Two days after the announcement of a positive test for Alexander Serebryakov, the UCI now announced another positive EPO result for the rider.
On the 4th of July a positive result for EPO from an out-of-competition test on the 18th of March 2013 was announced, and the 25-year-old Euskaltel-Euskadi rider was provisionally suspended.
Yesterday came the announcement that a sample taken from the Russian rider on the 21st of February 2012 (when Serebryakov was riding for Team Type 1) has been re-tested at the UCI’s request at the WADA laboratory in Köln, presumably using a newly-developed test that can detect EPO for longer periods of time after administration. Traces of the doping product were found in this sample, too. With two positives, Serebryakov may now face a more severe suspension.
Finally, it is striking that together with the Novikov positive, three positives of two different Russian riders have been announced in the last week – the same week that UCI president Pat McQuaid accused UCI presidential candidate Brian Cookson of essentially being a strawman, suspecting Katusha team owner and Russian cycling federation president Igor Makarov of pulling the strings behind Cookson’s candidacy. This may of course just be a coincidence, but it is a strange coincidence nonetheless.
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