1996 Tour de France winner Bjarne Riis, who is now the owner and manager of Team CSC, admitted doping in a Friday press conference at CSC headquarters in Lyngby, just outside Copenhagen. The Dane, who was then riding for Team Telekom, said he took EPO in 1996, the year that he ended Miguel Indurain's five-year Tour de France winning streak.
Riis had be called "Mr. 60%", a derisive nickname referring to his heavy EPO use (which boosted his hemocit to 60%). It'll be interesting to see what happens at CSC now (where, by the way, Basso was riding when he got wrapped up in the Fuentes/Puerto affair).
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