3 Associates of Lance Armstrong Receive Lifetime Bans Three of Lance Armstrong's former associates on Tuesday received lifetime bans from Olympic sports for their involvement in what the United States Anti-Doping Agency has called a widespread doping conspiracy on Armstrong's Tour de France-winning teams. Luis Garcia del Moral, a team doctor on the United States Postal Service team; Michele Ferrari, a consulting doctor to riders on the Postal Service and Discovery Channel teams; and Pepi Marti, a trainer on the teams, were banned after not responding to official charges levied by the antidoping agency last month. The men were charged with violating the World Anti-Doping Code for administering performance-enhancing drugs and blood transfusions, trafficking in banned substances, and covering up the use of banned substances or blood doping while working with those cycling squads. Armstrong, the team manager Johan Bruyneel and the former Postal Service team doctor Pedro Celaya have also been charged with participating in the scheme. Armstrong, who insists he is not guilty, has until Saturday to decide if he will accept the charges or contest them and go to arbitration. If he accepts the charges, he would be stripped of his seven Tour titles and receive a lifetime ban from sports that are signatories to the code. Bruyneel, who sat out of the Tour this year, also has until Saturday to respond, the antidoping agency said, but Celaya has asked to go directly to arbitration. Armstrong is trying to stop the process. He filed a lawsuit on Monday in United States District Court in Austin, Tex., against the antidoping agency seeking to block its case. A federal judge dismissed the complaint hours later, saying it contained too much irrelevant information and did not conform to the rules for filing a civil lawsuit. Armstrong's lawyers filed an abridged version of their 80-page complaint - 25 pages - on Tuesday. Among their arguments was that the antidoping agency does not have jurisdiction over Armstrong's case - the International Cycling Union does, they asserted - and that the agency violated Armstrong's constitutional right to due process. It was unclear when the judge would rule.