Fourteen-time Paralympic Gold Medalist SARAH STOREY launched a "new British elite women's cycling team" with husband BARNEY. Storey, 39, is Great Britain's "most successful female Paralympian," with 25 medals for cycling and swimming, while Barney, 39, won three Golds as a pilot (BBC, 3/18). ... A "top sports doctor will be summoned to parliament to answer questions about why he secretly gave an infusion of a performance-enhancing substance" to MO FARAH before he ran the London marathon. ROBIN CHAKRAVERTY admitted giving Farah an infusion of the chemical L-carnitine, which Farah’s American coach "heralded as a wonder drug" with "incredible" effects after testing it on his athletes. UK Athletics claimed the infusion "did not breach anti-doping rules but it has been reported that proper records were not kept of the medical procedure" (LONDON TIMES, 3/19). ... UEFA exec committee member MARIOS LEFKARITIS of Cyprus is "to exit" int'l football politics. The European governing body said that the 70-year-old Lefkaritis has "withdrawn as a candidate in an April 5 election to retain his seat on the committee." UEFA gave no reason (AP, 3/17). ... Former Olympic heptathlon champion JESSICA ENNIS-HILL announced she is "expecting a second child." Ennis-Hill, 31, won a Gold Medal at the 2012 London Games and a Silver in Rio de Janeiro, already has a son (BBC, 3/16). ... The 1967 Tour de France champion, ROGER PINGEON, died, aged 76. The former rider, who also won the overall classification at the Vuelta a España in '69, "passed away after suffering a heart attack at his home in Ain, France, according to the French media" (CYCLING NEWS, 3/19). ... JOHN SAGER, a 32-year-old lawyer from California, "announced that he will run in La Liga side Eibar's presidential election." Sager is the founder of U.S. fan club Peña EibarUSA (MARCA, 3/19).
