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Piepoli wants B-sample tested
Leonardo Piepoli, one of seven riders to fail drug tests at the Tour de France, has demanded a counter-test, according to the French national anti-doping agency (AFLD) on Wednesday.
Piepoli, one of four who tested positive for a new strain of a banned blood booster EPO called CERA, will be controlled in the coming weeks AFLD said, without giving further details.
Last month Austria's Bernhard Kohl became the seventh positive doping case after being controlled retroactively for CERA, joining Italians Piepoli and Riccardo Ricco and Germany's Stefan Schumacher.
Ricco, the winner of two climbing stages, was ejected from the Tour along with his Saunier Duval team after urine samples belonging to the Italian revealed traces of CERA.
Ricco followed Spanish duo Manuel Beltran, of Liquigas, and Barloworld rider Moises Duenas in leaving the race, both of whom tested positive for EPO.
On the race's final day it was revealed that Dmitri Fofonov, a Kazakh who rides for Credit Agricole, tested positive for a banned stimulant. He has since been banned for three months.
The AFLD recently pioneered a new blood test for CERA, originally believed to be difficult to detect, the latest generation of a drug which has been in use in endurance sports since the early 1990s.
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