Lance ‘not bothered’ by monitoring

Saturday, July 04, 2009

LANCE ARMSTRONG, pictured, insists he is not bothered by being "particularly monitored" by anti-doping controls at the Tour de France.

French sports minister Roselyne Bachelot said yesterday an especially close eye would be kept on the Astana rider.

"The (doping) controls will be multiplied, and I tell Lance Armstrong that he will be particularly, particularly, particularly monitored," Bachelot said. "There needs to be a really very, very active fight against doping. The organisers know how much a positive doping test could have harmful effects."

The seven-time Tour winner is, though, unconcerned.

"No worries, it’s been this way for 10 years. I have nothing to hide," Armstrong said on his Twitter page.

This story appeared in the printed version of the Irish Examiner Saturday, July 04, 2009