adminAustralian Michael Rogers has been provisionally suspended after failing a positive test for the banned anabolic agent clenbuterol, the International Cycling Union said yesterday.
“The UCI advised Australian rider Michael Rogers that he is provisionally suspended,” the governing body said in a statement. The decision to provisionally suspend this rider was made in response to a report from the WADA-accredited laboratory in Tokyo indicating an adverse analytical finding of clenbuterol in a urine sample collected from him in a test during the Japan Cup Cycle Road Race on 20 October 2013.”
At this year’s Tour de France, Japan Cup winner Rogers was a road captain in the Saxo-Tinkoff team of Alberto Contador — who was banned for two years after a failed test for clenbuterol on the 2010 edition of the world’s greatest cycling race. The Spaniard argued he ate contaminated food but the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) eventually found him guilty. — Reuters.
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