WADA responds to Armstrong’s recent pleas

During Tuesday’s WADA congress in South Africa organization president John Fahey responded to some of Armstrong’s recent comments. He stressed that the only organization that can do anything about Armstrong’s ban is USADA: 

“It has to be a damn good reason if USADA are to reopen the case," he said, and added: “Look, as far as I’m concerned, it’s done and dusted. Armstrong did what he did, we all know what that is. He did not co-operate, he did not defend the charges that USADA put out there last year and he was dealt with,” Fahey said at the WADA congress in South Africa.

“The proper process and the reasoned decision that was released by USADA was, to me, irrefutable,” Fahey is reported to have said. “Now, does he wish to come good and indicate to the world what he knows, not just about himself, perhaps, maybe about others? I don’t know.”

"That’s a possibility but I see no indication of Mr Armstrong having any willingness to do that and I would be very surprised if he does. I'd love to see it but I’d be very surprised if it ever happened,” Fahey told Cyclingnews.

“You have to wonder, with time, just how valuable the information is that he may have,” Fahey added from South Africa. “But I see it as done and dusted and it would take something close to a miracle to see that changed.”

So, short of a miracle there is no way the Texan is going to compete again.