[Coolhand]

Sylvain Georges Positive For Heptaminol | Cyclingnews.com

AG2R rider out of Giro d'Italia

Sylvain Georges (Ag2R La Mondiale) has returned a positive test for Heptaminol, according to the UCI. The sport’s governing body announced the news on the same morning that Georges failed to start stage 11 of the Giro d’Italia, with the results returned by WADA’s accredited lab in Rome.

insert racing at two speeds joke here. . . .

 

[Local Hero]

I've never heard of the drug until now. But according to wiki this clown is not the first to use it.

Heptaminol - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

It is classified as a doping substance. In 2008, the cyclist Dmitriy Fofonov was tested positive at the Tour de France. In 2010 June the swimmer Frédérick Bousquet was tested positive for the substance, allegedly for buying a medicine from the pharmacy.

 

[spade2you]

I've never heard of it. It's a little interesting that riders are testing positive for obscure drugs.

 

[Skaha]

I've never heard of it. It's a little interesting that riders are testing positive for obscure drugs.

Like this one... GW1516
That is a truly scary drug.

 

[DIRT BOY]

I thought the French don't dope? LMAO!

 

[davidka]

AG2r is sitting out the Dauphine. Will ASO show consistency and ban them from TdF this year?

 

[spade2you]

AG2r is sitting out the Dauphine. Will ASO show consistency and ban them from TdF this year?

IDK, AG2r doesn't have that bad of a history. There are a lot of teams that should be banned from events ahead of AG2r.

 

[Salsa_Lover]

Like this one... GW1516
That is a truly scary drug.

How an idiot has to be someone to dope with a proven cancer inducing drug ?

 

[spade2you]

How an idiot has to be someone to dope with a proven cancer inducing drug ?

It's not like testosterone, EPO, or blood transfusions weren't without possible severe side effects.