The Bahrain cycling training, which had been targeted by a police operation last year on the big loop, announced that the homes of several runners and members of its supervision had been the subject of excavations.
Le Monde with AFP
The Bahrain-Victorious cycling team is still in the viewfinder. Target last year during the Tour de France of a search, she said in a statement, on the evening of Monday, June 27, that the homes of several runners and members of her supervision had been the subject of excavations at A few days from the kick -off of the 2022 edition.
The survey “which started almost a year ago and gave no results, continues just before the departure of the most important cycling race and undermines the reputation of people and the team, “deplored the training. In her declaration, she claims to cooperate “in a constructive manner in all procedures and with all the competent institutions” and specifies that she has not, to date, have been informed either of the advance or the results of the investigations carried out by the prosecution of Marseille, in charge of this file.
The team adds having “asked several times access to the file or knowledge of the state of the survey, but without success”.
traces of Tizanidine
Following the search made in Pau during the last week of the Tour de France 2021, leaks had revealed last October that traces of Tizanidine, a muscle relaxant used against multiple sclerosis – but not prohibited by the Anti -doping regulations -had been found in the hair analyzes of several runners. The Bahrainian team had then denied having been informed of it and the laboratory had not confirmed the identities of the athletes implicated.
Slovenian Matej Mohoric, Belgian Dylan Teuns, Briton Fred Wright and Australian Jack Haig – who had abandoned well before Pau last year – are the only runners already present during the previous edition and who will be From Copenhagen, the 1 er July. The group was completed by another Slovenian, Jan Tratnik, the Italian Damiano Caruso, 2
The team, including one of the leaders, the Italian Sonny Colbrelli, was the victim in March of a cardiorepiratory arrest, is led by Milan Erzen, as managers general. Slovenian was suspected, in 2020, as part of the Aderlass blood doping case. He had described the accusations as “totally false”.