Sep 13, 2006, 17:02 GMT
New York - Seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong has blasted an article in Tuesday's New York Times in which he is linked with doping.
The article quoted former team-mate Frankie Andreu, as well as an unnamed former team-mate as admitting that they had been involved in blood doping.
Armstrong writes on his website that the article was: 'A blatent attempt to associate me and implicate me with a former teammate's admission that he took banned substances during his career.
'The recycled suggestion that former teammates took EPO with my knowledge or at my request is categorically false and distorted sensationalism.'
Armstrong, who has been involved in several doping controversies but was never banned, said that his victories were untainted.
'Despite the fact I am the most tested athlete in the history of sport, despite my numerous court victories and undefeated court record, and despite the fact that I raced and won clean and fair, my accomplishments and name attract attention and remain frequent targets of distortion and sensationalism.'
'The allegations re-run today are not new and I defeated them in court. The implication that drug use was common knowledge on the Postal team is untrue.
'In a recent arbitration in Dallas, I proved I never used, asked or encouraged anyone to take drugs. I had over 600 team-related colleagues during my cycling career; of those, only 2 testified for the accusers and none of those involved any proof that I used, or requested others to use, performance enhancing drugs or that drug use was a part of the team.'
Armstrong said the article also failed to state that Andreu had said that he had no knowledge that Armstrong ever took any performance enhancing substance.
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