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Now, Lance Armstrong's effigy to be burnt

October 31, 2012 21:59

Stripped of his cycling medals over a doping scandal, disgraced US icon Lance Armstrong will suffer a fresh humiliation at the hands of an English town which will burn him in effigy.

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Stripped of his cycling medals over a doping scandal, disgraced US icon Lance Armstrong will suffer a fresh humiliation at the hands of an English town which will burn him in effigy.(All AFP Photos and text)
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The 30-foot (nine-metre) steel-framed figure, dressed in a Tour de France leader's yellow jersey, will be torched during the annual Guy Fawkes or Bonfire Night celebrations in Edenbridge in Kent, southeast England.
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Armstrong was stripped of his record seven Tour de France wins after a damning US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) report concluded that he was at the heart of the most sophisticated doping programme in the history of sport.
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The Armstrong effigy also sports a badge around its neck saying "Jim Fixed It For Me", a reference to the late British television presenter Jimmy Savile, who has been accused of widespread child sex abuse.

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