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Four Horses doped - disqualified in Beijing

by eibo.richter | August 21, 2008 at 11:09 pm

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The German rider, Christian Ahlmann, has been suspended from the olympic games. His horse Coester failed a doping test. The banned substance Capsaicin was found found in the horse on Sunday, what the German equestrian association confirmed yesterday. The International Equestrian Federation suspended the 33-year-old rider, meaning he will not be able to compete for Germany in the individual final in Hong Kong.

But Christian Ahlmann was not the only rider in the championship whose hores was tested positive on Capsaicin: the Norwegian Tony Andre Hansen, the Irish rider Denis Lynch and the Brasilian Bernardo Alves were suspended with their horses.

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Milieunet

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at 23:42 on August 21st, 2008

eibo.richter, I like this story. It's good stuff.

Doping horses?? Sports should be clean, even the horses !!!!

eibo.richter

at 23:45 on August 21st, 2008

Yeah. Clean games should be a matter of course

Thy for adding a pic!

patgarcia

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at 04:14 on August 22nd, 2008

eibo.richter, I like this story. It's good stuff.

Marcel Pellerin

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at 04:27 on August 22nd, 2008

eibo.richter, I like this story. It's good stuff.

DISQUALIFIED showjumper Denis Lynch last night pleaded his innocence as Ireland was plunged into another Olympic dope-test scandal.

Speaking at a specially convened press conference, the distraught rider held up the substance that caused his horse to fail a drugs-test just hours before he was due to compete in the show jumping final.

"I have nothing to hide, I didn't do anything wrong -- I've brought this here for you to see," he said, holding up a tub of Equi-Block, which contains the banned substance capsaicin
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