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EXCLUSIVE: Tour de France should have named a winner for the years when Lance Armstrong was disqualified, says Phil Liggett – Wide World of Sports
Lingering suspicion still marked by an ‘X’
Tour de France organisers made a mistake in not declaring a winner of the event for the seven years where Lance Armstrong was stripped of his title, according to legendary commentator Phil Liggett.
Armstrong came back from cancer to take the Tour de France on a record seven consecutive occasions from 1999-2005. In 2013, after years of public denials, Armstrong confessed to doping, and his name was wiped from the record books.
However, instead of promoting the second placed finisher, as would happen…
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