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Attorney of disgraced cyclist accuses BALCO investigators of setting 'trap'

Associated Press

Friday, November 9, 2007

SAN FRANCISCO -- An attorney for disgraced former Olympic bicyclist Tammy Thomas told a judge Friday perjury charges against his client should be dismissed because her allegedly false testimony to a federal grand jury didn't affect the panel's wide-ranging probe of steroids in sports. A federal grand jury last year charged Thomas with perjury for testifying she never took illegal steroids. Thomas was barred for life in 2002 after testing positive for norbolethone, an obscure and previously ...

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