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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
MAY 24, 2013
PONTE DI LEGNO, Italy - Race organizers say former Giro d'Italia winner Danilo Di Luca tested positive for EPO in a surprise test at his home before this year's race.
A one-line announcement on the race's website says the test was carried out at Di Luca's home on April 29. The Giro started May 4 and ends Sunday.
Di Luca stands 26th overall, 33 minutes, 33 seconds behind race leader Vincenzo Nibali.
If confirmed in a backup "B'' sample, Di Luca risks a lifetime ban since this is his third offence.
He tested positive for CERA in the 2009 Giro and received a two-year ban which was subsequently reduced by nine months after he collaborated with Italian anti-doping authorities. He was also banned for three months after winning the 2007 Giro for seeing a banned doctor.
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剛才新聞稿又有更新:
PONTE DI LEGNO, Italy - Former Giro d'Italia winner Danilo Di Luca tested positive for EPO in a surprise test at his home before this year's race, organizers announced Friday.
If confirmed in a backup "B'' sample, Di Luca risks a lifetime ban since this is his third offence.
The 37-year-old Italian rides for the Vini Fantini squad.
The test was carried out April 29, five days before the Giro started, and the result drew a harsh rebuke from Vini Fantini team director Luca Scinto.
"Di Luca is an idiot. I never wanted him," Scinto said. "Di Luca is sick. He needs to be helped."
The race ends Sunday and Di Luca stands 26th overall, 33 minutes, 33 seconds behind overall leader Vincenzo Nibali. In 2009, Di Luca was given a two-year ban after testing positive during the Giro for CERA, an advanced form of the blood booster EPO. That ban was subsequently reduced by nine months after he collaborated with Italian anti-doping authorities.
And after winning the 2007 Giro, Di Luca was banned for three months later in the year for frequent visits to Carlo Santuccione, a physician at the centre of a four-year doping investigation.
Seemingly headed for retirement just a few months ago, Di Luca signed with Vini Fantini just a few days before the surprise test.
He has fared well in several stages, finishing third in the seventh leg, seventh in stage 9, sixth in stage 11 and 10th in Thursday's uphill time trial.
It's the second doping case from this year's race, after French rider Sylvain Georges tested positive for the banned stimulant Heptaminol in a urine sample after the seventh stage. The 28-year-old AG2R La Mondiale rider was immediately withdrawn from the race.
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新聞最後提到這是今年環義的第二起用藥醜聞(前一件是AG2R車手Sylvain Georges)
