new British Press Awards-a prominent in kind, and he displays no outward signs bizarre," says Walsh. road near the France- border. Walsh recalls. "If you didn't ask that, you champion, and the new champion was award in British newspaper journalism- of animus toward the Tour champion. His In 1998, Smith did test positive: Evi- Among other drugs in his car were 234 were just being willfully dishonest." He heralded as a great savior of the sport, for Sports Writer of the Year, most re- cause, he says, is to root out corruption in dence of androstenedione, a testosterone doses of EPO. Voet and team director says his approach to the race was to tell the guy who showed you that cycling

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You need to make sure that we're no Even so, anti-dopin$ authorities have dard of proof was impossible to meet. had some team and help raise funds to support the Fred Hutchinson Cancer longer glorifying a false god." success since the Festina Sources, they-claim, refused to come In 2000, as Armstrong and the U.S. scandal, but it seems lhat the majority forward, often citing their fear that Arm- Research Center's mission to find a cure for breast cancer. Postal team notched their second con- of busts have been the result of police stronS, would retaliate and damage their secutive Tour win, Walsh continued to investigations, not drug, testing. Millar careers and reputations. "People refused investigate. On July B, 2001, the second was caugiht when police found traces of out of what could happen to them," day of that year's Tour, The Sunday EPO in syringes in his Biarritz, France, claims Ballester. ftmes published a story by Walsh titled apartment. He later admitted that, even Still, setting aside those allegations in "Saddled with Suspicion." It revealed though.he had tested negative, he'd won the book that can be dismissed as that Arrnstrong had been working with a his world championship while on EPO. purely speculative-such as Walsh and controversial Italian sports physician In October 2000, France 3 television Ballester's tenuous attempt to raise the aired a report showin$ a doctor for possibility that Armstrong l'1t. named . Ferrari had been developed investigated for doping offenses before, Armstrong's then U.S. Postal Service cancer because of his alleged doping June but never prosecuted. In 2001, the pub- team allegedly discarding medical pro$ram-the authors offer several lic prosecutor in Ferrara, Italy, named waste-including packagin$, for Ac- charges that stand out. One is an anec- |!lt. Rainier l'lt. Adamr Ferrari in a recommended trial with tovegin, a suspected blood-oxygen dote recounted by New Zealander July u-23, July zSjo others suspected of helping more than booster-into a roadside dumpster. In Stephen Swart, in which he, Arm- L.A. Confidentiel,Walsh treats the inci- strong, Frankie Andreu, and others Rainier E brils and Kr|manjaroaro gllded byAipineAscents 400 athletes dope between 7992 and dent as credible. se r$ u0dar fi incidental use 0emil issued lly 1998. But in the end, Ferrari was never allegedly discussed, in the spring of ee guided by Ponknd put on trial. By the time Walsh began his The French police opened an investi- 1995, startin{, a doping program for research, how€ver, Ferrari was a$ain gation based on the France 3 allegations the Motorola team that would include under investigation, this time by the but ended it 21 months later for lack the use of EPO. According to the book, Italian criminal court in Bologna for the of conclusive evidence. In November Swart said, "Lance fully participated newly created charge of sporting fraud 2002, after the French investiS,ation in the discussion and his opinion was and medical malpractice. closed, Walsh contacted Ballester to to go with it.'' Armstrong has always firmly rejected discuss collaborating on what would In another significant allegation, Walsh the idea that his relationship with Fer- become L.A. ConJidentiel . By that and Ballester describe a scene that al- rari established guilt by association. In time, Ballester says, he had left his job legedly took place in an 2001, when asked about Ferrari, Arm- as a sportswriter tor L'Equipe, dis$,usted hospital room in October 1996. They stron$ issued a press release statin$ that by what he saw as cycling's unwilling- write that a number of Armstron$'s "[Ferrari's] primary role has always been ness to change its doping culture. He friends and acquaintances were visiting was limited. Since Chris [Carmichael, Ar:rn- working as a freelance editor him after the surgery to remove his can- strong's Colorado Springs-based coach] when he agreed to join Walsh. cer: Frankie Andreu