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Forty-five athletes have failed dope tests after their samples from the 2008 Beijing Olympics and 2012 London Games were reanalysed, the International Olympic Committee said. The results are from a second wave of retests and take the total number of athletes who tested positive for prohibited substances to 98. Of the 45 failed tests announced on Friday, 30 were from Beijing, including 23 medallists, and 15 were from London.
SAINT-GERVAIS-LES-BAINS, France
Bardet wins stage, Froome crashes but retains lead
Chris Froome hit the deck but retained the overall leader’s yellow jersey on the Tour de France in the 19th stage, a crash-marred 146-km mountain trek won by Frenchman Romain Bardet on Friday. The Briton crashed some 12km from the finish on a slippery descent and ended the stage on a team mate’s bike with cuts and bruises on his back and right elbow. Shortly after Bardet lit up the race with an attack on the tricky descent towards the foot of the final ascent, Froome crashed on a right-hand bend. He was quickly back on Geraint Thomas’s bike and held firm in the favourites’ group. Bardet, who gave France their first win on this Tour, quickly caught early attacker Rui Costa in the climb, a 9.8km effort at an average gradient of eight percent and went solo with 3.5km left. — Agencies
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