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   From: lance@drugs.com   
      
   DENVER   
   Disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong hit two parked cars after a   
   night of partying in Aspen but agreed to let his longtime   
   girlfriend take the blame to avoid national attention, police   
   reports show.   
      
   Aspen police cited Armstrong with failing to report an accident   
   and speeding weeks after the Dec. 28 accident, but only after   
   his girlfriend, Anna Hansen, admitted to lying for him.   
      
   Armstrong declined immediate comment, and his attorney, Pamela   
   Mackey, didn’t immediately return a call.   
      
   Hansen initially told police she had been driving home from an   
   Aspen Art Museum party when she lost control of Armstrong’s GMC   
   Yukon on the icy roads, hitting the cars. She said she drove   
   because “Lance had a little bit to drink,” according to the   
   reports.   
      
   A man who had been renting one of the damaged cars told a police   
   detective that Hansen came running up to his house in high   
   heels, apologizing and promising to pay for the repairs.   
      
   “She said, ‘I’m Anna, we’re the Armstrongs, my husband’s Lance,   
   he was just driving maybe too fast around the corner or   
   something,’ ” the man told police, according to the reports.   
      
   He called 911 to report a hit-and-run. Hansen and Armstrong left   
   the scene before police arrived.   
      
   Detectives later interviewed Hansen, who eventually told them   
   Armstrong was driving, but they had both decided to let her take   
   the blame.   
      
   “We’ve had our family name smeared over every paper in the world   
   in the last couple of years and honestly, I’ve got teenagers, I   
   just wanted to protect my family,” Hansen told police. “I   
   thought, gosh, Anna Hansen hit some cars, it’s not going to show   
   up in the papers, but Lance Armstrong hit some cars, it’s going   
   to be a national story.”   
      
   Failure to report an accident is a misdemeanor punishable by up   
   to 90 days in jail and a fine of between $150 and $300. Driving   
   too fast for conditions is punishable by a fine between $15 and   
   $100.   
      
   Hansen is not charged with a crime.   
      
   The Aspen Daily News first reported the citation.   
      
   Armstrong won the Tour de France every year from 1999-2005.   
   Those titles were stripped after a massive report by the U.S.   
   Anti-Doping Agency detailed the use of performance enhancing   
   drugs by Armstrong and his U.S. Postal Service teammates.   
      
   http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-   
   world/national/article9114497.html   
      
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