Cycling: Museeuw, Peers and Planckaert banned

10/8/2004
Retired Classics star Johan Museeuw, and fellow Belgians Chris Peers and Jo Planckaert have been banned for two years by their federation after a hearing held behind closed doors.

PICTURE BY TIM DE WAELE

The Belgian cycling federation (LVB) has banned Johan Museeuw, Chris Peers and Jo Planckaert for four years, two of them suspended, and fined them 6,500 euros for breaking the federation’s regulations on doping. The bans relate to information obtained during an ongoing case in Kortrijk involving veterinarian José Landuyt and soigneur Herman Versele, who are on trial for alleged trafficking of hormones and doping products.