FILE PHOTO: 2016 Rio Olympics - Cycling Road - Final - Men's Individual Time Trial - Pontal - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - 10/08/2016. Georg Preidler (AUT) of Austria competes. REUTERS/Matthew Childs
PARIS (Reuters) - Austrian cyclist Georg Preidler on Monday admitted to cheating amid an investigation into blood doping that brought down five skiers at the Nordic skiing world championships last week.
Preidler, who was part of the French elite team Groupama-FDJ, told the Kronen newspaper that he could not 'live with this secret any longer' after skiers from Austria, Kazakhstan and Estonia were arrested last Wednesday in anti-doping raids in the Austrian resort of Seefeld.
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