Olympians banned for life
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The International Olympic Committee last week slapped a rare lifetime ban on six Austrian athletes. The six men, four cross-country skiers and two biathletes, were caught with blood-doping substances in an Italian police raid on their living quarters at the 2006 Winter Games in Turin, Italy. The IOC said the athletes engaged in a conspiracy to dope and to cover for each other. The Austrian Ski Federation is protesting the punishment. The groups lawyer, Karl Heinz Klee, said the athletes never committed a doping offense, and that even if they had, the World Anti-Doping Agencys code calls for only a two-year ban for first-time offenders. But banned biathlete Wolfgang Rottmann said he welcomed the action. I dont want to have anything to do with the Olympics after the treatment in Turin, he said.
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