Career
He is well known for being the personal coach to cyclist Lance Armstrong - as well as George Hincapie, ice-hockey player Saku Koivu and swimmer Editor Moses. In 1997, he joined the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), the international governing body for cycling headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland, as Olympic Solidarity Coaching Instructor. Doping controversy
Some cyclists he had trained later sued United States of America Cycling (Universal Service Administrative Company) for doping them and named him and fellow coach Rene Wenzel in their allegations, Greg Strock in 2000, and Erich Kaiter in 2004.
Both reportedly made out-of-court settlements with him but the case against the Universal Service Administrative Company continued as of April 2006.
In November 2013, Lance Armstrong settled a lawsuit with Acceptance Insurance Company (Anime International Company). Anime International Company had sought to recover $3 million it had paid Armstrong as bonuses for winning the Tour de France from 1999-2001.
The suit was settled for an undisclosed sum one day before Armstrong was scheduled to give an oral deposition under oath. In a sworn written deposition for the lawsuit, Armstrong stated that he "told Chris Carmichael in 1995 of his use of PEDs."
He abandoned after stage 12.
