Italian Francesco De Bonis became the first cyclist to be given a doping ban because of discrepancies in his biological passport.Unlike conventional tests, which can detect the presence of a banned substance, the biological passport monitors swings in blood parameters that may indicate manipulation.The ground-breaking biological passport system, which was pioneered by cycling's world governing body UCI in 2008, may become a strong weapon to catch drug cheats even if they have never been tested positive.Citic International Contracting Inc, a unit of China's State-owned Citic Group, will build 10,000 housing units on the site of a Caracas military base in Venezuela, Bloomberg News reported Sunday, citing Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.Citic is to receive $400 million as a first installment to build the units.The report said Venezuela will use part of a $20-billion loan from China to pay Citic. The project is part of a pledge to close a housing deficit aggravated by heavy rains, according to President Chavez.The company may build a series of 20-story towers on 40 hectares, the report cited Hong Bo, Citic Group's president, as saying. Fifteen-year-old Laura Dekker, aiming to become the youngest person to sail solo around the world, was in good spirits after completing the 2,200 nautical-mile (2,532 land-mile, 4,074-kilometer) trip from the Cape Verde Islands off West Africa.Dekker anchored Guppy, her 38-foot (11.5-meter) ketch, just outside Simpson Bay Lagoon after what she called "a very nice trip" so far. She later steered it into the lagoon as a crowd gathered at the docks and snapped pictures."It's really weird. It's not moving and not bouncy," she told The Associated Press as she tried to find her land legs while strolling in flip-flops along a sidewalk to the Dutch territory's immigration office. "I don't think I can live in a house at the moment."The Dutch teenager started her trip from Gibraltar on August 21 and spent two months in the Canary Islands waiting for the hurricane season to pass. She left the Cape Verde Islands on December 2.

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Through his Young Mercedes strategy with more affordable models, Maier also makes the three-pointed star attainable for more Chinese consumers, with a diversified and dynamic image.Moreover, to get further closer to Chinese customers, Maier helped establish three regional headquarters in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou this year, for demands in North China, East China and South China. In line with the company's booming sales, Maier also put heavy efforts to expand Mercedes' dealership network, with its high and strict global service standard. It will have 166 dealerships by the end of the year and will add 25 to 30 dealers into its national network every year in the future. Maier was in charge of network development at Daimler headquarters in Germany before he came to China.On November 26, when Maier paid a visit to Mercedes' 4S store in Zhuji, a county in Zhejiang province, he said that Mercedes will go to more second and third-tier cities in the future to further tap the potential of the Chinese market.Localization is another achievement Maier has made during his tenure. This year, he appoints three Chinese talents to be the vice-presidents of Mercedes-Benz China, in charge of sales, marketing and public relations issues, indicating his respect to local talent.Having been living in China for almost four years, Maier tried to understand China market and Chinese people through his daily life. One employee from Mercedes-Benz (China) Ltd said: "Mr Maier loves to participate in Mercedes' everything in China, communicating with colleagues, dealers, customers and media.""One must deeply understand the market and customer first, then do a good job in China," said Maier.Also blaming food containing the weight-loss and muscle-building clenbuterol was three-time Tour de France winner Alberto Contador of Spain, who tested on July 21 and the analysis of that sample revealed traces of the banned steroid.The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) rejected Contador's claims that his positive test was caused by contaminated meat bought in Spain. WADA even cited a European Union study from 2008 in which experts tested 300,000 meat samples but found evidence of the possible use of clenbuterol in only one of those.In the meanwhile, American cyclist Floyd Landis, stripped of his 2006 Tour de France title for doping, told media that the use of clenbuterol is widespread in cycling, in one of his many striking remarks which included his attacks on seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong.Landis previously alleged that Armstrong and members of their former US Postal team systematically doped and Armstrong has always denied doping.Many and explosive as the positive cases were, anti-doping experts considered it a proof of their effective work."I want to reiterate that zero tolerance does not mean zero positive case. On the contrary, positive cases prove that the system is working since drug cheats will always exist" said China Anti-Doping Agency deputy head Zhao Jian.ncluding China, many countries and regions, under the unified anti-doping regulation World Anti-doping Code, moved to crack down on doping with more stringent measures apart from traditional drug tests.

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