SYDNEY: Australias five-time Olympic gold medallist Ian Thorpe will sue the French newspaper LEquipe and one of its journalists for defamation over a drugs controversy, his spokesman said yesterday.
The French sports newspaper in March last year published details of a urine sample Thorpe returned in May 2006 that showed abnormal levels of testosterone and leutenising hormone.
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