“..At the age of 30, New Zealander Stephen Swart walked away from cycling great Lance Armstrong – and what was to become the biggest doping conspiracy in sports history..”

“..He chose to quit professional cycling and its inherent doping programmes – and later spoke out against that culture and Armstrong’s role in the scandal.

Now that the United States Anti-Doping Agency has issued a damning report showing Armstrong and his professional teams were at the heart of the doping conspiracy when he won the Tour de France seven years in a row – Mr Swart to some extent feels vindicated after previously being attacked by those who denied wrongdoing.

The former Morrinsville man now lives in Hamilton where he works with his brother Jack – also a former national cycling representative.

Mr Swart is also one of 11 former team-mates of Armstrong’s who gave evidence to the USADA leading up to the report.

He said he had spoken out originally to expose the drug-taking culture of professional cycling -

- rather than to single out Armstrong…”

(cont..)

go to source/story>>>

Stephen Swart Feels Vindicated By Report On Lance… | Stuff.co.nz.

This entry was posted in international politics/culture/ stuff, nz politics/culture/stuff. Bookmark the permalink.

Leave a Reply