Botvinov given suspended 4-month term in dope case

    May 10, 2012

    Former Austrian cross-country skier Mikhail Botvinov has been given a suspended four-month prison term for giving false testimony as a witness in a doping case against ex-Nordic coach Walter Mayer.

    A regional court ruled on Wednesday that Botvinov falsely denied having had his blood taken at a Vienna lab, which Mayer allegedly used to help numerous athletes with blood doping between 2003-06....