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I heard on the radio they had *10* eye-witnesses who had seen him doping during the Tour and were all willing to testify, and that was when he said forget it, I'm not going to fight this.

Crazy!

Read that and made me sad. I don't think he's guilty, but maybe I'm just naive.

Did they definitely strip him? Last I heard (at 7am) was that they were considering it. I agree w/@JessieJ017, though, it sounds like an admission of guilt to me!

Meh, I don't know....he's been dealing with this his whole life and he might just be like, "screw you guys, i'm done". After all, fighting those doping charges would be a ton of time and energy on his behalf. Maybe he'd just rather spend it enjoying life and being with his family instead of defending his honor and crap. I hope it's not true, but it doesn't necessarily read like he's guilty to me.

After the whole cancer thing it's really disappointed that he did this. You think he'd have more self-respect...

But then, knowing what I know about him, he's a very narcissistic person... so I'm not that surprised.

I agree with @MrsBlackbird . . . just because he is not (continuing) to fight back does not mean he is guilty. It's totally a double-edged sword, i.e., if you deny accusations too vehemently, it's the *thou dost protest too much* outcome, whereas if you don't deny accusations enough, then whatever it is that is being said must be true.

i'm so conflicted because i don't know what side to believe! it doesn't seem farfetched that an athlete would do this bc we've seen it time and again, but lance armstrong seems adamant that he didn't and that they are just on a witch hunt and that he's sick of it.

here's an article i read that makes me side more with armstrong, but who knows!! - http://aol.sportingnews.com/sport/story/2012-08-23/lance-armstrong-ending-fight-vs-anti-doping-agency-could-lose-tour-de-france-tit?fb_comment_id=fbc_10151049692488034_23963765_10151049920203034#f1b92ea638

I think the whole thing is garbage.

He won his first title how many years ago.....there was testing at that time.

If the sport wants to be taken more seriously, it should have been dealt with at that time, and he should not have been allowed to compete again from that point on, period.

Let alone win six more times, and years later have that all stripped away......

I don't blame him for not fighting it, it seems endless in the cycling world, and they have been trying to nab him for years, why don't they make things more cut and dry immediately following these races, during, before, whatever!

Regardless.....and this is totally my opinion because I watch sports on TV where athletes take whatever to be better and I still enjoy and watch them, that even if Lance DID dope himself up, no drug on the face of the planet replaces the amount of training he would have had to do, nor get through each leg of those races, let alone win seven flipping times. Perhaps it gave him an advantage in certain areas, who are we to judge! Its how long since then, and if it wasn't him that did it, it would have been the other winner(s) that did as well as clearly its rampant throughout the sport.

I feel awful for Lance, maybe I am naive, but I don't think all this time later and after 1, 2, 3 however many wins if he was doping bad enough and they wanted him out, it should have been done then, not all this time later, what a shame.

The USADA does not have a typical judicial process. They were clearly on a witch hunt. And the titles are not gone (yet) - the USADA does not have that authority.

@MamaG: Apparently they do.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/usada-strips-lance-armstrongs-titles-bans-him-from-cycling/2012/08/24/d6f7d382-ee04-11e1-afd6-f55f84bc0c41_story.html