Vasseur

Jr. said:

Vasseur cleared; Triathlete tests positive for EPO
By Staff and wire reports
This report filed October 22, 2004
Doping charges against a top French cyclist involved in the Cofidis inquiry
have been dropped, legal sources said Friday.

Cedric Vasseur, once a member of the U.S. Postal team, was one of eight
Cofidis riders to be investigated by magistrates in the doping affair which
rocked the team in January.

The 33-year-old, a former wearer of the Tour de France yellow jersey, has
been suspended since April when it was revealed that traces of cocaine had
been found in a hair sample.

A counter-analysis later proved negative and Vasseur also claimed some of
the evidence in his witness statement had been forged. But Vasseur was
nonetheless barred from riding in this year's Tour de France.

Wow. Wanna keep a rider off the tour? Say he had traces and then 3 months
later say 'oops, nevermind'. Nice confirmatory test that takes 3 months to
run. Convenient. Now, can the rider countersue for loss of wages?

-B

Vasseur cleared; Triathlete tests positive for EPO
By Staff and wire reports
This report filed October 22, 2004
Doping charges against a top French cyclist involved in the Cofidis inquiry
have been dropped, legal sources said Friday.

Cedric Vasseur, once a member of the U.S. Postal team, was one of eight
Cofidis riders to be investigated by magistrates in the doping affair which
rocked the team in January.

The 33-year-old, a former wearer of the Tour de France yellow jersey, has
been suspended since April when it was revealed that traces of cocaine had
been found in a hair sample.

A counter-analysis later proved negative and Vasseur also claimed some of
the evidence in his witness statement had been forged. But Vasseur was
nonetheless barred from riding in this year's Tour de France.

Seven other riders are still under investigation -- Massimiliano Lelli,
David Millar - who has already confessed to using EPO - Philippe Gaumont,
Robert Sassone, Mederic Clain, Marek Rutkiewicz and Daniel Majewski, as well
as the team soigneur Boguslaw Madejak and the manager of the team's third
division outfit Oleg Kozlitine.

"B. Lafferty" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]...

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No longer under examination. From L'Equipe

L'enquête Vasseur annulée

La chambre de l'instruction de la cour d'appel de Versailles a annulé,
vendredi matin, la mise en examen du coureur Cédric Vasseur, poursuivi

dans

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l'affaire de dopage au sein de son équipe Cofidis.

L'avocat de Cédric Vasseur avait saisi la chambre de l'instruction pour
demander la nullité de la mise en examen de son client dont deux
procès-verbaux d'audition ont été falsifiés.

Le coureur nordiste, âgé de 33 ans, était l'une des dix personnes mises en
examen par le juge Richard Pallain de Nanterre dans l'affaire Cofidis,

pour

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«infraction à la législation sur les produits stupéfiants et infraction à

la

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législation sur les substances vénéneuses.»

Il reste sept coureurs ou ex-coureurs mis en examen: Massimiliano Lelli,
David Millar, Philippe Gaumont, Robert Sassone, Médéric Clain, Marek
Rutkiewicz et Daniel Majewski, ainsi qu'un soigneur, Boguslaw Madejak, et

le

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directeur sportif d'une formation de 3e division, Oleg Kozlitine.

La brigade des stupéfiants travaille depuis mars 2003 sur un présumé

trafic

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de dizaines de produits dopants au sein de l'équipe Cofidis.

Quoted message said:

From: Badger South [email hidden]
Date: 10/22/2004 10:22 AM Eastern

Quoted message said:

Wow. Wanna keep a rider off the tour? Say he had traces and then 3 months
later say 'oops, nevermind'. Nice confirmatory test that takes 3 months to
run. Convenient. Now, can the rider countersue for loss of wages?

-B

We're supposed to have faith in these clowns to clean things up????
Bill C

(TritonRider) said:

Quoted message said:

From: Badger South [email hidden]
Date: 10/22/2004 10:22 AM Eastern

Quoted message said:

Wow. Wanna keep a rider off the tour? Say he had traces and then 3 months
later say 'oops, nevermind'. Nice confirmatory test that takes 3 months to
run. Convenient. Now, can the rider countersue for loss of wages?

-B

We're supposed to have faith in these clowns to clean things up????
Bill C

Dude, it's not even affecting me, and I'm grrrr-ing about it as a fan. I
cannot even -imagine- having something like this happen to me IRL.

Given the 'fast' life-style of the/a pro rider (I'd imagine), you go to a
party and get a cup of coffee. What you don't realize is some coker used
that cup to do a line, and shook it out and put it back in the cupboard. So
while you're joeing, being a saint, the next morning you show trace.

Everytime the gubmint/governing body gets into the drug stuff it's fsked up
in some way, and ends up harming more than helping...

Even on the 'doper' side, the governing body (East Germans) messed up
hundreds of teen age girls, swimmers, gymnasts. They're the evil in this,
[censored], not the players. OK, rant off. Sorry. ;-/

-B