With Lance Armstrong still digging in for a legal fight, the U. Colin Kaepernick Youth Jersey .S. Anti-Doping Agency on Tuesday issued lifetime sports bans to three former staff members and consultants on Armstrongs winning Tour de France teams for doping violations. Luis Garcia del Moral was a team doctor; Michele Ferrari a consulting doctor; and Jose (Pepe) Marti a team trainer for Armstrongs U.S. Postal Service and Discovery Channel squads. All had been accused by USADA of participating in a vast doping conspiracy on those teams during part or all of Armstrongs seven Tour de France victories from 1999-2005. Armstrong also has been charged and has declared his innocence. Armstrong wants a federal judge to block USADAs case against him from going forward and is expected to refile a lawsuit within days. An Armstrong spokesman declined immediate comment on the USADA bans issued Tuesday. Under USADA rules, Moral, Marti and Ferrari had until Monday to challenge the allegations in arbitration or ask for a five-day extension. If they did not respond, USADA could impose sanctions. Although none of those charged live in the United States, USADA says the ban blocks them from participating in any sport that falls under the World Anti-Doping Agency code. "The respondents chose not to waste resources by moving forward with the arbitration process, which would only reveal what they already know to be the truth of their doping activity," said Travis Tygart, chief executive of USADA. Theres been no indication from USADA that any of the three men -- who each received the agencys maximum punishment -- is co-operating with investigators. Armstrong was granted his extension while he files his court case. Also charged and granted an extension was Armstrongs former team manager Johan Bruyneel. Another team doctor, Pedro Celaya, also has been charged and faced the same Monday deadline. A USADA spokeswoman declined to say if Celaya asked for an extension or for his case to go to arbitration. USADA filed the charges against Armstrong and the others in June, laying out what it calls a vast doping conspiracy on Armstrongs teams when he was winning the Tour de France from 1999-2005. Moral, who lives in Spain, was the team physician from 1999-2003. According to USADA, he helped riders use banned blood transfusion techniques to help boost endurance. He also helped them use banned performance-enhancing drugs including the blood-booster EPO and steroids. Moral could not immediately be reached for comment by telephone or email. Ferrari, who lives in Italy, was a consulting doctor for Armstrong and the U.S. Postal Service and Discovery Channel teams from 1999-2006, according to USADA. USADA said Ferrari developed a special mixture of testosterone and olive oil to be placed under the tongue to help riders recover from races and training. He also helped advised riders how to use EPO and avoid detection. Ferraris lawyer could not be immediately reached for comment and there was no answer at Ferraris home. The doctor already was banned for life by the Italian cycling federation in 2002. Marti, of Spain, who worked for the U.S. Postal Service, Discovery from 1999-2007 and then Astana, helped deliver performance-enhancing drugs to riders in Europe and helped with injections, USADA said. "Permanently banning these individuals from sport is a powerful statement that protects the current and next generation of athletes from their influence, and preserves the integrity of future competition," Tygart said. Colin Kaepernick Womens Jersey . Roy issued a statement on Saturday saying he will seek further treatment on the chronic pain in his knees in hopes of continuing his comeback attempt with the Minnesota Timberwolves. Mike Iupati Jersey . 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EDMONTON -- The Alberta Labour Relations Board has decided that the NHLs lockout of players from the Edmonton Oilers and Calgary Flames can continue. The board said in a written ruling released Wednesday that forcing an end to the lockout for two members of a 30-team league would be unlikely to solve the contract dispute between the National Hockey League and the players union. "It is our expectation this is nothing more than an unhelpful distraction from their efforts," the ruling said. "An order declaring the lockout to be in violation of the (Alberta Labour Relations) Code would have no positive impact on this dispute." The National Hockey League Players Association had wanted the board to rule the lockout illegal in Alberta. NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly said the league was pleased with the ruling. "We are hopeful that this will enable both the league and the NHL Players Association to focus all our efforts and energies on negotiating a new collective bargaining agreement in order to get our game and our players back on the ice," Daly said in a statement. A release from the NHLPA said the union was considering its options. "The players are obviously disappointed with todays decision," the statement read. "Unfortunately, the Alberta Labour Relations Board decided not to exercise its discretion to determine whether the owners lockout violates Alberta law." The labour board held a hearing into the dispute last month. The union had argued that the Oilers and Flames are Alberta businesses and as such must abide by provincial labour rules. Those rules say a mediator must have 14 days to work with both sides in a contract dispute before a lockout vote can be held. The NHL had applied for a mediator in Alberta, but informed the board after three days that it didnt believe meetings would have to be