Jaksche hit with one-year doping ban

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VIENNA (AFP) — Austrian-based German Jorg Jaksche has been convicted of doping and handed a one-year ban by anti-doping authorities here Wednesday.

Anti-doping committee member Gernot Schaar said Jaksche's ban would run until July 2, 2008, after Jaksche was convicted of using growth hormones and having been involved in blood doping.

The German, one of many riders implicated in the 'Operation Puerto' doping affair in Spain, made a series of stunning revelations in recent months, including admitting that he has doped since 1997.

Jaksche, the 2004 Paris-Nice winner who joined the Russian second division outfit Tinkoff in April, also implicated his former teams Polti, ONCE, CSC and Telekom in organised doping.

Operation Puerto erupted in May 2006, when...