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Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) President John Coates has called for 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Stuart O'Grady to resign from his positꦜion on the Athletes' Commission.

O'Grady, along with track gold medallist Anna Meares, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:were elected by their peers at the 🍰London Olympic Games last August for a four-year term. The elected athletes act in an adviꦯsory capacity to the AOC Executive.

"Members of our London Olympic Team who elected Stuart to the Athletes' Commission are entitled to be angry knowing they had supported an athlete wဣho had cheated" AOC President John Coates said in a media release.

"Athletes' Commission members are chosen for th🧜eir qualities of integrity and leadership and by his admission Stuart does not deserve to be a member of tha🔯t group."

Thirty-nine-year-old O'Grady 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:admitted to using EPO before the 1998 Tour de France overnight following the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:release of the French Senate report which alleged that the Paris-Roubaix winner had returnꦿed a suspicious sample for EPO. O'Grady represented Australia🉐 at six Olympic Games both on the track and on the road. He won a gold medal with Graeme Brown in the madison at the Athens Games 

AOC Secretary-General, C꧂raig Phillips, has contacted O'Grady by email asking for his immediate resignation.

Coates was supporting of the report, which💝 covered other sports as well as cycling.

"This was a shameful period for the sport of cycling which has been well documented, that is no excuse for the decision taken by Stuart O'Grady, and one can only hope that cycling and especially the Tour de France is cleaner as a result of today's revelations and the Lance Armstrong saga."