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Lance now in jersey storm

Updated on: 12 November,2012 09:05 AM IST  | 
AFP |

Disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong posed provocatively yesterday with his framed seven Tour de France winners jerseys, tweeting a picture of him in his Austin home - unleashing dozens of comments for and against the Texan

Lance now in jersey storm

“Back in Austin and just layin’ around,” said Armstrong to accompany the picture of him lying on a sofa below the jerseys a month after the US doping authorities stripped him of his seven titles and wiped his career record.



Armstrong


By mid-Sunday more than 100,000 subscribers to the social media site had seen the picture - but opinions posted to Twitter were diverse with some tweeters blasting the Texan as a cheat while others still maintain their faith in the cancer survivor.


On October 23, Armstrong removed from his Twitter biography a line referring to his seven Tour crowns after the US Anti-Doping Agency scrapped his career race record back to 1998 on publication of a lengthy report into doping allegations.

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