and his future wife, cannot be in Europe on an ongoinSi basis, "As journalists, we have the mission to Betsy; Chris Carmichael and his wife, Michele does my physiological testing say something else," says Ballester. "The Paige; Armstrong's girlfriend Lisa Shiels; and provides Chris with that data on a objective of LA. ConJidentiel is showing and St6phanie Mcllvain, a representative regular basis." the other part of Armstrong. Not only the from Armstron$'s sun$lasses sponsor, In his 2003 bookDveryt Second,Counts, clear side, but the dark side, because it's Oakley. The authors allege that Arm- Armstronf,, further characterizes his part of the truth. It's about honesty." strong, in a conversation with his doc- Thermal tttSUtATlON for outerwear, dealin$,s with Ferrari: "He was one of the tors that took place in the room, best minds in cyclin$, and sometimes I FROM JANUARY 2oo3 toMay2004,Walsh admitted that he had used EPO and gloves, footwear, and sleeping bags. and Ballester tracked down nearly every consulted him." human $rowth hormone-a natural hor- Primaloft L.!SUIATION is as warm as In October 2004, Ferrari was con- piece of information that could possibly mone that, when taken in sufficient down, compressible, breathable, and victed in the Bologna case for unlawful yield a connection between Armstrong doses, can stimulate lean muscle $rowth ; SUMMffi 20O6 distribution of medicines-i.e., writing and the topic of doping. They spoke with and aid in recovery. is proven to repel water better than any too many preseriptions-and sporting former teammates, team directors, and Other serious allegations come from other synthetic or natural lL\LSULATION. team doctors. They also interviewed fraud. After the decision, Armstrong said O'Reilly, the Postal team's head Go to www.primaloft.com. (lil'tB sports physiologists I0 nfiilT BRIAIT fillfffi. he had severed his professional relation- to learn about how soigneur in 1999 and 2000, who had ship with him. performance-enhancinf,, dnr$s work and kept a diary of her time with the team. spoke PHT1TIITID BT fiffilAT As a result of the Festina bust in 1998, with confessed dopers, like When Outside reached her by phone, the nature of doping in the cycling world France's Jerome Chiotti, to find out how O'Reilly declined to comment on this changed. Instead of systematic drug pro- drugs are used by cyclists. story, but in L.A. Confidentiel she is Walsh says that he and Ballester inter- quoted as saying, $rams set up by teams, it was now up to that in May 1999 she individual riders to start and ll:.anage viewed more than 55 people in the was given a box of unlabeled pills by their own personal programs and main- course of researchinS, the book. "It Johan Bruyneel, Postal's team director, tain their silence. should have been 255," admits Walsh, and asked to drive across the border of r 2USo "I only know about me," said Britain's "but we didn't have time. We both still Spain and France and deliver them to (-ry had full-time jobs." Armstrong in a McDonald's parking lot. * jdfl -"--t t 2003 time-trial world champion, David rewAx Cafes ,' " ----:; The end result is a sprawling collection She also claimed in the book that she : - *':*- ;, " "'- :;-- 11: lnsulation Technology

roos lll9AlfY rr kozen at the time of Times they granted Mr. Armstron$ the ri$ht ,J,4g-qu,lE- to attractlitigation. And it hasn't helped time if I'd said yes, she would have been begunafterthe2tt, - - -- .-l we are lthe to answer and that, before they went to helped Armstrong apply makeup to that the book has only been published absolutely screwed." trp defirritive er irl<:t - - stoq/sl publication," says Phillips. the papers, testi- conceal arm bruises caused by sy- in French. There's no En!,lish edition of Walsh claims that two months after alwelslesslilicl. tlrr,: .- - .' ----- Court documents from the June 15, print, the sum of all of any kind ringes, and she talks in the book of dis- L.A. Confidentiel; to date, according to O'Reilly completed the unpaid interview rvhere thev hil..l. lr. - 2OO4, complaint su$]est that Armstron$'s mony, and documents lead them with faith to be- carding syringes and other medical Walsh, 14 Dnglish-language publishers with him in early July 2003, she called to ln the enrl. rlt. ,11:.-. . --- .. .-.:- solicitors will attack Walsh's "personal would f,ood ' they wrote is true, ar.d that waste on the team's behalf. O'Reilly al- have declined to publish it. The reasons protest that the book would be a success L..\. CortJiclcttticl :.,'-...... - '. ,.'.r eampaifn" against Armstron$ to insin- lieve what 'lJallester - performance- they wrote it in a prudent way." Ieges she was party to the forgin$ of a seem to vary: poor marketability due based largely on her interview, while her and h;rJ :.,..