Thursday, 3. May 2007, 02:13:55
Doping news
AFP/File photoFrom AP/Yahoo! Sports: 'The head of the World Anti-Doping Agency reiterated his full confidence Wednesday in the French laboratory that tested Floyd Landis' samples from the Tour de France. WADA president Dick Pound defended the Chatenay-Malabry lab, which found that Landis recorded elevated levels of testosterone -- including synthetic versions of the substance -- when he won last year's Tour. The American rider and his defense team repeatedly have attacked the credibility of the lab, contending it has committed numerous mistakes.'
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Tuesday, 16. January 2007, 03:07:34
Doping news
From AP/Yahoo! Sports: 'Tour de France winner Floyd Landis has been summoned to a hearing by the French anti-doping agency to determine whether he can race again in France. Landis, whose samples for one Tour stage were found to contain elevated testosterone to epitestosterone levels, did not immediately say whether he would attend the Feb. 8 hearing in Paris, officials of the French Agency Against Doping said Friday. '
MoreUllrich's DNA may be compared with blood seizedFrom AP/Yahoo! Sports: 'The DNA of former Tour de France winner Jan Ullrich could be compared to blood samples seized in the Spanish doping investigation. Bonn district attorney Fred Apostel said Monday that Spanish authorities have agreed to hand over one of the bags of frozen blood found in last April's raid on a Madrid clinic linked to alleged doping of up to 57 cyclists.'
MoreTdF cyclists warned about dopingFrom AP/Yahoo! Sports: 'A warning from the Tour de France: Cyclists - even such top riders as Jan Ullrich and Ivan Basso - could be expelled from this year's race without evidence from the Spanish doping investigation. Race director Christian Prudhomme said the investigation, in which 56 riders allegedly received given performance-enhancing drugs at a Madrid clinic, most likely won't conclude by the July 7 start of this year's tour.'
More Swiss supreme court upholds Hondo's banFrom AP/Yahoo! Sports: 'Switzerland's highest court upheld a two-year doping ban against German Danilo Hondo, the World Anti-Doping Agency and the rider said Sunday. The ruling cannot be appealed and brings to an end a legal battle that has lasted nearly the entire length of the sanction.'
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