Cyclist receives 8-year ban for 2nd doping offense (AP)
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. ? The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency says cyclist Joseph Papp has accepted an eight-year ban for his second doping offense.
The 36-year-old Papp received a reduced penalty Friday for helping anti-doping authorities. Papp was a USADA witness in the 2007 arbitration case that eventually stripped Floyd Landis of his Tour de France title.
Papp was one of the key figures in a case stemming from an investigation into EPO and human-growth hormone trafficking from China, involving nearly 200 athletes in 2006 and 2007.
Papp, of Bethel Park, Pa., last year pleaded guilty to two counts of conspiracy to sell performance-enhancing drugs over the Internet.
He also tested positive for a banned substance in May 2006.
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