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Pro Cycling team Rabobank board member and chief team doctor, Leinders, receives lifetime ban for multiple anti-doping rule violations

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January 22, 2015 – The United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA), Anti-Doping Denmark (ADD), and Anti-Doping Authority Netherlands (Doping autoriteit), announced today that a three member panel of the American Arbitration Association North American Court of Arbitration for Sport (AAA), rendered its decision in the case of Dr. Geert Leinders, of Belgium, imposing a lifetime ban for his doping violations committed while he was the Chief Team Doctor and a member of the Board of Directors for the Rabobank professional cycling team.