Former Armstrong team manager, doctor get lifetime cycling bans


  • Cycling
  • Thursday, 25 Oct 2018

FILE PHOTO - Radioshack Nissan Trek team manager Johan Bruyneel attends the team's official presentation in Esch-sur-Alzette, January 6, 2012. REUTERS/Thierry Roge

(Reuters) - Lance Armstrong's former cycling team manager Johan Bruyneel was banned from cycling for life on Wednesday after a successful appeal by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).

The 54-year-old Belgian was initially banned for 10 years in 2014 by the American Arbitration Association North American Court of Arbitration for Sport (AAA) for helping orchestrate an elaborate doping programme that helped Armstrong to seven Tour de France titles.

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