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Wednesday 7 June 2006

Sports doping is outpacing oversight.

PARIS. As he was pedaling uphill toward the Portes Pass in the Alps during the Tour de France on July 12, 2003, Jesús Manzano, then a 25-year-old rider with the Kelme team from Spain, fell off his bicycle.



Though that happens all the time in the sport, Manzano did not crash in the usual way. He had been poisoned with illegal drugs and had received transfusions of suspect blood, he later alleged in just one of the bicycle doping cases that have been on recent court dockets in Britain, France, Belgium, Italy, Spain, Switzerland and Germany.

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La Somalie en passe de devenir un Etat islamique ? Islamist militia close in on secular warlords in Somalia ?

C'est en tout cas ce que promettent les milices des Tribunaux islamiques, qui se sont emparées de la capitale lundi. ....

Islamist militia in Somalia are said to be closing in on a warlord stronghold 90 kilometres north of the capital Mogadishu...

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