Armstrong starts training
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Staff and Wire Reports - Published: December 1, 2008
Lance Armstrong is set to start training camp this week without having subjected himself to drug tests by the anti-doping expert he teamed with and with no deal in place to post results of those tests online.
When the seven-time Tour de France winner announced his comeback earlier this year, he partnered with renowned anti-doping expert Don Catlin to set up a testing program. Catlin said he thought it was important to make those results available to the public.
Catlin told The Associated Press this weekend that while Armstrong has been placed back in the testing pools at both the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency and UCI, cycling's international body, that he has yet to test him and that a plan to document Armstrong's results online is not in place.
"We're interested in getting it going," Catlin said. "We have been chatting and are in negotiations."
Armstrong came out of retirement to ride for Astana, which was scheduled to begin its preseason camp Sunday at Tenerife, in the Canary Islands. Astana was supposed to pay for Armstrong's testing regimen.
Catlin said the details are complicated but the negotiations are ongoing.
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