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Filip Meirhaeghe (born 5 March 1971, Ghent) is a Belgian racing cyclist. He has won four Mountain Bike World Championships medals (2003 World Champion XC), one Olympic medal (silver at Sydney 2000) and a total of eleven mountain bike World Cup events. In the final years of his racing career he raced for the bicycle manufacturer Specialized Bicycle Components on the mountain bike and for the professional team Domina Vacanze-Elitron on the road.
*On 29 July 2004, just before the 2004 Summer Olympics, Meirhaeghe admitted to having used EPO. He tested positive during the World Cup in Mont Sainte-Anne, Quebec (Canada) and unlike most racers did not argue the validity of the test. During a press conference he admitted he used EPO simply because of his desire to win gold at the Olympic Games in Athens. He also announced at that time he would stop racing and retire. He wrote a book called Positief, which tells the story of his life as an athlete and the consequences of his positive test. Filip was suspended from professional racing based on his positive test result until 14 January 2006. On 1 January 2006 he announced he would resume racing. He signed a three year contract to race for Landbouwkrediet-Colnago on the road and Versluys-Landbouwkrediet-Sportstech on mountain bikes. He made his come back during the beach-race of Oostduinkerke (Belgium). He retired again in September 2009.
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