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Lance Armstrong Livestrong speech You Tube stillUS government asks to see Lance Armstrong's 1996 medical records
The American federal government has asked to see Lance Armstrong's medical records from 1996 to discover whether doctors treating his cancer knew he used performance enhancing drugs.
Court records show that government lawyers subpoenaed the Indiana University School of Medicine on 30 July to provide records of Armstrong's treatments and donations he later made to the school.
The government is hoping to recover millions of dollars paid via the US Postal Service to Armstrong's teams from 1998-2004. Penalties could reach $100m.
Armstrong's lawyers have asked a Washington DC judge to block the subpoena, claiming the release of his records would constitute a breach of privacy while noting Armstrong confessed in 2013 to doping during his seven Tour de France wins, and prior to 1996.
Armstrong's lawyers wrote: "Those documents are irrelevant to the subject matter of this litigation and the request is nothing more than an attempt to harass Armstrong, cause unnecessary delay, and needlessly increase the cost of this litigation."
The US government apparently released a flurry of subpoenas for information late in the evidence-gathering phase of the whistleblower case. The case was started by former teammate Floyd Landis, and joined by the federal government in 2013, but is not expected to go to trial before 2016.
Also subpoenaed are sponsors Nike Inc, Trek Bicycle Corp., Giro Sport Design and Discovery Communications Inc., the government's aim to discover whether any of those companies knew about Armstrong's doping. These will require a "person most knowledgeable" to be chosen by each company to discuss Armstrong's sponsorship deals and whether the companies had prior awareness of the athlete's doping.
Betsy Andreu, wife of Armstrong's former team mate Frankie Andreu, has testified that she was in the room when Armstrong told doctors he had taken performance-enhancing drugs, including steroids and EPO, a conversation Armstrong has denied memory of, as he was recovering from brain surgery.
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This is all a bit silly. What's done is done. Armstrong has been stripped of his TdF wins and publicly vilified. He is now a nobody. Back in the day those supporting him and his team giving money through sponsorship or whatever, however large or small, ALL benefitted massively from Armstrong winning, making shed loads of cash, so to now continue to hound him and those who might have known because they were treating him for cancer is a bit low and just as his defence team have stated tantamount to bullying and harassment. Let it go. The Federal Government are behaving like bullies. Why don't they go after bankers or sub prime scammers that lost billions of dollars selling properties to people who never had a hope of re-paying mortgages??! Armstrong himself is never ever going to be involved with cycling ever again. He is public sporting enemy No 1. The only people who now have a legitimate claim against him, Armstrong, are those close to him that he betrayed and dumped on such as Betsy Andrieu and Greg Lemond.