# Lance Armstrong's Ill-Gotten Gains **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [August 24, 2012, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lance-armstrongs-ill-gotten-gains/632455 "2012-08-24T04:30:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Junkyard\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3be4f8/32.png) [@Junkyard\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Junkyard_Cat)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2012, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lance-armstrongs-ill-gotten-gains/632455/1 "2012-08-24T04:30:20Z")
As Lance Armstrong has relinquished his fight against doping allegations, he has been stripped of his titles. Will he also obliged to return the moneys associated with winning these races? ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2012, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lance-armstrongs-ill-gotten-gains/632455/2 "2012-08-24T04:45:06Z")
> [@Junkyard\_Cat](#): > > As Lance Armstrong has relinquished his fight against doping allegations, he has been stripped of his titles. Will he also obliged to return the moneys associated with winning these races? Cite? ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2012, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lance-armstrongs-ill-gotten-gains/632455/3 "2012-08-24T04:48:32Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > Cite? [http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/24/sports/cycling/lance-armstrong-ends-fight-against-doping-charges-losing-his-7-tour-de-france-titles.html?pagewanted=all](http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/24/sports/cycling/lance-armstrong-ends-fight-against-doping-charges-losing-his-7-tour-de-france-titles.html?pagewanted=all) Moving to the Game Room from GQ. Colibri General Questions Moderator ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2012, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lance-armstrongs-ill-gotten-gains/632455/4 "2012-08-24T05:28:44Z")
From the article: > [@](#): > > Armstrong’s decision, according to the World Anti-Doping Code, means he will be stripped of his seven Tour titles, the bronze medal he won at the 2000 Olympics and **all other titles, awards and money he won from August 1998 forward.** ---
**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2012, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lance-armstrongs-ill-gotten-gains/632455/5 "2012-08-24T05:54:32Z")
He’s still a world champion. So he has that. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2012, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lance-armstrongs-ill-gotten-gains/632455/6 "2012-08-24T15:46:04Z")
> [@Dag\_Otto](#): > > He’s still a world champion. So he has that. Is he? How is that determined in cycling? ---
**Author:** ![Cumbrian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ce7236/32.png) [@Cumbrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cumbrian)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2012, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lance-armstrongs-ill-gotten-gains/632455/7 "2012-08-24T15:47:32Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Is he? How is that determined in cycling? You win the World Championships - either in the single stage race or the Time Trial. I think I am right in saying that Lance became World Champion before his cancer diagnosis and his tests from that era are not part of the investigation that USADA have undertaken. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2012, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lance-armstrongs-ill-gotten-gains/632455/8 "2012-08-24T16:18:19Z")
> [@Cumbrian](#): > > You win the World Championships - either in the single stage race or the Time Trial. I think I am right in saying that Lance became World Champion before his cancer diagnosis and his tests from that era are not part of the investigation that USADA have undertaken. Oh, ok. I did not know that. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2012, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lance-armstrongs-ill-gotten-gains/632455/9 "2012-08-24T16:28:42Z")
How does he un-fuck Sheryl Crow? ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2012, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lance-armstrongs-ill-gotten-gains/632455/10 "2012-08-24T16:31:23Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > How does he un-fuck Sheryl Crow? Out-n-in, out-n-in, out-n-in…