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Australian cyclist French wins defamation case
[SIZE=-1]International Herald Tribune, France - 1 hour ago[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Mark French won the libel action Monday, a Victorian Supreme Court jury finding that he had been defamed by comments on the Triple M radio program relating to the doping case in 2004.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]He was awarded $227,500 in damages plus interest of $37,050 and costs, the Australian Broadcasting Corp. reported.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]A former world junior sprint champion, French was banned in 2004 for two years from competition and for life by the Australian Olympic Committee after cleaners found packages of banned substances in a bucket in his room at a national training academy in Adelaide.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]But the Court of Arbitration for Sport later overturned the sanctions, ruling that there was no scientific evidence which proved that French had been taking a banned equine growth hormone or that he was trafficking in illegal substances [/SIZE]
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[SIZE=-1]International Herald Tribune, France - 1 hour ago[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Mark French won the libel action Monday, a Victorian Supreme Court jury finding that he had been defamed by comments on the Triple M radio program relating to the doping case in 2004.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]He was awarded $227,500 in damages plus interest of $37,050 and costs, the Australian Broadcasting Corp. reported.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]A former world junior sprint champion, French was banned in 2004 for two years from competition and for life by the Australian Olympic Committee after cleaners found packages of banned substances in a bucket in his room at a national training academy in Adelaide.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]But the Court of Arbitration for Sport later overturned the sanctions, ruling that there was no scientific evidence which proved that French had been taking a banned equine growth hormone or that he was trafficking in illegal substances [/SIZE]
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