Former Lance Armstrong said on Thursday it had given the bronze medal she won at the 2000 Olympic Games at the U.S. Olympic Committee officials , nine months after the IOC had demanded the return of the medal . " The bronze 2000 is again in possession of @ usolympics and will be in Switzerland , as soon as possible to the Olympics @ " , Armstrong said on his Twitter account , which also published a photo of the medal. tour de france jerseys USOC spokesman Patrick Sandusky confirmed in another Twitter that the U.S. agency has already Armostronha habíoa medal won in the time trial test -2000 Sydney ( Australia ) . " I can confirm that the States Olympic Committee (USOC ) has received the bronze medal won by Lance Armstrong in the 2000 Olympics in Sydney ," said Sandusky . " The International Olympic Committee and USOC had previously asked him to return the medal. The USOC has made arrangements for the IOC medal regresae " . Sandusky wrote . Thomas Bach , who was elected IOC president in Buenos Aires on Tuesday , revealed on Monday that in his role as head of the Judiciary Committee Olympic governing body reminded Armstrong had yet to return the medal.cycling monton The IOC had to wait to punish Armstrong withdrawing medal at the International Cycling Union ( UCI ) sanctioned the U.S. , which it did on December 6 last year, and the three weeks in which the Texan turned to his appeal of suspended for life for doping before the Court of Arbitration for Sport ( CAS ) . Armstrong was stripped of his seven Tour de France titles and imposed a lifetime sport suspension , in October 2012 , after the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA ) provide evidence of widespread doping by him and his former co- team .
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