Report: Lance Armstrong Caught With Drugs by Customs Officials in 2003

Filed under: Cycling

Lance Armstrong was caught with drugs by Swiss customs officials in 2003 and the seven-time Tour de France champ tested positive for elevated levels of testosterone on three occasions, Sports Illustrated will report in the Jan. 24 issue.

"Lance had a bag of drugs and s---," disgraced rider Floyd Landis told the magazine. "They wanted to search it, which was out of the ordinary."

Agents who searched Armstrong's belongings after he arrived with teammates via a private charter found syringes and drugs with labels written in Spanish. Armstrong asked a teammate to convince the agents that the products were injectable vitamins. Landis said the agents "looked at us sideways, but let us through."

Armstrong, who won his Tour de France titles consecutively from 1999-2005, has maintained he's never used performance-enhancing drugs. A grand jury in Los Angeles has met for months to determine whether Armstrong was part of a criminal conspiracy to purchase performance-enhancing drugs.

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