Cyclist, Wife Convicted on Doping Charges
BONNEVILLE, France (AP) -- A French court convicted a Lithuanian cyclist and
his wife on doping charges Thursday and gave them suspended four-month
prison sentences.
Raimondas Rumsas, who finished third in the 2002 Tour de France, and his
wife, Edita, did not attend the verdict by the Bonneville criminal court in
the Alps. Both were charged with possessing and importing doping products.
The court also handed a 12-month suspended prison sentence to Polish doctor
Kristof Ficek, who prescribed doping products. The court ordered all three
to pay $1,230 in damages to the French Cycling Federation.
Edita Rusmas was stopped at the French-Italian border on July 28, 2002 - the
last day of that year's Tour de France - with doping products in her car.
She originally claimed they were for her ill mother
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