Turtur: Caruso positive in 2003 was not his responsibity to publicise
Race organisers excluded in anti-doping process



Tour Down Under race director Mike Turtur does not believe it was up to the organisation to publicise the fact that ONCE-Eroski rider 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Giampaolo Caruso retu𒆙rned a positive dope test after winning the .
Caruso tested positive for Nandralone on January 25 and later that year re🔜ceived a six-month suspension and a $2000 fine. He would later be named as part of Operación Puerto but despite Italian Olympic Committee protests, was acquitted by the Court of Arbitration for Sport. He currently rides for Katusha.
, that it was not his responsibility to reveal Caruso's transgression."It would have been published on the (International Cycling Union's) UCI website that he was found to be in violation of the code and that's h👍ow it's dealt with," Turtur said.
"Race organisers don't go around publicising or advertising or making a point of any doping infr♊ingements because it's not their job or their responsibility.
"The orꦏganisers 𒁏manage the race, the UCI manage the sport."
Race officia෴ls stripped Caruso of his prize money, with second-place-getter Stefen Wesemann (Telekom) the ben🐠eficiary.
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Turtur has come under fire for not backing away from his support of Lance Armstrong who became the unofficial face of the Tour Down Under when the American began his return to the sport in Adelaide in 2009. In the wake of Tyler Hamilton's interview with the American 60 Minutes program in 2011 in which he confessed to doping and also claimed that Armstrong had encouraged teammates to use EPO, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Turtur was on the front foot.
"If you're saying to me: 'are you sorry that we had Lance Armstrong at the race?' absolutely not," Turtur said to Cyclingnews.
"Why would we be?
"The allegations that are against him [Armstrong] at the moment are made by two people in particular who I believe have no credibility whatsoever... I don't believe 💖anything that Hamilton or Landis says. They can't be believed; they can't be listened to because of what they've done in the past. Until such time as there's 100 percent clear, factual ℱevidence to indicate clearly that there's an issue then I'll listen to that."
Cyclingnews contacted Turtur in the wake of the USADA Reasoned Decision documen🐼tation and he would not be drawn on the matter.
In his interview with the Sunday Mail, Turtur also said that he was "pretty cer🔴tain" that Caruso was the only rider to have produced a positive test at the Tour Down Under.
"I can't see the point in making any other public comment in regard tꦛo anything that might happen in that area other than the process taking its natural course with the UCI and the anti-doping agencies," Turtur said.
"The majority of org⛄anisers are excluded by that process."