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| Assou-Ekotto agrees to end two-year Cameroon exile Posted: 28 Jan 2013 07:18 AM PST YAOUNDE, Jan 28 – Tottenham Hotspur defender Benoit Assou-Ekotto is set to play for Cameroon next month for the first time in two years. The left back was named today in a 21-man squad for the friendly in Tanzania on Feb. 6, the country's football federation said. Assou-Ekotto refused recent call-ups because he was unhappy with the way the Cameroon team was being run but he has been persuaded to come back following a meeting with coach Jean-Paul Akono. Akono has left out seven regulars for the friendly with Tanzania as he uses the friendly in Dar-es-Salaam to experiment ahead of the World Cup qualifier against Togo in Yaounde on March 24. Cameroon have three points from two qualifying matches in Group I. – Reuters |
| Retired rider Niermann admits to doping: Dutch federation Posted: 28 Jan 2013 06:43 AM PST BERLIN, Jan 28 – German rider Grischa Niermann, who rode for the Rabobank team for 12 years, has admitted using banned substances to boost his performance, the Dutch cycling federation said today. "Thanks to the people around me I realised in 2003 that banned substances was not the path I wanted to follow. I will give anti-doping bodies and relevant commissions all further information," Niermann was quoted as saying on the federation website (http://www.knwu.nl). The federation said the rider, who retired last year, admitted to using EPO "several times" between 2000-2003. Cycling has long battled a doping problem and this month American Lance Armstrong admitted to doping in all of his seven Tour de France victories after the International Cycling Union (UCI) stripped him of his titles last year. – Reuters |
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