He's going to have to crawl through a lot of crap before he sees daylight.

Lance Armstrong has cut formal ties with his cancer-fighting charity organization to avoid further damage brought by doping charges and being stripped of his seven Tour de France titles.

Lance Armstrong stepped down as chairman of his Livestrong cancer-fighting charity and Nike severed ties with him as fallout from the doping scandal swirling around the famed cyclist escalated further earlier today.