UCI Archives - Teaching Kids News Readable, teachable news. Wed, 24 Oct 2012 13:31:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://teachingkidsnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/cropped-TKN_square_blk-32x32.jpg UCI Archives - Teaching Kids News 32 32 World Renowned Cyclist Lance Armstrong Cheated, Erased From Record Books https://teachingkidsnews.com/2012/10/24/1-world-renowned-cyclist-lance-armstrong-cheated-erased-from-record-books/ https://teachingkidsnews.com/2012/10/24/1-world-renowned-cyclist-lance-armstrong-cheated-erased-from-record-books/#comments Wed, 24 Oct 2012 07:09:44 +0000 https://teachingkidsnews.com/?p=7811 Lance Armstrong “has no place in cycling,” the president of the governing body for cycling said this week.

And with those words, the organization took away Armstrong’s seven Tour de France victories. They also banned him for life from competing in cycling.

Even though Armstrong came in first in those races, he used banned performance enhancing drugs to help him compete and win races.

So the International Cycling Union (UCI) is erasing him from the sport’s history books.

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