- - - - -' ..':ii. rate that he has used However, de Montbrial has no interest backdated medical certificate that ex- to the hero status of Armstron$ in only reward would be Armstrong's wrath. evidence of chcrrt-r-. ' :-' :-,. rii:h to enhancing drugs without any evidence to in attempting to prove Armstron$ doped. plained Armstrongi's positive urine test America; outdated char$es-some now (Walsh says he's made around 855,000 publish just beior. ::-.. i = J ur? \\is support his accusations. job, he says, is only to show that the for steroids, and she also alleges that, more than ten years old; and the ever- from the book.) According to Walsh, he rhe circtttn:t;rrrt:.,. . .:-'.-, ::1(\'ffs- Armstron$'s solicitors also accuse His attached to it after that incident, Armstrong told her, present threat of lawsuits. (A bootleg told Ballester about the situation and sentecl strouq c1r,,u::: - r,:,::in- the clam- the paper of usin$ the article to pro- book and the defendants guilty defamation. "Emma, now you know enough to brin$ English version has circulated for then paid O'Reilly approximately gB,B50 age to ]\flnstrolri s r.:',::i.:i, ,I1'.- mote sales ol L.A. ConJidentiel atd are not of attorney in Dallas, me down." months among bike-racing fans, but on September'19,2003. Both the h(i(-,li: :l:u:-.utirs atrtl its seri- provide The Sundcty Times with a Meanwhile, SCA's Bandy, says he plans to be- L.A. Confidentiel also provides an ac- it's a crude translation.) "At the time I made what I saw as a ous tlzrrvs .1rc rlh, rii t' , be contested in scoop without providin$ adequate time John $o yond the allegations in L.A. ConJiden- count of an August 2001 telephone con- Walsh says that he and Ballester moral judgment," Walsh says. "It was an c1,clin$'s biqq.st rttu.1 tic,ht er-er. Thc legal for Armstrong to respond before the and investigate anyone who mi$ht versation between ArmstronS, and wanted to give people a full portrait of acknowledglrnent of what she was going to arena is r-en- diii.rcnt ilom the journalis- story was printed. tiel anythinS, connectin$ Armstrong three-time Tour winner Greg LeMond, Armstrong, so they included informa- go through. But the bottom line is: Was tic one. For c,ne thinq,. sources have to The French case against La Mat- know doping. who had been publicly critical of Arm- tion that was unrelated to the question she telling the truth? There is zero doubt talk truthitrLlv or risk perjur,-v. Both sides tiniEre differs from the Sundw Times to a policy for strong's ties to Ferrari. The alleged con- of dopin$. For instance, former team- about that for me." Still, no matter what are facin.Q ellormous uerv risks. If the larv trial because O'Reilly and Swart are also SCA had underwritten parent company of versation was recounted by LeMond's mate C6dric Vasseur of France, aveter- rationale Walsh uses to justify this ex- goes \\ alsh's \\'av. Armstron$ may be re- named as defendants. In addition, Tailwind Sports, the team, lor back-to-back wins wife, Kathy, who, according to Walsh, an cyclist who raced with the Postal change of money, it can be assumed that vealed as the central ligure in a multi- French libel law is more in line with Armstrong,h ar,d2002 Tburs, which paid wrote down her memory of the exchan$e team in the 2000 Tour, complains about Armstron$'s lawyers rvill characterize this national. multi-miilion-dollar scheme to U.S. law, with its stricter standard for in the 2001 million, and for Armstron$'s immediately aJter the call. never havin$ received his bonus as checkbook journalism and agiressively cheat ancl lie his lva--v to becoming the what constitutes libel and the require- out #1.5 in 2003, when the insurer paid The book describes how the LeMonds money; Walsh and Ballester allege that use this revelation to discredit the book. Tour cle Frernce's Srandest champion. But ment that the plaintiff (Armstron$) and fifth win, million. The disputed third payout, were getting into their car when an Armstron6i may have fixed a U.S. race Given their reliance on a lar!,ely cir- if everl'thing $oes Armstron$'s rvay, his his chief lawyer, Nice-based Donald #3 afitated Armstrong called Greg to com- series in 1993 to win a 81 million cumstantial argument, Walsh and accusers. belroncl rvhatever other penalt1, Manasse, prove that he was defamed. for fl5 million, covered Armstrongls his sixth win. plain about his comments. Kathy says bonus; and there's a lengthy section de- Ballester weaken their case by ignoring they'pa,-v, rvill become the accused in the La Martinidre's defense lawyer, Paris- bonus for she overheard