Armstrong denies role in 300K dollars plot on false news on LeMond
By ANIMonday, July 19, 2010
NEW YORK - Seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong has denied a claim by three-time Tour de France champion Greg LeMond that Armstrong tried to pay someone 300,000 dollars to say LeMond used the banned endurance-boosting drug EPO.
LeMond, who was served with a grand jury subpoena last week, told a reporter from the German newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung that Armstrong tried to implicate him in drug use because he perceived LeMond as an enemy for suspecting Armstrong of doping.
The New York Daily News quoted Armstrong as saying that he was aware of the accusation and dismissed it as just another episode in a long-running feud between the two men.
“That’s absolutely nonsense - $300,000?” Armstrong said. “Come on. I know (about the report). But he says a lot.”
Armstrong and the leadership of his storied cycling teams are the focus of a federal grand jury’s inquiry into possible drug and fraud crimes. (ANI)
