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DES MOINES, Iowa, June 27 (UPI) -- Seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong is skipping Paris to ride in this summer's Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa, the Des Moines Register said.
Armstrong and former teammate Tyler Hamilton both have denied recent doping accusations in European media that they had used performance enhancing or other banned substances during their years of competition.
Former Tour winner Greg Lemond told France's L'Equipe he testified against Armstrong earlier this year concerning allegations about the 2004 Tour de France.
Armstrong told ESPN Monday the doctor who treated him for cancer in 1996 had released an affidavit saying Armstrong had never admitted using illegal substances as claimed by Betsy Andreu, wife of Armstrong's former U.S. Postal teammate Frankie Andreu. Armstrong called Lemond's claim that he threatened his life, his wife and his business "ridiculous."
Avoiding controversy in Europe, Armstrong plans to stay closer to home and ride at least one day in next month's annual Great Bicycle Race, Barry Jackson, spokesman for the Lance Armstrong Foundation, told the Register.
The race begins July 23 and wraps up July 29 in Muscatine, Iowa.
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