Olympics: Cycling Pictures

Italian cyclist Riccardo Ricco answers a question during a news conference at the Italian Olympic Committee's anti-doping prosecutor's office in Rome July 30, 2008. Ricco admitted on Wednesday that he took the blood-booster EPO before this month's Tour de France. Ricco was kicked out of the race when the results of the test were revealed and his Saunier-Duval team left the Tour. REUTERS/Tony Gentile (ITALY)

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Italian cyclist Riccardo Ricco leaves at the end of a news conference at the Italian Olympic Committee's anti-doping prosecutor's office in Rome July 30, 2008. Ricco admitted on Wednesday that he took the blood-booster EPO before this month's Tour de France. Ricco was kicked out of the race when the results of the test were revealed and his Saunier-Duval team left the Tour. REUTERS/Tony Gentile (ITALY)

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Italian cyclist Riccardo Ricco leaves at the end of a news conference at the Italian Olympic Committee's anti-doping prosecutor's office in Rome July 30, 2008. Ricco admitted on Wednesday that he took the blood-booster EPO before this month's Tour de France. Ricco was kicked out of the race when the results of the test were revealed and his Saunier-Duval team left the Tour. REUTERS/Tony Gentile (ITALY)

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Italian cyclist Riccardo Ricco answers a question during a news conference at the Italian Olympic Committee's anti-doping prosecutor's office in Rome July 30, 2008. Ricco admitted on Wednesday that he took the blood-booster EPO before this month's Tour de France. Ricco was kicked out of the race when the results of the test were revealed and his Saunier-Duval team left the Tour. REUTERS/Tony Gentile (ITALY)

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Italian cyclist Riccardo Ricco looks on during a news conference at the Italian Olympic Committee's anti-doping prosecutor's office in Rome July 30, 2008. Ricco admitted on Wednesday that he took the blood-booster EPO before this month's Tour de France. Ricco was kicked out of the race when the results of the test were revealed and his Saunier-Duval team left the Tour. REUTERS/Tony Gentile (ITALY)

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Italian cyclist Riccardo Ricco reacts during a news conference at the Italian Olympic Committee's anti-doping prosecutor's office in Rome July 30, 2008. Ricco admitted on Wednesday that he took the blood-booster EPO before this month's Tour de France. Ricco was kicked out of the race when the results of the test were revealed and his Saunier-Duval team left the Tour. REUTERS/Tony Gentile (ITALY)

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Italian cyclist Riccardo Ricco looks on during a news conference at the Italian Olympic Committee's anti-doping prosecutor's office in Rome July 30, 2008. Ricco admitted on Wednesday that he took the blood-booster EPO before this month's Tour de France. Ricco was kicked out of the race when the results of the test were revealed and his Saunier-Duval team left the Tour. REUTERS/Tony Gentile (ITALY)

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Italian cyclist Riccardo Ricco looks on during a news conference at the Italian Olympic Committee's anti-doping prosecutor's office in Rome July 30, 2008. Ricco admitted on Wednesday that he took the blood-booster EPO before this month's Tour de France. Ricco was kicked out of the race when the results of the test were revealed and his Saunier-Duval team left the Tour. REUTERS/Tony Gentile (ITALY)

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A foreign tourist cycles past the National Stadium also known as Bird's Nest (R) and the National Aquatics Centre "Water Cube" (L) engulfed in thick smog in Beijing on July 28, 2008. Beijing is considering banning 90 percent of private cars from its roads and closing more factories in a last-ditch bid to clear smoggy skies for the Olympics, state media reported July 28. AFP PHOTO/TEH Eng Koon (Photo credit should read TEH ENG KOON/AFP/Getty Images)

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2008 Tour de France winner Spanish co-team leader Carlos Sastre (L) (CSC/Den) rides past a banner denouncing Beijing Olympic Games, on July 27, 2008, during the 143 km twenty-first and last stage of the 2008 Tour de France run between Etampes and Paris Champs-Elysees. Belgian Gert Steegmans (Quick Step/Bel) won ahead of German Gerald Ciolek (Columbia -ex-High Road/US) and best sprinter green jersey Spanish Oscar Freire (Rabobank/Ned). AFP PHOTO PATRICK HERTZOG (Photo credit should read PATRICK HERTZOG/AFP/Getty Images)

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