Cooke to sue over drug allegations
04-12-04, 09:47 PM
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Cooke to sue over drug allegations
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Falchoon
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Registered: Oct 2002
Location: Oz https://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004...1621934862.html
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"Top Australian rider Baden Cooke is to sue a French newspaper over an article suggesting he injected himself with a banned stimulant.
Tuesday's edition of Le Monde publishes extracts from a telephone ccnversation recorded by the police in September 2001.
In it French cyclist Philippe Boyer, who was handed a one year prison sentence last year for drug trafficking, is claimed to be talking to a supposed friend of Cooke's, a woman called Sandrine.
She tells Boyer that Cooke, who won the Tour de France green points jersey last year, had felt unwell after injecting himself with amphetamines.
"He had flashes in his eyes and he was trembling like mad," she is reported to have told Boyer.
Against Boyer's advice the article says she called a doctor and told him that she and her friend "had taken amphetamines to go out".
Cooke refuted the allegations.
"I absolutely deny the alleged facts and the insinuations which suggest I'm a drug addict," Cooke said in a statement released by his lawyer, Jean-Marc Allery.
"I am forced to start immediate legal proceedings against the paper," added the Fdjeux.com rider.
Boyer for his part is quoted by Le Monde as saying: "I met Baden Cooke through a mutual acquaintance, Sandrine, who was at that time his friend.
Falchoon
Senior Member
Registered: Oct 2002
Location: Oz https://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004...1621934862.html
Quote:
"Top Australian rider Baden Cooke is to sue a French newspaper over an article suggesting he injected himself with a banned stimulant.
Tuesday's edition of Le Monde publishes extracts from a telephone ccnversation recorded by the police in September 2001.
In it French cyclist Philippe Boyer, who was handed a one year prison sentence last year for drug trafficking, is claimed to be talking to a supposed friend of Cooke's, a woman called Sandrine.
She tells Boyer that Cooke, who won the Tour de France green points jersey last year, had felt unwell after injecting himself with amphetamines.
"He had flashes in his eyes and he was trembling like mad," she is reported to have told Boyer.
Against Boyer's advice the article says she called a doctor and told him that she and her friend "had taken amphetamines to go out".
Cooke refuted the allegations.
"I absolutely deny the alleged facts and the insinuations which suggest I'm a drug addict," Cooke said in a statement released by his lawyer, Jean-Marc Allery.
"I am forced to start immediate legal proceedings against the paper," added the Fdjeux.com rider.
Boyer for his part is quoted by Le Monde as saying: "I met Baden Cooke through a mutual acquaintance, Sandrine, who was at that time his friend.
