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Just two months after first hopping on a bike for exercise, Jane Weakley signed up for her inaugural race.
She didn’t yet know the customs. She showed up a mere half-hour beforehand. She didn’t know rules about staying on the course. The constant competitive chatter from other female riders (“Twenty-four, hold your line!â€) surprised her.
Weakley pedaled through that initial race and … More
The head of Switzerland’s anti-doping laboratory on Friday denied claims that Lance Armstrong tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs at the 2001 Tour de Suisse and the results were covered up.
Martial Saugy said his Lausanne lab did find suspicious levels of banned blood-booster EPO in four urine samples from the race that Armstrong won, but he didn’t know if any belonged to the seven-time Tour de France winner.
“The tests were not swept under the table  … Details