Lance Armstrong, the winner of seven Tour de France cycling titles, declared that he would not fight the US anti doping agency do to the fact that it would take too great of a toll on his family, and distract him from his charities for cancer. He still says the claims are nonsense, and not based on doping tests, which he has past hundreds of in the past. This means that he will most likely be stripped of all of his Tour de France titles, as well as banned for life from cycling. I'll let the articles explain the rest.
All three blogs provide basic summaries of what happened.
The LA times presented the most detail and provides the claims:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/24/sports/cycling/lance-armstrong-ends-fight-against-doping-charges-losing-his-7-tour-de-france-titles.html?_r=1&hp
Here's an article from Australia in the Sydney Morning Herald, the briefest of the three:
http://www.smh.com.au/sport/lance-armstrong-drops-drugs-fight-20120824-24qjz.html
Lastly an article from the British newscast the BBC. This article may give the most wholesome view from both Armstrong's point and the US anti doping agency's point.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-19364384
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