EXTRA: Cyclist Kohl names former manager as doping supplier

Cyclist Kohl names former manager as doping supplier Vienna  - Disgraced Austrian cyclist Bernhard Kohl on Tuesday publicly named his former manager Stefan Matschiner as his supplier of a wide range of doping substances, following Matschiner's arrest Monday night.

Kohl was stripped of his third place in the 2008 Tour de France for using the blood booster CERA, also known as third-generation EPO.

Since 2005, Matschiner had sold Kohl EPO, growth hormone, testosterone and insulin, as well as carrying out performance- enhancing blood transfusions, the athlete told reporters Tuesday evening.

He said the last such transfusion took place last September, at a time when Austria had made such practices illegal under a new anti- doping law.

Before Matschiner's arrest, Kohl met with police officials from a newly-formed doping task force on Monday.

"I told them everything I could say about Matschiner and about my CERA supplier," who was a different person, Kohl said.

In addition, Kohl told police about athletes he knows to have doped as well, he said. (dpa)

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