It's not about ... the pool?
Disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong is planning to return to competitive sports
this weekend ... as a middle-distance swimmer.
He'll compete in the Masters South
Central Zone Swimming Championships in Texas, which aren't subject to USA or
World Anti-Doping Agency codes.
Lance Armstrong was stripped of his seven Tour de France titles after
deciding not to defend the litany of doping charges filed against him last
August.
This weekend, he is set to compete
in freestyle races of 500 yards, 1,000 yards and 1,650 yards at the swimming
event held in his home city of Austin.
His first race, the 1,650-yard
freestyle, takes place Friday.
US Masters Swimming executive
director Rob Butcher said that he had not received any objections to Lance
Armstrong competing in the event.
"The purpose of our
organization is to encourage adults to swim," Butcher told the Austin
American-Statesman newspaper in a simple statement.
Armstrong confessed to taking
performance-enhancing drugs during all seven of his Tour de France wins between
1999-2005 in an interview with Oprah Winfrey.
He is banned for life from cycling.
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