A court in Madrid has convicted a Spanish doctor over his involvement in one of the biggest doping scandals in cycling.
Eufemiano Fuentes was found guilty of endangering the lives of cyclists and other athletes by giving them blood transfusions to boost their performance.
He was given a suspended prison sentence of one year, struck off as a medical doctor for four years and fined 4650 euros ($US6000).
Fuentes was charged under public health laws because doping was not illegal in Spain at the time.
A former cycle team official was sentenced to four months in prison and three other defendants were cleared.
The BBC reports police found some 200 bags of frozen blood and plasma when they raided Fuentes' offices in 2006.
During the trial, Fuentes said he had worked with athletes, footballers and boxers, as well as cyclists, though he did not say whether he had helped them dope.
The bags of blood found in his offices were labelled with codenames, which were believed to relate to well-known cyclists and possibly other athletes.
