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[Definitie:] "An ergogenic aid is any substance or phenomenon that enhances performance."
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2 0 - 0 1 - 2 0 0 5 French probe Armstrong book doping claims
AFP
PARIS - French prosecutors have opened proceedings into possible doping by six-times Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong, it was reported.
The investigations stems from a magistrate's interview with Armstrong's former British masseusse Emma O'Reilly, who was reported to have confirmed the allegations of the Texan using the banned blood booster EPO (erythropoietin) she made in "LA - Confidential - The Secrets of Lance Armstrong" last year.
Armstrong, who has only tested positive once in his career - for a cortisone-based cream back in 1999 - denies any wrongdoing. He is sueing the authors for defamation, claiming two million euros in damages.
He is also involved in a legal battle with his US insurers over a 5 million dollar bonus they have withheld since LA Confidential was published.
"This preliminary enquiry has only just begun and it would be premature to draw any conclusions, one way or another," the Annecy prosecutors' office told Le Parisien daily.
The enquiry was transferred to Annecy from the Paris office which looked into the Cofidis scandal last year which led to the suspension of Britain's world time-trial champion David Millar.
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