Millar selected for Britain
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July 5, 2012, Thursday
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DAVID Millar was selected for the British Olympic cycling team yesterday, joining sprinter Dwain Chambers and shot putter Carl Myerscough as former doping offenders who had life Olympic bans overturned to compete in their home games.
The 35-year-old Millar was one of five British men named for the 250-kilometer road race at the London Games. Mark Cavendish, Chris Foome, Ian Stannard and three-time Olympic gold medalist Bradley Wiggins were the others. However, Millar wasn't included for the 44km time trial, where Wiggins and Foome would ride for Britain.
Like Chambers and Myerscough, who were named in the athletics team on Tuesday, Millar served an international suspension for a doping offense but had his lifetime ban by the British Olympic Association overturned at the Court of Arbitration for Sport in April.
Millar will be competing in his first Olympics having previously served a two-year ban from 2004-06 for using the blood-boosting drug EPO. Under BOA rules he was banned for life from competing at the games, but the bylaw was revoked this year after being rejected by sport's top court, giving him his chance to go to the games.
Millar had to overcome illness to be ready for the start of the Tour de France, Team GB said, but it still included him for the Olympics where he'll try to help Cavendish to the gold medal in the road race on July 28.
The 35-year-old Millar was one of five British men named for the 250-kilometer road race at the London Games. Mark Cavendish, Chris Foome, Ian Stannard and three-time Olympic gold medalist Bradley Wiggins were the others. However, Millar wasn't included for the 44km time trial, where Wiggins and Foome would ride for Britain.
Like Chambers and Myerscough, who were named in the athletics team on Tuesday, Millar served an international suspension for a doping offense but had his lifetime ban by the British Olympic Association overturned at the Court of Arbitration for Sport in April.
Millar will be competing in his first Olympics having previously served a two-year ban from 2004-06 for using the blood-boosting drug EPO. Under BOA rules he was banned for life from competing at the games, but the bylaw was revoked this year after being rejected by sport's top court, giving him his chance to go to the games.
Millar had to overcome illness to be ready for the start of the Tour de France, Team GB said, but it still included him for the Olympics where he'll try to help Cavendish to the gold medal in the road race on July 28.
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