Bike dope
It might be Millar Time again, reports VeloNews European correspondent, Andrew Hood. (http://www.velonews.com/news/fea/7598.0.html). Disgraced time trialist David Millar, who admitted to taking the banned substance EPO on three separate occasions, could return to Tour de France racing as early as 2006.
The wrinkle? The Court of Arbitration for Sport is pondering a new rule that would mandate any rider found guilty of doping would have to serve a time equal to their original racing ban on a continental team before returning to a pro team.
Hood notes that many might complain the additional time is unfair punishment, but fans fed up with cycling's tarnished image from all the drug scandals could just as easily argue that the harder the line on doping the better.
Millar lost both his win in the 2001 Vuelta and the 2003 World Time Trial Championships for EPO use.
The wrinkle? The Court of Arbitration for Sport is pondering a new rule that would mandate any rider found guilty of doping would have to serve a time equal to their original racing ban on a continental team before returning to a pro team.
Hood notes that many might complain the additional time is unfair punishment, but fans fed up with cycling's tarnished image from all the drug scandals could just as easily argue that the harder the line on doping the better.
Millar lost both his win in the 2001 Vuelta and the 2003 World Time Trial Championships for EPO use.
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