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Monday, 28 November 2005 |
Tour of Spain champion Roberto Heras faces 2-year ban for dope
Tour of Spain champion Roberto Heras faces a two-year suspension from
cycling after a Spanish laboratory confirmed he used the banned
blood-boosting drug EPO.
Roberto Heras, 31, had insisted he was innocent after an initial sample
taken at this year's Vuelta tested positive. But EPO has also been
found in the Spaniard's second 'B' sample.
"I want to reiterate that I've never taken any doping substance, not in the Vuelta or any other race," said Roberto Heras.
Roberto Heras's Liberty Seguros team issued a statement saying he would
be sacked as soon as they received notice of the positive test from
world cycling's governing body the UCI.
A four-time winner of his home tour, Roberto Heras will be stripped of
his 2005 Tour victory, with runner-up Denis Menchov declared the
winner. Earlier this week Roberto Heras argued there had been a
laboratory mix-up and that the testing process was flawed.
"It would have been madness to have committed a doping
offence," said Heras. "It would have been incomprehensible and absurd,"
Roberto Heras said.
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