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Meanwhile, on the doping front...

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Danish mountain bike champion Peter Riis Andersen today was barred from the Beijing Games after testing positive for EPO.

Riis Andersen said during a televised news conference in Copenhagen that he got the illicit substance ‘through criminal channels because this cannot be provided legally without a receipt. I joined the club of sinners.’
The 28-year-old athlete and medical student won the Danish championships on July 20 and was one of 16 Danish cyclists who had qualified for the Beijing Games.

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Meanwhile, the Jamaican track and field team said today that an athlete had tested positive for a banned substance and will be booted from the country’s Olympic team. The Jamaica Olympic Assn. declined to name the athlete whose sample tested positive, but an official said the athlete wasn’t a ‘major’ member of the Jamaican team.
A person familiar with the case told the Associated Press that it does not involve star sprinters Usain Bolt or Asafa Powell, nor does it involve a female athlete.

And in Beijing, a German television reporter rejected a request from Chinese authorities to help identify a Chinese doctor who allegedly offered stem-cell therapy to athletes. German ARD television last week broadcast a documentary in which a man identified as a Chinese doctor appeared to be offering stem-cell therapy to a reporter who posed as an American swimming coach.

The episode was captured with a hidden camera. The doctor’s face was blurred, AP reports, and the hospital was not identified. The broadcast suggested that China remains a major center for the production and distribution of performance-enhancing drugs.

The Associated Press reported that a spokesman for the Chinese health ministry said that the doctor probably duped the reporter or provided misleading information to the public.

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