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Austrian skier banned 4 years for Turin scandal
[SIZE=-1]Charleston Gazette, USA - 3 hours ago[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]The Court of Arbitration of Sport banned Austrian cross-country skier Juergen Pinter from the sport for four years on Friday for his part in a doping scandal at the Turin Olympics. [/SIZE][SIZE=-1]The court upheld an appeal filed by the International Olympic Committee and the World Anti-Doping Agency against a decision by skiing's governing body to clear Pinter of allegations resulting from a police search at the 2006 games. [/SIZE][SIZE=-1]A CAS panel of three lawyers found the skier "guilty of complicity in an anti-doping rule violation by other athletes.''[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Italian police raided the Austrian cross-country and biathlon team lodgings at Pragelato near Turin on Feb. 18, 2006, seizing a large amount of doping products including syringes, needles and blood bags.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Police also found devices for measuring hemoglobin levels and determining blood groups, plus the banned substances hCG and albumin.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]The raid followed a tip that former team coach Walter Mayer, who had been implicated in doping at the 2002 Salt Lake City Games, was nearby. He fled Italy and crashed his car into a police roadblock across the Austrian border.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Olympic drug-testers conducted surprise doping checks on 10 Austrian athletes. The tests came back negative, but the IOC continued its investigation based on the police findings.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]The Austrian Olympic Committee imposed lifetime Olympic bans on 14 team officials linked to the scandal.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]In May last year, the IOC fined the Austrian committee $1 million for failing to prevent the blood-doping violations [/SIZE][SIZE=-1]...[/SIZE]
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[SIZE=-1]Charleston Gazette, USA - 3 hours ago[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]The Court of Arbitration of Sport banned Austrian cross-country skier Juergen Pinter from the sport for four years on Friday for his part in a doping scandal at the Turin Olympics. [/SIZE][SIZE=-1]The court upheld an appeal filed by the International Olympic Committee and the World Anti-Doping Agency against a decision by skiing's governing body to clear Pinter of allegations resulting from a police search at the 2006 games. [/SIZE][SIZE=-1]A CAS panel of three lawyers found the skier "guilty of complicity in an anti-doping rule violation by other athletes.''[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Italian police raided the Austrian cross-country and biathlon team lodgings at Pragelato near Turin on Feb. 18, 2006, seizing a large amount of doping products including syringes, needles and blood bags.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Police also found devices for measuring hemoglobin levels and determining blood groups, plus the banned substances hCG and albumin.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]The raid followed a tip that former team coach Walter Mayer, who had been implicated in doping at the 2002 Salt Lake City Games, was nearby. He fled Italy and crashed his car into a police roadblock across the Austrian border.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Olympic drug-testers conducted surprise doping checks on 10 Austrian athletes. The tests came back negative, but the IOC continued its investigation based on the police findings.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]The Austrian Olympic Committee imposed lifetime Olympic bans on 14 team officials linked to the scandal.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]In May last year, the IOC fined the Austrian committee $1 million for failing to prevent the blood-doping violations [/SIZE][SIZE=-1]...[/SIZE]
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