Cycling-3 riders fail blood tests at world champs
(Reuters)
Updated: 2006-09-21 10:43 Three riders failed pre-race blood tests on the
first day of the cycling road race world championships on Wednesday.
Martin Garrido and Matias Medici of Argentina and Magno Nazaret of Brazil
were found to have blood haematocrit values above the 50 percent limit allowed
and were declared unfit to take part.
They will be suspended for two weeks and will have to undergo a urine test to
detect if they took the banned blood-boosting drug Erythropoietin.
A total of 18 riders from Brazil, Argentina, Switzerland, Australia and the
USA were tested.
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