MILLAR SET TO BE ACQUITTED

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Suspended prison terms have been asked for by the prosecutor for the ex-members of the Cofidis team on trial for doping, but one - Briton David Millar - will almost certainly be acquitted.

On the fourth day of the week-long trial in Paris, Nanterre, prosecutor Jacques Hossaert said that Millar and the other riders charged have ?already paid a lot.? Given it was unclear where the Scot had actually taken the banned drug EPO - Millar has said it was in Italy and Spain, but not in France - it was impossible to apply French law in the case of the former Cofidis rider.

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