held. Lawyers for the NHL told the board that the league has always bargained as a unit and not through individual teams and argued that the league needs to operate under one set of labour laws to function. The labour board didnt answer the question as to whether the league should come under its jurisdiction. It noted that both the league and the players have made arguments under the laws of various jurisdictions depending on circumstances. But it did decide that it had discretion under the law not to issue a ruling at all if it felt that would be the best way to get the two sides back to the bargaining table. "This is a case where it makes labour relations sense to exercise our discretion not to make a declaration of unlawful conduct and not to issue any remedy," the board said. Meanwhile in New York, the NHL and the NHLPA met for five hours but the talks did little to move the sides closer to a deal in the nearly one-month work stoppage. Daly and NHL commissioner Gary Bettman met with the NHLPAs main negotiators -- executive director Donald Fehr and special counsel Steve Fehr -- for nearly an hour in the morning to assess where the sides were on Day 25 of the dispute, but there was no concrete discussions on the troublesome core economic issues preventing a deal. A four-hour session that stretched into Wednesday evening centred on player health and safety issues, along with other miscellaneous legal topics. The health issues involved seeking multiple medical opinions on injuries, and who should make determinations when a player is healthy enough to return to action after being hurt. "We have some disagreements in those areas," Daly said. "When you get to this point of the discussions on some of those areas, that is to be expected so were kind of refining some of the things we continue to have disagreements on. "We had no discussion of the major economic issues or system issues, so that continues to be a disappoiintment from our perspective. Justin Smith Jersey. " The sides will meet again Thursday -- which would have been the opening day of the NHLs regular season -- but there are still no plans to delve into how the sides will split up hockey-related revenue that was in excess of US$3 billion last season. Steve Fehr took a more optimistic view of what was discussed Wednesday, but lamented that the discussions were taking place instead of action on the ice. "You often dont know whether youre making progress until you look back on it," he said. "We were just sort of discussing the overall status of the bargaining and where the parties are." The NHL is eager to get a new proposal from the union on the main economic issues, but the players contend that they have moved closer to the leagues demands in their previous offers while the NHL has only sought to take more away from the union in each proposal it has made. "I think were making progress in a number of the areas that were discussed today," Steve Fehr said. "They were good discussions. Its a shame that they are going on in the midst of a lockout when we could be doing it while were playing or we couldve been doing it a month ago or two months ago. "I wouldnt say (talks) are dead in the water. The sides are in constant communication. I think we have a pretty good sense of where each other is." However, Donald Fehr has floated the idea that the longer the lockout goes on, the players might seek to make an offer that doesnt include a salary cap -- the very issue that led to the cancellation of the 2004-05 season. The collective bargaining agreement that finally ended that lockout seven years ago expired last month. "None of those comments were a surprise to me," Daly said. "If that is the direction they choose to go in, thats up to them. I dont make the decisions for them. Theyve suggested they want to get the players back on the ice soon. I can pretty much assure you if they make that proposal, it wont get the players back on the ice soon." If discussions can get jump-started, the sides havent ruled out meeting again on Friday. Two weeks of the regular season have already been wiped out -- at least temporarily -- and if a deal isnt struck soon, more games could soon be lost. For now, Daly and the NHL just want to hear something new from the union. "Were trying to think of ideas to move the process forward," he said. "Our message to the players association was were encouraging them to make a proposal. We hear, we understand that they have been working on some concepts, some ideas. Weve suggested to them to just make the proposal. "Any movement is better than no movement at all. If we move sideways, hopefully we move it forward. But even if we move backward, it might be better than where we are now." These were the first negotiations since the sides held an unannounced meeting in Toronto on Friday to discuss where they were and how to move the process forward. The NHL has already cancelled the first two weeks of the regular season, wiping out 82 games from Thursday through Oct. 24. Daly estimated the NHL lost $100 million from the cancellation of the entire pre-season and another $140 million to $150 million with the regular-season losses. "Its unfortunate for both of us," he said. "Its a significant amount of money that the players share in on a significant basis. Whatever that percentage ends up being, its a significant basis. "Even more disappointing from should be from our collective perspective is we felt like over the last seven years weve built up a lot of momentum in the business, weve had a lot of growth, and who knows what a work stoppage from this will do to our momentum." -- With files from The Associated Press ' ' '