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UCI logo 2015UCI to suspend Androni-Giocattoli after second rider tests positive
The UCI has announced that Italian UCI Professional Continental team Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec will be suspended from racing for between 15 and 45 days after a second rider tested positive for a banned substance.
World cycling’s governing body announced today that the team’s 30-year-old rider Fabio Taborre had tested positive for FG-4592 in a sample collected during an out-of-competition test on 16 June 2015.
The substance, originally developed for use in patients with chronic kidney disease boosts the body’s ability to produce EPO.
Taborre has the right to request an analysis of his B sample and in the meantime has been provisionally suspended.
The news comes just four weeks after another rider from the team run by Gianni Savio, the former Team Sky sprinter Davide Appollonio, tested positive for EPO following an out-of-competition test on 14 June 2015.
Under rules that came into force at the start of this year, a second positive test for riders on the same team inside a 12 month period result in a suspension ranging from 15 to 45 days for the team as a whole.
The UCI said it would “refer the matter to the Disciplinary Commission which will render a decision in the upcoming days.”
Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him.
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I actually prefer watching the racing than all this dope cobblers but like Columbo: "There's just one thing that bothers me"....
The clean riders are now faster than the self-confessed/outed EPO generation.
http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/latest-news/faster-than-lance-richie...
How can that be possible? Better to suspend disbelief and enjoy le spectacle
If you look up the teams history then 'only a matter of time' is the first thing that comes to mind.
Glad there are now rules which actually punish the management as well as the riders though.
I blame Froome!
Small fry dopers caught again trying to catch-up with the clean elite! Why dope when it clearly doesn't work?
We don't know whether it works or not, as we can only know about the ones that get caught. It is impossible toprove a negative, and suspicion will carry on. And new drugs will carry on being developed, one step ahead of the testers.
Sad, but true.
I think you missed my point - I don't for a minute believe the elite riders are clean when the lesser riders / teams clearly aren't!
I think you missed my point - I don't for a minute believe the elite riders are clean when the lesser riders / teams clearly aren't!
I think you missed my point - I don't for a minute believe the elite riders are clean when the lesser riders / teams clearly aren't!
I think you missed my point - I don't for a minute believe the elite riders are clean when the lesser riders / teams clearly aren't!
True, but this ruling has only been in place since January and i believe Astana were all last year ?
Don't worry, we're still only halfway through the season. They'll catch up soon.
Huh? But didn't Astana have more busts than that and no ban?