AP Blog: Returning rider admits doping past
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AP Correspondent John Leicester is covering the Tour de France and he and other AP writers will be filing periodic reports on the three-week cycling extravaganza that got under way July 1.
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MONTREAL A series of errors and misunderstandings led to the botched drug test that resulted in Tyler Hamilton, the American cyclist, retaining his gold medal from the Athens Olympics, the World Anti-Doping Agency has said in a report.
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MADRID : American cyclist Tyler Hamilton, who won the Olympic time trial gold medal last month, faces a two-year ban after becoming the first ever athlete to give a positive test for blood doping.
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WADA chief suggests cyclist got away with doping: Tyler Hamilton&#39;s title from the Athens Games is &quot;no longer a gold medal in the eyes of the world&quot; because of the cyclist&#39;s failed drug test, the head of the World Anti-Doping Agency said.
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Seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong said doping charges leveled in a new book by Irish writer David Walsh are recycled allegations designed to "cash in on my name and sully my reputation."
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A mystery at the center of track and field&#39;s biggest doping scandal has finally been solved. Top track coach Trevor Graham has admitted he was the coach who anonymously sent a syringe of THG to the US Anti
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Disgraced Tour de France winner Floyd Landis admits his cycling career may be over after his positive dope test.
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LYON, France  - A French judge confirmed on  Thursday a preliminary probe had been launched into doping  claims against Tour de France six-time winner Lance Armstrong.
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Sport: Disgraced US former Olympic champion sentenced to prison for lying to investigators about steroid use
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Tyler Hamilton almost certainly would be banned for life as a two-time offender if the US Anti-Doping Agency decides there is conclusive proof in documents from the Spanish doping scandal that the Marblehead cyclist used banned drugs in past years.
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Devastated by doping, a sport looks to youth to revive its fortunes
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Surprise and shock from a top kiwi cyclist at the doping allegations against American Tyler Hamilton. Heath Blackgrove raced against Hamilton in the Olympic time trial in Athens.
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L'ALPE D'HUEZ  - Seven-times Tour de France winner   Lance Armstrong believes cycling needs the support of its fans   following the doping scandal that prevented this year's   favorites Jan Ullrich and Ivan Basso competing.
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Justin Gatlin said Friday he has "no idea how any banned substance got into my body," and restated his plan to appeal the eight-year ban from track he received earlier this week after acknowledging he tested positive for doping.
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Former Tour de France winner Bjarne Riis admits using the banned blood-booster EPO during his career.
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Lance Armstrong respinge ancora una volta le accuse di doping piovutegli addosso ora che ha smesso. ...
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.  - U.S. rider Joseph  D'Antoni has been banned for two years after testing positive  for the prohibited substance EPO, the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency  (USADA) has announced.