In 1996, he was diagnosed with a potentially fatal metastatic testicular cancer. After his recovery, he founded the Livestrong Foundation to assist other cancer survivors.
Returning to cycling in 1998, he was a member of the US Postal/Discovery team between 1998 and 2005, when he won his Tour de France titles, as well as a bronze medal in the 2000 Summer Olympics.
The disgraced former cyclist agreed to pay the US government $5m and $1.65m to Landis after being accused of “actively concealing the [US Postal Service] team’s violations of the agreements’ anti-doping provisions”
Cyclingnews have revealed that Armstrong will have any accreditation request rejected due to his lifetime ban from cycling for doping, which saw him stripped of all seven Tour de France titles in what remains the biggest scandal ever seen in cycling.
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