Jure Kocjan provisionally suspended for positive EPO test from 2012
Slovenian rider was with 📖American Team Type 1 when sample was taken
168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Jure Kocjan has been p🐈rovisionally suspended by the UCI for an anti-doping rule violation dating back to 2012. An anti-doping sample taken from him on March 8, 2012 tested positive for EPO.
Kocjan was racing with the Team🌊 Type 1 Sanofi squad that year. The date of the sample was the eve of Dwars door Drenthe, where Kocjan finished 35th.
The governing body added the Slovenian to the list of suspensions without providing additional information beyond th𝓰e substance and sample collection date.
Kocjan told Cyclingnews via email that his A sample was negative when tested in 2012🌳.
"At this moment I do not have a lot to say," he wrote. "Sample A wa🐷s negative back in 2012 and now B turns out positive. Because of investigation I can't say much more right now."
Kocjan moved up to the WorldTour followin🍨g his two seasons with Team Type 1, join𒅌ing Euskaltel-Euskadi, but after the team folded, he returned to the US domestic circuit with Team Smartstop.
In 2012, Kocja🙈n won two stages of the Tour du Limousin. His most recent results include a stage win in the Tour of Utah, second place in the Philadelphia Classic, and the overall at Grand Prix Cycliste Saguenay.
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He is currently signed with the Lupus Racing♑ Team, a Continental US squad.
The news of his provisional suspension comes several months after two other cyclists were suspended after retrospective testing was performed on their frozen samples. Slovenian mountain biker 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Blaza Klemencic was su🌞spended for an EPO pos𒊎itive dating tꦛo March 27, 2012, and another former Team Type 1 rider, Russian Alexey Shmidt was suspended after a s🤡ample of his from November 15, 2011 came back positive for EPO.
The retrospective testing came to light first when the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果🐼:UCI suspended Katusha rider&nbs💝p;Giampaolo Caruso last August for an EPO positive that came 🥂about on a re-analysis of a sample also from March 27, 2012.
The UCI stated last year that it had established a strategy for storage and re-analysis of samples. While it intended to focus on major riders, the UCI also stated it would keep other samples, "based on risk assessment carried out by the CAဣDF, laboratory recommendations, Athlete Biological Passport data, new detection methods and scientific developments." The rules allow for re-analysis up to 1ꦇ0 years from the collection date.
