AUSTIN, Texas - The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency said that its board has made a unanimous recommendation to present formal accusations of doping against Lance Armstrong.
What will move the case to arbitration, if Armstrong decided objection, as it indicated that it would.
USADA confirmed the recommendation of the board of directors Friday after one of its members, Clark Griffith, told AP that "can not wait" to see what the arbitration panel concluded that evidence.
Armstrong says he is innocent. His lawyer, Robert Lusk, said the decision to formally accuse Armstrong "evil and unfounded." "I" of toxic obsession with Lance Armstrong completely predictable and the USADA process in which the truth is not a priority, "said Lusk." There is some credible evidence to support the USADA claims and uninterrupted record of over 500 tests clean for over a decade and a half to refute. "
USADA says it has evidence of Armstrong was taking performance enhancing drugs while winning the Tour de France from 1999-2005. The tour begins this year on Saturday.
USADA says it has at least 10 former teammates of Armstrong and colleagues who testified against him, and blood samples from 2009 and 2010 "fully compatible" with blood doping.
Early on, Armstrong launched the attack against Griffith was with your Twitter account to say that the lawyer in Minneapolis earlier this year was accused of a crime in a case of exhibitionism.
"Wow. (A) usantidoping me an option .... This is one of three members of the review committee to study my case," Armstrong Twitter, a link to a story line in Griffith.
Griffith filed a statement of Alford June 13. Under the conviction, Griffith did not admit doing anything wrong, but acknowledged prosecutors have enough evidence for a jury to convict him. Age 24, student, said Griffith was unbuttoning his pants in front of her on a street in St. Paul.
The trial is scheduled for July 26. Griffith told the AP that he is innocent and pleaded guilty to avoid a process that could embarrass his family.
Tweet Griffith said Armstrong was "an effort to move away from the issues to be addressed by an arbitration panel. ¿OK? By insulting me, it does nothing. What am innocent of this ".
USADA has not revealed publicly for most of its evidence against Armstrong. Griffith does not discuss the case of Armstrong in the details, but said: "He really struggling .... I can not wait to hear what the arbitration panel concluded that evidence."
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