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Title:Tour de France doping revisited; 2 more cyclists accused - http://www.bikingbis.com/blog/_archives/2008/10/7/3918874.html
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For those of you keeping score at home, this years doping dragnet of the Tour de France has netted a total of 6 cyclists. Book em, Danno.

Two suspects -- Germanys Stefan Schumacher (Gerolsteiner) and Italys Leonardo Piepoli (Saunier Duval) -- were disclosed Monday after French laboratory technicians retested some urine samples that had originally tested negative.

If the accusations hold true, some rewriting of the record books will be in order. Schumacher won both individual time trials from Fabian Cancellara and spent a few days in the yellow jersey. Piepoli won a mountain stage in the Pyrenees.

Both were alleged to have used a new form of EPO called Continuous Erythropoiesis Receptor Activator, or CERA....

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Date Added:October 07, 2008 11:00:00 AM
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