21.   The top-ranked Festina team was expelled after officials and riders admitted to a systematic doping program.

22.   The Telekom rider was criticial of the Festina team, which was kicked out of the tour after its officials and riders were implicated in a systematic doping program.

23.   Chinese sports officials have angrily insisted that there is no concerted doping program.

24.   FINA faces the same humiliation from future drug cheats it faced when an extensive East German doping program was revealed, Leonard said.