The lifetime ban is justified. Again, from USADA's August 24, 2012 statement:
... aggravating circumstances including involvement in multiple anti-doping rule violations and participation in a sophisticated doping scheme and conspiracy as well as trafficking, administration and/or attempted administration of a prohibited substance or method, justify a period of ineligibility greater than the standard sanction....
I still don't understand why no criminal complaints were brought against him, here or in Europe.
The lifetime ban is justified. Again, from USADA's August 24, 2012 statement:
... aggravating circumstances including involvement in multiple anti-doping rule violations and participation in a sophisticated doping scheme and conspiracy as well as trafficking, administration and/or attempted administration of a prohibited substance or method, justify a period of ineligibility greater than the standard sanction....
I still don't understand why no criminal complaints were brought against him, here or in Europe.
