Nevado tests positive at TDF
2008-07-16 10:14
France - A top French anti-doping official says Spanish rider Moises Duenas Nevado has tested positive for EPO during the Tour de France.
A French police official says authorities are approaching the rider - currently 19th in the overall Tour standings after 10 stages - at the hotel of his Barloworld team in the southwestern town of Tarbes.
Pierre Bordry, the head of the French anti-doping agency, says Duenas Nevado tested positive for the banned blood booster after the fourth stage on July 8 in Cholet, the site of the race's first time trial.
The case marks the second positive EPO test this year involving a Tour rider. Spanish veteran Manuel Beltran was questioned by police and sent home after testing positive after the first stage.
- AP