Lance Amstrong had won a former record seven consecutive times .
Armstrong had won the Tour de France a ( former ) record seven consecutive times between 1999 and 2005 before he was disqualified from all those races and banned from competitive cycling for life , for doping offenses by the Union Cycliste Internationale ( UCI ) in 2012 , after the United States Anti-Doping Agency ( USADA ) presented its findings .
Lance Armstrong