Former Cofidis man jailed
ByReuters
Published 19/01/2007 at 15:12 GMT
Former Cofidis cycling team physiotherapist Bogdan Madejak has been sentenced by a French court to 12 months in prison, nine of them suspended, for his implication in a doping case.
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Seven other accused, some of them riders, have been given suspended sentences of three to six months, the court added.
Briton David Millar and Italian Massimiliano Lelli have been discharged as the offences they were accused of were not perpetrated on French soil and as they are not French.
Most of the accused were charged with acquiring and possessing banned performance-enhancing drugs.
Millar's lawyer said in 2004 that his client had told police during questioning he took the blood-boosting substance erythropoietin (EPO) in 2001 and 2003.
Millar, who won the Tour de France prologue in 2000, was banned for two years from the sport and made his return in last year's Tour.
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