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SI has compiled its annual Turkeys of the Year and Lance Armstrong is amongst the undistinguished. The cycling legend was relieved of his record-seven Tour de France titles and banned from the sport for life for using performance-enhancing substances. (The International Cycling Union imposed a similar sentence.) Armstrong declined to challenge USADA, but rode off screaming “witch hunt!” despite more than 1,000 pages of damning evidence and testimony from former teammates. As a final indignity, his sponsors fled and the anti-cancer charity he founded dropped his name from its title. (Simon Bruty/SI)
GALLERY: 2012 Turkeys of the Year
In a stunning announcement, Lance Armstrong - seen here working out for his 2009 comeback - said he was giving up his fight against doping charges brought by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency. In doing so, the famed cyclist will be stripped of his seven titles in the Tour de France and will receive a lifetime ban from competing in any sport sanctioned by the World Anti-Doping Agency code. (Courtesy of Elizabeth Kreutz)
The pack of Tour de France cyclists pass by a field of sunflowers during the 123-mile seventh stage, starting in Tomblaine and finishing in La Planche des Belles Filles. Englishman Christopher Froome won the stage with a time of 4:58:35. (Joel Saget/AFP/Getty Images)
GALLERY: Leading Off - Pictures of the Week
The pack rides on during the third stage of the Giro d’Italia around Horsens, Denmark on Monday. (Luk Beniesluk Benies/AFP/GettyImages)
A pack of riders make their way through the second stage of the Tour of Oman cycling race between Sur and Wadi Dayqah Dam, Oman. (EPA)
MURPHY: Feds case may be closed, but Armstrong not yet in clear
