Hamburg - Former officials of the now defunct Gerolsteiner cycling team said on Wednesday that Austrian rider Bernhard Kohl showed no indication of using forbidden doping substances.

Then team boss Hans-Michael Holczer said that Kohl was "not even suspicious" until he was found to have used the third generation of the blood booster EPO, known as CERA, at the 2008 Tour de France.

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.

Vienna  - Stefan Matschiner, the former manager of disgraced Austrian cyclist Bernhard Kohl, was arrested Monday night following allegations by Kohl and an Austrian triathlete that he had supplied substances for doping.

Matschiner's lawyer denied that his client had supplied blood boosters to the two athletes, although he admitted another form of doping.

Vienna  - Stefan Matschiner, the former manager of disgraced Austrian cyclist Bernhard Kohl, was arrested Monday night following allegations by an Austrian triathlete that she had received illicit substances from him, the Kurier newspaper reported Tuesday.

Matschiner's arrest came after Lisa Huetthaler, the 2007 military triathlon world champion, told Kurier last week that he had supplied her with the blood booster EPO and the hormone testosterone.

Valladolid, Spain  - The lowly Vuelta of Castilla and Leon cleared up more issues than expected in the duel between US cycling legend Lance Armstrong and young Spaniard Alberto Contador for leadership of the Astana team.

Armstrong, 37, crashed in the first stage of the race and withdrew with a broken collarbone.

With the injury, he leaves team leadership to his challenger without a great show of force by either. More importantly, Armstrong's training is greatly jeopardized ahead of the Tour de France in July.

Valladolid, Spain  - Lance Armstrong broke his right collarbone when he fell Monday in the first stage of the Vuelta of Castilla and Leon cycling race, the race's organizers confirmed.

The US cycling legend, 37, underwent tests at the Hospital Clinico in the northwestern Spanish city of Valladolid, but was set to leave hospital later Monday, after receiving treatment and painkillers to alleviate his condition, organizers added.