Sentence examples for doping trials from inspiring English sources
Sentences in previous doping trials have been light with a 15-month suspended jail sentence among the most severe punishments.
This year, a Spanish court held a high-profile doping trial after a seven-year investigation into cycling called Operation Puerto.
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.
The judge presiding over Barry Bonds's perjury case dealt prosecutors a significant setback late Thursday, ruling that the government cannot use several pieces of key evidence — including documents that tied Bonds to positive drug tests and doping calendars — at his trial, which is scheduled to begin next month.
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.
Hamilton's career has been blighted by doping scandals ever since his individual time-trial win at the Athens Olympics.
"It was all segregated and there's guys waiting to go on trial for dope, murder, rape".
The Operation Puerto scandal and ongoing trial of Eufemiano Fuentes will ensure doping in cycling remains in the headlines.
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.
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.
