RASMUSSEN ADMITS LYING TO UCI

Michael Rasmussen Tour de France 2007 yellow jersey

Michael Rasmussen has admitted he was not in Mexico before the Tour de France - as he has previously claimed - and revealed that his Rabobank team knew where he was.

Rasmussen tried to come clean during a press conference in Copenhagen on Thursday and also supplied a list of his haematocrit and haemoglobin values from during the 2007 season (below) in a desperate attempt to find a team for 2008.

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