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Roche raises Wiggins’ TUE issue
LONDON: Bradley Wiggins’ therapeutic use exemption which allowed him to use an otherwise banned drug was ethically wrong, fellow cyclist Nicolas Roche has said,
LONDON: Bradley Wiggins’ therapeutic use exemption which allowed him to use an otherwise banned drug was ethically wrong, fellow cyclist Nicolas Roche has said, while calling for a revision to the system as TUEs are granted too easily under current regulations.
Wiggins has come under scrutiny since Russian hackers ‘Fancy Bears’ revealed he had applied for a TUE to use a controversial corticosteroid prior to his 2012 Tour de France victory and two other road races in 2011 and 2013 when he rode for Team Sky.
“When WADA was hacked the first time and before the Wiggins story, there is a major problem with TUEs. There is a problem with the actual system,” Team Sky’s Roche told cyclingnews. com. “Again, you can do whatever you want against Wiggins but unfortunately, as far as ethically it’s wrong, he is within the rules. It is wrong that these rules are like that. That’s where the main problem is. It’s a problem not just in cycling but in all sport.”
ITALY PULL OUT OF 2024 OLYMPIC BID
ROME: Italian Olympic Committee president Giovanni Malago put a definitive end today to Rome’s bid to host the 2024 Olympic Games after the city’s newly elected mayor refused to support the project.
“I wrote to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Tuesday to withdraw Rome-2024 from the running,” Malago told a specially convened press conference. Rome’s ill-fated bid to host the Games was effectively killed off last month when the city council voted in favour of the new mayor’s request to withdraw support. “I’m forced to interrupt this process eleven months from its conclusion and after three years of work,” said Malago.
RUSSIAN STRIPPED OF 2012 OLYMPIC HAMMER GOLD
MOSCOW: Russia’s Tatyana Lysenko has been stripped of her London 2012 Olympic gold medal in the hammer throw after she tested positive for steroids in re-tests of her samples, the IOC said. “Re-analysis of Lysenko’s samples from London 2012 resulted in a positive test for the prohibited substance dehydrochl or methyl testosterone ( turinabol ),” the IOC said.
