Lance Armstrong might take a lie detector test to clear his name from doping allegations, his lawyer said on Sunday, as ripples of the biggest scandal to hit cycling prompted Austr-alian officials to consider an amnesty for cheats.
Cycling Australia’s board will meet this week to decide action against former Armstrong teammate Matt White, who has confessed to doping. Another former teammate of the American, Scot David Millar, said “the power of omerta” had kept cyclists silent about doping for years but that changed in the wake of the US Anti-Doping Agency’s damning report on Armstrong.
Armstrong, who is set to lose his seven Tour de France titles, has refused to challenge the USADA’s charges. His lawyer Tim Herman told the BBC Sunday the Texan might take a lie detector test to prove his innocence. “We might do that, you never know,” Herman said.