Corti ‘shocked’ by Duenas Nevado’s positive test

BARLOWORLD have been swift to distance themselves from the positive EPO test returned by their Spanish rider, Moises Duenas Nevado.

Duenas Nevado, 27, has been withdrawn from the Tour de France by his team following raids by French police on their hotel in Tarbes. The French anti-doping agency reported that the rider’s A sample related to the fourth stage of the race, the Cholet time-trial on July 8. “I’m shocked,” Barloworld team manager Claudio Corti said.

“However the one thing I will say is that the team is not involved in this story at all.”