Quick Step’s Patrick Lefevere has been awarded damages of 500,000 euros after a court in Brussels ruled this week that allegations made by three Belgian journalists of a long-term doping programme within the team manager’s squads were based upon unreliable sources. The court has ordered the three journalists, whose report entitled “Patrick Lefevere, 30 years of dope” was published in Belgian daily Het Laatste Nieuws in January 2007, to pay Lefevere the sum, plus court costs. The three …

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Lefevere awarded €500,000 by Belgian court