Hamburg - German cyclist Stefan Schumacher has lodged an appeal against a doping ban at the Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS).

The CAS confirmed on Wednesday it received the according letter from Schumacher's lawyer Michael Lehner. A date for a hearing is yet to be announced.

Schumacher won two time trials at the 2008 Tour de France and wore the overall leader's yellow jersey for two days at the famed race before retests of his Tour samples in autumn revealed that he had used the latest generation of the blood booster EPO, known as CERA.

Adelaide, Australia  - Australian former cycling world champion Jobie Dajka has been found dead in his home in Adelaide, the TV channel Nine Network said Tuesday.

A cause of death was not given.

The 27-year-old, who won the keirin world championship in 2002 and a year later won the silver medal, had a troubled history since being thrown off the Australian Olympic team in 2004 for lying during an investigation into drug use.

Sydney - Australian-born cyclist Heinrich Haussler wants to ride in the green and gold of his homeland rather than represent his adopted country of Germany.

"I've noticed that I feel more Australian than German," the rising star of European road racing was quoted as saying Tuesday.

"In 2010, I will ride for Australia. My decision is final," Haussler told the cyclingnews website.

Haussler, 25, was born in Inverell, New South Wales, but moved to Germany at the age of 14 to take up a scholarship at a German sports school.

Vienna  - A blood centrifuge that was allegedly used to dope Austrian cyclist Bernhard Kohl has been possibly found in Budapest, Austrian police said Monday.

Investigations were ongoing to confirm whether the machine found Saturday by Hungarian police in a private home was the one operated by Kohl's former manager Stefan Matschiner, according to a police spokesperson in Vienna.

Vienna - A blood centrifuge that was allegedly used to dope Austrian cyclist Bernhard Kohl has been possibly found in Budapest, Austrian police said Monday.

Investigations were ongoing to confirm whether the machine found Saturday by Hungarian police in a private home was the one operated by Kohl's former manager Stefan Matschiner, according to a police spokesperson in Vienna.

Vienna  - Austria's cycling doping scandal widened Thursday as three more people were detained, according to media reports.

The reports come on top of four arrests of alleged doping suppliers in March.

The latest development came after Stefan Matschiner, the former manager of disgraced Austrian cyclist Bernhard Kohl, was detained Monday night for allegedly supplying athletes with a range of performance-enhancing substances and blood transfusions.