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CYCLIST BITTEN 
By: Gary Mudie
Date: 18/02/2001

31-01-2001

CYCLIST BITTEN BY MONKEY

Italian champion cyclist Paolo Bettini, who won the prestigious
Liege-Bastogne-Liege race last year, was bitten by a female monkey while
training on Wednesday.

Bettini was bitten while training in Malaysia for the Tour of Langkawi,
Bettini's Mapei team said.

Bettini and a group of riders were giving the monkey some sweets when,
after a brusque movement by Bettini, it got scared and bit him on the left
knee.

The Mapei rider was given antibiotics as a precaution after medical
advice.

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