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Auto racing

Gordon, Johnson take big hit

Jeff Gordon and Jimmie Johnson were docked 100 points each Tuesday, and their crew chiefs were both fined $100,000 and suspended for six races for violations at Infineon Raceway.

The two Hendrick Motorsports cars failed an initial inspection Friday in Sonoma, Calif., when NASCAR officials found unapproved modifications to the fenders on their Chevrolets.

NASCAR refused to let either driver on the track the entire day, and neither was allowed to qualify.

But the fenders were fixed, the cars passed inspection Saturday and were allowed to race Sunday.

Gordon, the four-time series champion, finished seventh while defending Nextel Cup champion Johnson placed 17th.

Gordon remains the Nextel Cup points leader after the deduction, but his margin was cut to 171 points over Denny Hamlin. Johnson dropped from third to fifth.

But both will have to race through the summer without their crew chiefs.

Cycling

Riders must sign anti-doping charter

The Tour de France won’t accept riders who refuse to sign a new anti-doping charter.

Cycling’s governing body, the UCI, introduced the charter June 19 and asked all 600 ProTour cyclists to sign. Tour director Christian Prudhomme said the race will, if necessary, go to the Court of Arbitration for Sport to try to reject riders who refuse to sign.

“We will oppose the presence at the start of the Tour de France of riders who have not signed the UCI’s anti-doping charter,” Prudhomme said in an interview with French newspaper Le Monde. The Tour starts July 7.

The UCI asked riders to pledge they are not involved in doping and that they will submit DNA samples to Spanish authorities probing a massive doping ring there. In the statement, cyclists also pledge to pay a year’s salary on top of their two-year ban if found guilty of drug use.

The UCI will publish on its Web site a list of those cyclists who sign.