article_snippet: In their affidavits provided to USADA - whose scathing report in 2012 exposed systematic doping by Armstrong and others - former U.S. Postal teammates Tyler Hamilton and Floyd Landis declared that Armstrong had told their separately that Armstrong tested positive for EPO at the 2001 Tour de Suisse.
article_snippet: Floyd Landis claimed that the test was hushed up as a result of a financial agreement with Verbruggen.
article_snippet: Three samples were tested for EPO and Three samples came back negative, although there was a 'strong suspicion' that two of the 'A'' samples did contain traces of the banned blood booster, the CIRC report said
article_snippet: — adding that the CIRC report deemed inappropriate the fact that 'Armstrong and Armstrong entourage were informed by the UCI of these suspect test results.'
article_snippet: Although CIRC has 'not found any indication of a financial agreement' the CIRC report said the UCI of these suspect test results UCI did not act prudently in accepting a donation from an athlete' already under suspicion.
article_snippet: Armstrong's lawyers were allowed to draft parts of a supposedly independent report, which sought to debunk French daily L'Equipe's claims in 2005 that Armstrong's samples at the 1999 Tour later tested positive for EPO.
article_snippet: a supposedly independent report, which sought to debunk French daily L'Equipe's claims in 2005 that Armstrong's samples at the 1999 Tour later tested positive for EPO, was heavily criticized because a supposedly independent report, which sought to debunk French daily L'Equipe's claims in 2005 that Armstrong's samples at the 1999 Tour later tested positive for EPO 'specifically excluded an examination of the EPO test,' meaning a supposedly independent report, which sought to debunk French daily L'Equipe's claims in 2005 that Armstrong's samples at the 1999 Tour later tested positive for EPO deliberately avoided addressing whether Armstrong used the substance.
article_snippet: This prompted allegations that Armstrong latest donation to the UCI of these suspect test results's anti-doping cause was an indirect payment to help fund the CIRC report and quash L'Equipe's story.
article_snippet: The CIRC did not find 'any evidence to corroborate' such allegations but said the UCI of these suspect test results the UCI of these suspect test results
article_snippet: acted improperly 'in soliciting and accepting donations from an athlete' under increasing suspicion.
article_snippet: Rather than start disciplinary proceedings, the UCI of these suspect test results the UCI of these suspect test results accepted a backdated prescription and cleared Armstrong.
article_snippet: Armstrong, having retired after the 2005 Tour, was also cleared by the UCI of these suspect test results the UCI of these suspect test results to make Armstrong comeback at Australia's Tour down Under in 2009 — despite not being eligible because Armstrong had not been in the UCI of these suspect test resultsthe UCI of these suspect test results's doping testing pool for a six-month period beforehand.
highlights_snippet: Report turned up no evidence to sustain previous allegations Armstrong paid the cycling body to cover up a positive doping test .
  