PARIS (AP) — Three members of the Ukraine team riding in the Tour de l'Avenir have been charged with possession and use of doping products.
L’Equipe
sports daily reported Monday that the riders, whose identities were not
revealed, were taken into custody Saturday before being released after
admitting to blood doping.
“Nothing can allow us to say that the
whole team is concerned,” Vesoul prosecutor Jean-Francois Parietti was
quoted as saying on the paper’s Web site. “For the moment, it seems
that we are confronted to individual doping.”
Parietti was not immediately available for comment.
According to L’Equipe, the team physio and the father of one of the riders have also been charged.
Romain Sicard of France won Sunday’s race.
