France\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s anti-doping agency said Friday it will not seek sanctions against cyclist Lance Armstrong over a dispute with a drug tester.<\/p>\n
The agency said in a statement Friday that it \u00e2\u20ac\u0153decided to take into consideration the athlete\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s written explanations\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and will not open disciplinary procedures.<\/p>\n
At issue was a 20-minute delay when Armstrong said a drug tester who showed up on March 17 to collect blood, urine and hair samples agreed to let him shower while the American rider\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s assistants checked the tester\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s credentials…\u00c2\u00a0 Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" France\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s anti-doping agency said Friday it will not seek sanctions against cyclist Lance Armstrong over a dispute with a drug tester. The agency said in a statement Friday that it \u00e2\u20ac\u0153decided to take into consideration the athlete\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s written explanations\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and will not open disciplinary procedures. At issue was a 20-minute delay when Armstrong said a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-road-bike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10281"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10283,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10281\/revisions\/10283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}