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Ericsson Racing Team continued its dominance of the Volvo Ocean Race today when Torben Grael/BRA/Ericsson 4 and Magnus Olsson/SWE/Ericsson 3 finished first and second on leg six from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to Boston, USA.
The two Ericsson teams shared the same top two positions on the previous leg from Qingdao in China to Rio, but in that case, Ericsson 3 came out on top.
Sunday, Ericsson 4 crossed the finish at 21:05 GMT (16:05 local) recording an elapsed time of 15 days, 10 hours 30 minutes and 54 seconds.
Skipper Torben Grael said: ‘It feels fantastic. I think we …Â Details & Pictures
The crew member who chased a tire across pit road has returned from a four-race suspension and is in the pits at Talladega Superspeedway.
Jimmy Watts returned on Sunday as the gas man on Marcos Ambrose’s crew. He is still on probation through the end of the year. Watts chased a rolling tire across pit road and into the infield grass when … Details
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A Der Spiegel news magazine report implicates German riders Andreas Kloeden and Matthias Kessler in illegal blood transfusions, citing the findings of an independent commission investigating doping.
The commission spent two years looking into doping allegations against two doctors who allegedly put a doping system into place at Freiburg University Clinic between 1995 and 2006 for the former Team Telekom, later known as T-Mobile.
Doctors Lothar Heinrich and Andreas Schmid, fired by the university in 2007, have admitted providing and administering doping material until 1999. But the commission concluded they continued until at least 2006, the news magazine reported…Â Details