Armstrong challenge her tailint, Armstrong's failed contract with the circumstantial evidence in Arm- court of public opinion. based Thibault de Montbrial, will try to Through Tailwind Sports, Armstron$ push payment dispute into husband to say that he had never taken the Cofidis team. strong's favor-evidence such as seven prove "good faith." "This is defined as sued to the as the policy specified. And EPO during his professional career. Aside from the book's broad and me- years of negative drug tests, both in and WITH ARMSTRONG,S TRIAL dAtCS ANd hCAT. proving in court that the authors made arbitration, case is in arbitration- "What makes you say I've taken anderin$ focus, at least some of the cen- out of competition. They fail to cite other ings approilching, hints of the tactics that a serious investi$ation," he says, "that although the EPO?" Greg replied. tral allegations have faults as well. In arguments that support his clean racing u,ill bc deplo-ved are beginning to cmerge. According to the book, Kathy's mem- their depiction of the 1996 hospital record, includinS a dominant roster of It alrcad--v seerns clezrr that the larv1'ers ory of Armstrong's response was "Go scene, Walsh and Ballester provide no support riders on the Postal and Discov- lined up against Armstron$ are going to on, everyone takes EPO." source for the charge that Armstron$, ad- ery teams with one singular goal: to help subpocna witnesses in an attempt not Then the book details the background mitted to his doctors that he had used Armstrong win. Nor do they acknowl- .iust to defend existing reporting but to of Michele Ferrari to make the case that EPO and human trowth hormone. The edge the brilliant race tactics of Johan gencrate nerv evidence and testimonl,. Armstrong's relationship with him should conversation between LeMond and Bruyneel. Durin$ their run, no team Up until the L'Ecluipe storl' rvas pub- invite people to entertain suspicions Armstrong was relayed secondhand to came close to their effectiveness. lislred, The Sunday Tintes' delense about Armstrong. Walsh quotes the Feb- Walsh by LeMond's wife. Kathy, not by As for Ballester's point that people fear strateg,y rvas $oing to likel,v involve otr- ruary 2002 testimony ol ltalian pro cy- Greg himself. (However, when asked by Armstron$, it's notable that Armstron$ taining rvitness statements in support clist Filippo Simeoni, a client of Ferrari's, Outside to corroborate the account of has never previously sued anyone who of \\ralsh and L.A. ConJidentiel f.rom during the criminal court proceedings this interaction with Armstrong, Greg has made alle$ations or raised suspicions O'Reillv and other sources-used on thatled to Ferrari's conviction in 2004. LeMond asserted, "What my wife said to about doping. and off the record-as zr wa)' to prove The book describes Simeoni, an ailmitted David was absolutely true.") The circumstantial nature of the book's that there were reasonable grounds to doper, explaining how, in 1996 and 7997, As for O'Reilly, her allegations also alle$ations haven't gone unnoticed by suspect Armstrong had cloped. But in response to the nerv French allega- he had taken EPO based on Ferrari's in- seem at least removed from bein$ others in the press. James Startt, Bicy- mpg" 1s structions, and how they later discussed proof. Walsh says in the book that she cling's Paris-based correspondent, says tions, the paper's solicitors have be$un 22/26 adding testosterone to his pro6iram. told him she had never personally admin- the book offers comments that don't ap- to ree\.aluate their str,Itegy. Accorclin$ lmpressive. Myself, On the whole, because Walsh and istered doping products at Postal, nor had pear to be supported by the available ev- to Gillian Phillips, the papcr's house good on the L'Equipe slor,v could Irm not too Ballester's evidence in the book is cir- she seen Armstron$ take any known idence. "A few times in the book, I felt solicitor, hlghway. cumstantial, no single piece of it has the banned substances. And, the book goes like [Walsh] inferred things that could be help the paper u,in its case b1' shorving the power of truth. But Walsh believes the on to say, she never inquired about the taken differently," he says. "People were that it was actirtg, responsiblv. "\Ye sheer volume of su$$estive evidence nature of the pills she drove across the ready to say, 'That's it-proof positive,' don't have to sholv he clid tahc dru$s," makes it convincin$. Spanish-French border in 7999. but it wasn't readily clear." she asserts, "but that there are a suffi- "I find it hard to believe a person could It's also a fact that Walsh has said in Walsh himself has admitted that "the