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"Lance Armstrong should have his seven Tour de France victories reinstated because of the prevalence of doping at the time, says former cyclist Jan Ullrich. Ullrich told Sport Bild magazine he would "give Armstrong the Tour victories back. … That's how it was back then." "Bjarne Riis was given back his victory from 1996. That's how things were at the time. It's not helping anyone to have lines struck through the roll of honour," Ullrich said."

"Bulgarian sprint champion Tezdzhan Naimova was banned for life and ordered to hand back her 2013 European gold medal after failing a dope test, the Bulgarian athletics federation said Tuesday. Naimova, 26, tested positive for the banned anabolic steroid Drostanolone at the European Indoor Championships in Gothenburg in March, where she won the 60m title."

"However, those years of unparalleled success on the road and manipulation of the legal system could cost the man who was stripped of his seven Tour de France titles a large proportion of his estate. It is a year since the US ­Anti-Doping Agency published its 202-page report into what its chief executive, Travis Tygart, described as the "most sophisticated, professionalised and successful doping program that sport has ever seen"."

"BEIJING, Dec. 18 (Xinhua) -- Disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong eventually confessed to his long time use of banned drugs while more high-profile doping scandals hit the headlines from time to time. Armstrong, stripped of seven Tour de France titles and banned for life last year, had denied any wrong-doping until January this year when he confessed to use of EPO, human growth hormone and steroids in the Oprah talk show."

"The International Wrestling Federation has announced that Iran's world champion Amir Aziz Ali Akbari, who won the 120 kg-weight class title in September in Hungary, has been banned for life after a second doping offense."