Old 02-07-12, 08:43 PM
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Ummmm...partly true. They didnt "drop the doping investigation", they "dropped" their Grand Jury Investigation into alleged misuse of funds for the US Postal Team, thats what the whole thing was about that they were investigating. Here's an article on it:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/blog...?newsfeed=true

(read this part especially):

The announcement of the dropping of the case against Armstrong came from the US Attorney's office in Los Angeles, and reminded us that its primary purpose was not to prove that the rider had doped. In the US, sports-related doping is not a federal crime. The effect of doping is the issue, and in Armstrong's case an attempt was being made to discover if sponsorship money provided by a US government body had been used to subsidise a doping programme by his US Postal team. Fraudulent misuse of federal funds would have been the crime, rather than cheating in order to distort competition.
That doesnt mean he's out of the clear, nor does it mean he didnt dope...that simply means they couldnt find any supposed misuse of funds.
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