cient number of incidcnts to give rise go to our book with an open mind about the past that he did not pay Emma book falls short of a 'smoking gun."' to this suspicion." Lance Armstron6i," he says, "and come O'Reilly, when he aclatally did. Walsh re- When asked why he and Ballester hadn't \Vhether the ?fnr,es can enter the away still believing in him." cently admitted in an interview with waited for decisive proof before going L'Equipe allegations into the trial is not a elenentandf rlends . com Outside that he had paid O'Reilly for her into print, he says, "To be honest, I didn't given, and if the UCI's investi$ation drags WHETHER OR NOT READERS believeATm- story, despite assuring VelnNews in June think we were going to get that kind of on, the ultimate credibilitv o f theL'Equipe *Based upon 2006 cfty/:n'fr EPA estlBtes. Use for. conparlson- purposes on1y. yary. 2lYD nodel sho'trn. @ 2005 Anerlca,1 Honda Motor Co., Inc.- strong after reading L.A. Confidentiel, 2004 thathe had not. His explanation for evidence." I{e points out that the 21,- expos6 could remain in limbo. "It's a diifi- Actual nlleagi nalr EX-P the book has problems that would seem telling this falsehood is that "I felt at the month investigation by French police, cult [strategy], because to a large extent

2OO5 OUTSIDE I59 154 OUTSTDE nrerMstR :005 }ECEMBTR :.. <; under oath about whether or not he hinge on evidence unearthed by these meaning it ri'ill hc lr.:.:--- .- - . :- - .: used performance-enhancin$ dru$s, trials. tr'orbes ranked him as the third- defense lawyers in the defamation and most-powerful athlete in the world in Texas lair :rill ;,;.- -- libel suits doubt it will happen, saying 2005, behind only Tiger Woods and could face psrjLlr'. .: .:-=: : : t:il5e that they'll probably rely only on Arm- Shaquille O'Neal, with earnings of ap- testimoll\'. "\\. u . - -. .'.* : i(t :ll strong's testimony taken in external proximately #28 million a year. Sports what people realll knorr--at the depositions. John Bandy, of SCA Promo- Illustro,ted has estimated that more facts," Bandy sa1's- ' $-e'll subpoena tions, says he's doesn't know yet whether than fl77 million of his earnings come sources for the bool but I wouidn't he will question Armstrong. through endorsements, including his want tO restrlU: t , ;-c,,|1e in the post-retirement agreements with Nike, book. \\'e ntrl\' \ cri- r, r-, lcllos€ people KNOWING WHAT,S AT STAKE, there are four Oakley, and Trek. ' \\'ho \\crLn t i:.: -.' ., l, possible outcomes to Armstron$'s le$al Across the Atlantic, David Walsh re- Thougl-r thcr. i,r.i bc pienn' of testi- maneuvers: His lawsuits backfire, and, mains both unrepentant and unruffled, monv ir-r thtr :(--\;lrse. rlon't expect to through the trials, perhaps more allega- despite the legal peril he's facin!, al- hear anr- r,i ii. l-rirlier this vear, Arm- tions of doping come forward; Arm- though he admits to feeling surprised stronS s las'.".1. ohtained a protective strong loses on legal technicalities, and and frustrated by the relatively limited order that prr,hibits those involved from no further allegations come to light; he fallout lrom the L'Equipe alleSations in discussinq detarls of the case, possibi-_r, wins on narrow legal grounds, but new the U.S. "What will it take for Ameri- even after the r-erc1ict. alle$ations arise in testimony; or, in the cans to be$in to honestly examine Greg Le\Ioncl and Betsv Andreu last scenario, Armstron$ conclusively Armstron$'s career?" he asks. have both rold Outsicle that the)r've proves that he was libeled and is totally For his part, will wait becn subpoenaed in the SCA case and vindicated, and he can put these suspi- to address his main accusers in court. "I asked to testif--v in the Sunday Times cions to rest and move on to the next have no interest in commentin$ on the case. Another source for \Valsh's book chapter in his life, as a newlywed, a type ofjournalism practiced by David rvho acknorvledges that he's been sub- father, and a frtdraiser for cancer- Walsh and Pierre Ballester," he told Out- poenaed is Frankie Andreu. It's [rore research programs. sid€. "I will say that I am looking forward than likel-v that he'11 be questioned For Armstron$, his reputation, his to the upcoming trials, where I am fully about allegations of ar-rv doping pro- earnin$ power, and the future success of confident we will win." O grams in place u.hen he rode for XIo- the Lance Armstron$ Foundation, torola and Postal. which has raised more than fl85 mil- JOE LINDSEY is a contributor" to As lor calling on Armstrong to testif,r' lion on behalf of cancer survivors, may Bicycting. r

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