WHERE ARE THEY NOW? The Lance Armstrong team that dominated the Tour de France

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Before the US Anti-Doping Agency found that his team ran "the most sophisticated, professionalized and successful doping program that sport has ever seen," Lance Armstrong did what no one had ever done: He won the Tour de France seven times, and he did so consecutively, from 1999 to 2005.

As we know now, his victories were aided by a variety of performance-enhancing drugs.

But Armstrong didn't act alone, and it was, darkly so, a true team effort. A calculating tactician, Armstrong handpicked teammates carefully, and together they represented sport's most dominant team. An indelible image from the era was that of the US Postal Service's "Blue Train" setting a blistering pace at the front of the peloton, one that for years no one could match, let alone beat.

More than a decade later, many of the key riders who served under Armstrong's tainted reign are still involved in the sport.