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"Sickened" UCI strips Armstrong of Tour wins

GENEVA - Lance Armstrong was stripped of his seven Tour de France titles and banned for life on Monday after the International Cycling Union (UCI) ratified the United States Anti-Doping Agency's (USADA) sanctions against the American. | Video

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