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Tired Austrians Furious After Doping Raid (20.2.2006)

PRAGELATO, Italy - With his team's big race approaching, Austrian cross-country skier Martin Tauber stayed awake all night. It wasn't nerves keeping him up. It was paramilitary police. Just when Tauber was ready for a good night's sleep Saturday, Italian authorities stormed into the Austrian athletes' housing, conducting an unprecedented search for evidence of doping. (19 February 2006, by JANIE McCAULEY, AP Sports Writer)

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