Liestrong unable to Swimstrong

Lance Armstrong, who is serving a lifetime ban from Olympic sports because of serious doping violations, planned to return to athletic competition this week at a masters swimming event that does not test its athletes for drugs. But after learning of Armstrong’s entry, the International Swimming Federation put a stop to his plans. “I was told all along that I was more than welcome to compete in masters meets by U.S.M.S.,” Lance Armstrong said of U.S. Masters Swimming. “Then all of a sudden, I’m not welcome? I don’t get it.” But I do. Armstrong, who in January confessed to doping for each of his record seven Tour de France victories, was barred from this weekend’s event and future events sanctioned by U.S. Masters Swimming because that organization is overseen by swimming’s international federation, which adheres to World Anti-Doping Agency rules. Armstrong received his lifetime ban and was stripped of his Tour titles under those rules. Armstrong, who came clean about his doping partly in an effort to reduce his doping penalty because he wants to compete again, said that he was “extremely disappointed” that he could not compete in the meet. To quote Judge Judy, that falls under the category of tough. That lowlife maggot deserves to be banned for taking drugs, just like James Holmes deserves the death penalty for killing twelve moviegoers last July.