Sentence examples for doping trial from inspiring English sources

This year, a Spanish court held a high-profile doping trial after a seven-year investigation into cycling called Operation Puerto.

Sentences in previous doping trials have been light with a 15-month suspended jail sentence among the most severe punishments.

Eufemiano Fuentes, the doctor at the center of the Operation Puerto blood-doping trial, said he never treated Real Madrid's players, after the club's announcement that it planned to sue him for giving the impression that he had.

He was the 2004 Olympic time-trial champion, although that title was marred by a positive blood doping test, later overruled on a technicality.

His group has been in flux — a previous incarnation included other high-profile advisers: Jay Reisinger, a lawyer from Pittsburgh with a long history of representing baseball players in doping cases; Roy Black, a veteran trial lawyer from Miami; and Terry Fahn, a public-relations consultant from Sitrick and Company.

He was not, after all, on trial for having doped.

Hamilton's career has been blighted by doping scandals ever since his individual time-trial win at the Athens Olympics.

The Operation Puerto scandal and ongoing trial of Eufemiano Fuentes will ensure doping in cycling remains in the headlines.

• Ueberroth and Scherr soft-pedaled a recent New York Times report that forecast a doping track and field bloodbath in the coming trial of an American coach, Trevor Graham.

Pre-race favourite Alexander Vinokourov was also sent packing after testing positive for blood doping following his victory in the Albi time-trial last weekend.

Some of the riders he had accused of systematic doping were zipping by on a 20.9-mile time-trial course.