The normal sanction - if you can prove that someone has tested positive - is a two-year ban, but what we have here cannot be used as proof.

It's not wise to condemn someone who hasn't tested positive in a legal sense.

It's another heavy blow to cycling so we have to take it all the way. And I also want to know who exactly it was who gave out this information.

We're going to be looking further into this affair,

substantial concerns about the impact of this matter on the integrity of the overall drug testing regime of the Olympic movement, and in particular the questions it raises over the trustworthiness of some of the sports and political authorities active in the anti-—doping fight.

I have to say this is not pleasant but, for the moment, it only involves Lance Armstrong and France.