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May 31, 2006

In the kingdom of the ballless, the one balled man is king. (Redux)

Following on from the report last year that the French authorities had found banned substances in an old sample from Lance Armstrong

Dutch investigators cleared Lance Armstrong of doping in the 1999 Tour de France on Wednesday, and blamed anti-doping authorities for misconduct in dealing with the American cyclist.

A 132-page report recommended convening a tribunal to discuss possible legal and ethical violations by the World Anti-Doping Agency and to consider "appropriate sanctions to remedy the violations."

The French sports daily L'Equipe reported in August that six of Armstrong's urine samples from 1999, when he won the first of his record seven-straight Tour titles, came back positive for the endurance-boosting hormone EPO when they were retested in 2004.

Vrijman said Wednesday his report "exonerates Lance Armstrong completely with respect to alleged use of doping in the 1999 Tour de France."

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The ethical and legal violations result from being unable to retest the sample as it had been destroyed/contaminated/the dog ate my homework.

Here's to a twenty first sequential French defeat in the Tour.

Scrawled illegibly by Meathe at May 31, 2006 05:03 PM

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