11.   U.S. Postal sporting director Johan Bruyneel said neither he nor any member of the team in the United States has been approached by French officials about an investigation.

12.   Tournament director Jean-Marie Leblanc immediately asked the sporting directors of competing teams to meet to resolve the crisis.

13.   Who can still believe that a single team doctor, a single sporting director, a single event organizer knows nothing?

14.   Inter vice-president Visconti di Modrone and sporting director Sandro Mazzola drew up the terms of the deal in talks here with their Sheffield counterparts.

15.   It reportedly named riders, their doctors and sporting directors involved in the use and prescription of banned drugs, according to the Italian press.

16.   The player accused Maccabi Tel Aviv President Shimon Mizrahi and his sporting director Ami Eshed of organising the scam in Moscow so they could sign him.

17.   Veteran German striker Rudi Voller will hang up his boots at the end of this season to become sporting director of his current club, Bayer Leverkusen.

18.   Voller is to become sporting director with Bundesliga club Bayer Leverkusen.

19.   Sporting director Carlo Regalia has taken a lot of the credit.

20.   Stomach problems amongst ONCE riders may cause problems in the run-in to the event but sporting director Manolo Saiz refused to reveal the extent of the problems.