Lance Armstrong's former team director Johan Bruyneel has been banned for 10 years by the American Arbitration Association.
Bruyneel was found to have trafficked performance-enhancing drugs, encouraged their use and to have profited from the success of his riders during a doping-ravaged period in the professional peloton. "Bruyneel encouraged athletes to use doping products including EPO, blood transfusions, testosterone, and cortisone," USADA said. He remained in cycling after Armstrong's 2005 retirement and was the Texan's team director on his return with Astana in 2009 and Team RadioShack in 2010. Bruyneel left RadioShack in 2012. The trio were the latest US Postal staff to be sanctioned, joining Dr Michele Ferrari and Dr Luis Garcia del Moral, who were each given life bans.Former Lance Armstrong team director Johan Bruyneel handed 10-year ban