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Thorpe drops suit against L'Equipe

Associated Press

Sunday, September 27, 2009

SYDNEY -- Five-time Olympic swimming champion Ian Thorpe has dropped a defamation case in an Australian court against the publisher of a French newspaper and a journalist over doping claims because neither of the defendants responded to the claims. Thorpe was suing the French newspaper L'Equipe, its publisher, and journalist Damien Ressiot, over an article published in March 2007 during the world swimming championships in Melbourne. The newspaper claimed Thorpe gave a urine sample in May 2006 t ...

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