Sports | Lance Armstrong Lance Armstrong Will Be Burned in Effigy He gets annual honor from English town By John Johnson Posted Oct 31, 2012 6:57 PM CDT Copied Artist Frank Shepherd poses with his creation of Lance Armstrong in Edenbridge, England. (AP Photo / Gareth Fuller, PA) Poor Lance Armstrong. He lost his Tour de France titles, and now an English town is going to burn him in effigy in a big way. Edenbridge has chosen Armstrong as the celeb to go up in flames in its annual Bonfire Night celebrations on Nov. 5, reports NBC's Off the Bench blog. The 30-foot version is already in place. In Armstrong's defense, not everyone thinks that sports doping should be illegal. Read These Next Norwegians are flabbergasted by Machado's Nobel giveaway. ICE arrests casino magnate in a remote US territory. Pamela Anderson didn't love sitting near Seth Rogen at the Globes. Trump nominee assures Iceland he was joking. Report an error