USADA v Armstrong - Charges

The USADA report list six charges against Lance Armstrong:

1. Use and / or attempted use of prohibitive substances
2. Possession of prohibitive substances
3. Trafficking of prohibitive susbstances
4. Administration and / or attemted administration of prohibitive substance to others
5. Assisting, encouraging, aiding, abetting, covering up and other complicity
6. Aggravating circumstances

The difficulty I have with charge one is that testing should have caught it. According to the report, from 1999 - 2005, 20 of the 21 Tour podium finishers have been linked to doping and that from 1996 - 2010, thirty-six of forty-five have been linked.

Hopefully the report will give some insight into how Lance Armstrong could have avoided detection during that time when so many others were caught.