Armstrong’s longtime coach says team sold Trek bikes after Discovery Channel ended sponsorship

Bruyneel: Bikes sold after Discovery deal ended

PAU, France — Lance Armstrong’s longtime coach says the Discovery Channel team sold bicycles provided by sponsor Trek Bicycle Corp. after the network ended its sponsorship of the squad.

Johan Bruyneel’s comments came in response to a recent Wall Street Journal report in which former Armstrong teammate Floyd Landis said money used from the sale of bikes at the US Postal team, another of Armstrong’s former teams, was used to help fund a doping program.

Bruyneel said “there’s been bikes sold,” but only after The Discovery Channel had ended its contract with the team’s main sponsor. Discovery Channel was the successor to US Postal.

Bruyneel said Tuesday he had “no idea” where the money went.

Armstrong and Landis rode together for three years at US Postal.