OPERACION PUERTO: IT'S BACK

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A Spanish panel of judges has ordered the re-opening of anti-doping probe Operacion Puerto. Some 60 cyclists, many of them now retired from the sport, were originally implicated in the case.

It has been over a year since judge Antonio Serrano ordered the closing of the case because Spain's new doping law was not in place at the time. At the heart of the case are doctors Eufemiano Fuentes and Jose Luis Merino Batres, arrested in Madrid when news of the anti-doping investigation broke.

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