Cycling: France's Virenque quits
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Richard Virenque, one of France's most popular and successful cyclists, has retired from the sport aged 34.
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Former Tour de France champion Jan Ullrich has been fired by his T-Mobile team, several weeks after he was linked to a Spanish doctor charged with doping.
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Noah Ngeny, who upset Hicham El Guerrouj to win the 1,500-meter gold medal at the Sydney Olympics, retired because of recurring back and pelvis problems from 2001 car accident in Kenya.
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Floyd Landis has been officially stripped of his 2006 Tour de France title after being found guilty of doping, a cycling source told Reuters on Friday.
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Toyota's Olivier Panis will retire from Formula One at the end of the 2004 season.
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American Bobby Julich crashed in the Tour de France on Saturday, losing control of his bike while negotiating a bend during the long time trial, and the Tour&#039;s news service said he had dropped out of the three-week race.
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PARIS  - The chairman of French media and entertainment giant Vivendi Universal, Jean-Rene Fourtou, is expected to relinquish operational duties at the group next April to head a newly created supervisory board, the company said.
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French cycling star Richard Virenque retired Friday, ending a career marked by his fierce mountain climbs but tainted by his part in the Tour de France&#39;s worst doping scandal.
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Michael Schumacher, the most successful driver in Formula One history, announced his retirement on Sunday.
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Former France goalkeeper Fabien Barthez says he is to retire with immediate effect.
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Luc Vandevelde resigned as chairman of Carrefour SA in a shakeup that followed the disclosure that two new shareholders had acquired a nearly 10 percent stake in the world's second largest supermarket retailer.
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Two Belgian cyclists &#151; a former world champion and a 2000 Olympic silver medalist &#151; were suspended by their federation in separate doping scandals.
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Like a cyclist who can't shake his pursuers, the Tour de France continues to be dogged by the cloud of doping. Race leader Michael Rasmussen became the latest rider to face scrutiny Friday when he had to answer why he had been kicked off the national team for failing to report his whereabouts for drug-testing purposes.
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Olympic gold medalist Tyler Hamilton has been jettisoned from the cycling team he captained, but the Marblehead bike ace vowed yesterday to fight doping allegations that have damaged his reputation and put his career in doubt.
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Flashy as ever, Richard Virenque has climbed off his bike on the stage of the most famous music hall in Paris to bring the curtain down on his 14-year career.
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Injured French rider Olivier Jacque announced his retirement from MotoGP on Thursday after being replaced at Kawasaki by Australian Anthony West.
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Controversial French cyclist Richard Virenque, a record seven-time winner of the Tour de France&#39;s King of the Mountains jersey, will retire at the end of the current season when he turns 35.