Persuasive Essay On Lance Armstrong

The notorious seven time tour de France winner Lance Armstrong who doped throughout his seven wins in cycling’s most notable and prestigious event admitted that if he could start his cycling career over again he would still dope (reference 1). Possibly the biggest case of doping in not only the sport of cycling but world sport he had repeatedly said during his career that he did not take performance enhancing drugs but one of his most famous quotes that makes him look foolish now is “I have never had a single positive doping test, and I do not take performance- enhancing drugs” (reference 2) this was in part due to his team covering up positive doping tests and paying off or threatening testers , Armstrong had many quotes like this throughout …show more content…
Corticosteroids are only banned among cyclists and other athletes who don’t have a medical need for it. The USADA sanctioned Lance Armstrong under five different violations, the use or tempted use of the substances I mentioned above, possession of these substances as well as transfusion equipment and masking agents, trafficking of these substances, administration of these substances and assisting, aiding, encouraging, abetting and covering up anti-doping rule violations (reference 5). Due to these sanctions Lance Armstrong was stripped of his seven tour de France titles and was given a life time ban from professional cycling. Although Lance Armstrong is not the only cyclist to ever use drugs to enhance performance in cycling, he is the most notable one due to the amount of times he had won the tour de France in succession, in fact since 1980 of the 33 winners who won the tour de France 17 of the winners either tested positive, been sanctioned or admitted to doping (reference