Most sophisticated doping program

The 1,000-page report from the US Anti-Doping Agency has described the Lance Armstrong's United States Postal Service team as running "the most sophisticated, professionalised and successful doping program that sport has ever seen".

The anti-doping agency sets out its case against US national icon and cancer-campaigning champion and the former cycling hero as a bully who coerced his teammates into taking performance enhancing drugs and a cheat who made payments of thousands of dollars for doping programs.

The report concluded Lance Armstrong's goal of winning made him go dependent on EPO, testosterone, and blood transfusions and he even coerced his teammates to use drugs or be replaced.

The lawyers of Armstrong attacked the report as "a one-sided hatchet job, a taxpayer-funded tabloid piece rehashing old, disproved, unreliable allegations based largely on axe-grinders, serial perjurers, coerced testimony, sweetheart deals and threat-induced stories."

The report lists nine witnesses: Frankie Andreu, Michael Barry, Tom Danielson, Hincapie, Levi Leipheimer, Stephen Swart, Christian Vande Velde, Jonathan Vaughters and David Zabriskie. Floyd Landis, a former teammate of the cyclist, said Armstrong doped and Tyler Hamilton – whose revelatory book has just been named on the shortlist for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year – soon joined to attack the American cyclist, who won the Tour de France seven times and now may face perjury charges for making a false statement that he never used performance enhancing drugs.