Update | Stuart O'Grady faces loss of Olympic medals
Action may follow admission that he took EPO during 1998 Tour de France
Australian cyclist Stuart O'Grady could be stripped of his Olympic medals after admitting to using performance-boosting drugs at the 1998 Tour de France.
O'Grady, who retired this week, told a newspaper he had used the banned blood-booster erythropoietin (EPO) before the notorious 1998 Tour.
The admission came after a French Senate inquiry named him among riders with "suspicious" test results in a damning report into the 1998 race.
A successful Olympic track cyclist, O'Grady won a madison gold at the 2004 Athens Games, following a team pursuit silver at the 1992 Barcelona Games and a pair of bronzes at Atlanta in 1996.
"It's sad," Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) spokesman Mike Tancred said yesterday.
"He won't be remembered as a fantastic competitor that we all thought he was. Instead he'll be remembered as an athlete who succumbed to the temptation of drugs in sport just to get an edge on his fellow riders.