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Eurosport - Wed, 16 Jul 10:14:00 2008
Spain's Moises Duenas Nevado tested positive for the blood boosting drug EPO after the fourth stage of the Tour de France, according to the French anti-doping agency.
The 27-year-old Barloworld rider was immediately withdrawn from the race by his team after he became the second Spaniard in less than a week to fail a drugs test.
"We notified Moises Duenas Nevado that he had tested positive for EPO after the fourth stage this morning,"AFLD president Pierre Bordry said.
Police raided the hotel were Duenas Nevado's team were staying before the start of Wednesday's 11th stage and left with the rider who was to be questioned, witnesses said.
"This is unbelievable," Barloworld team manager Claudio Corti said. "I don't understand. I didn't even have time to talk to him."
Rocked in recent years by a number of doping scandals, this year's race had been free of controversy until last Friday, when Liquigas rider Manuel Beltran was arrested by French police after it was announced he had tested positive, also for EPO.
Duenas Nevado had been 19th in General Classification, six minutes and 43 seconds behind leader Cadel Evans.
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What are these idiots doing
still love the tour
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*****king hell! you'd think they would've learnt by now. should have IQ tests instead of drug tests at the start of the tour to weed out these *****s. this bloke (never heard of him) and beltran wouldn't have been allowed to start and this could've been avoided
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unfortunatly these idiots still think they can get away with it. it really annoys me as it give the sport and all the clean riders such a bad name.
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 , really does sh1.t me
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whoever wins this will always have a cloud hanging over them no matter who it is, Cycling has lost all respectibility
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Actually I think its good news that these people are being caught - thats the only way to get any credibility back into cycling.
Apparently they drug tested everyone on day 1, found a few anomolies in some cyclists so have been doing 'spot' drug tests on a few select individuals.
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Someone sadistic like me would say: This is what's really cool about the Tour...
But I can't say it and mean it.
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Bill O'Reilly wrote:whoever wins this will always have a cloud hanging over them no matter who it is, Cycling has lost all respectibility They've been saying that for years but the Tour keeps on keeping on like an energizer battery.
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