The Spanish Manuel Beltran, of the Liquigas team, positive for EPO consumption At the track cyclist followed him from examinations prior to the Tour AURILLAC, France. The PA spokesman for the cycling team Liquigas said that the Spanish Manuel Beltran not continue in the Tour de France after throwing in a positive EPO doping test. Paolo Barbieri said the rest of the team it will continue. "When will these idiots learn that already finished? They still think they can circumvent the system, but they are wrong. The system is detecting all the time, "said Pat McQuaid, the leader of the Union Cycliste Internationale. Beltran, a Spanish cyclist aged 37, who competed alongside Lance Armstrong for three years as part of U. team S. Postal, was arrested by French police two hours after his test showed positive. The athlete can ask to open a second sample of its review andidopaje, although this rarely saves to athletes. If Beltran requested the opening of the B test also shows positive and will be immediately dismissed from the team, said Barbieri on Friday to the AP. Beltran was the subject of an investigation by the Anti-Doping Agency Franceca before the start of the Tour de France and after their blood tests to be submitted between 3 and July 4 hurled abnormal parameters, said the agency's director, Pierre Bordry, the Associated Press. "Not only is no traces of EPO, there is EPO," Bordry said in a telephone interview. Whether or much worse, EPO is banned. Beltran might not be the only because Bordry added that other rider, so far unidentified, are also being investigated because they had abnormal blood parameters. Moreover, Barbieri said that the French police had been Beltran hotel where the team was staying in the town of Aurillac, where he ran the sétima stage and confirmed that authorities searched the rooms of Liquigas.
