(FILES) A picture taken on June 30, 1995 shows US Lance Armstrong underging the medical check-up before the 1995 Tour de France in Saint-Brieuc, western France. Lance Armstrong was banned on October 22, 2012 by the International Cycling Union (UCI) as the world cycling body upheld an earlier doping sanction handed to the seven-times Tour de France champion. AFP PHOTO PATRICK KOVARIK (Photo credit should read PATRICK KOVARIK/AFP/Getty Images)