PARIS (Reuters) - Former Vuelta champion Laurent Jalabert expressed surprise on Monday at a French newspaper report which said he used the banned drug erythropoietin in 1998. "It's a surprise. Obviously I rode in the 1990s," Jalabert told French radio RTL, a station he is a pundit for. "As I said during my hearing at the Senate, I always trusted my three teams. "I'm taking a blow. I don't know whether there will be other names, if there will be evidence. I cannot challenge this because I don't have evidence," the 1997 time trial world champion added. "I have not been informed. ...
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