A video showed the Deceuninck team sporting director removing an object from the runner’s pocket, but authorities have determined that no anti-doping violation was committed.
No anti-doping offenses were committed on the occasion of the Belgian’s fall Remco Evenepoel in the Tour of LombardyThe Cycling Anti-Doping Foundation (CADF) announced on Monday.
The investigation opened after the Evenepoel accident on August 15 was closed. A video showed the Deceuninck team sporting director removing an item from the runner’s pocket to put it in his own bag.
The CADF declared that it had “listened to all the people involved, including the runner and the team representatives, and studied the available images.” “The CADF concluded that no anti-doping offense was committed and considers the case closed unless new elements are provided,” the statement added.
The hypothesis of atdata transmission in race, a regulated field, was evoked to explain the gesture of the sporting director of the Belgian team, the Italian Davide Bramati. The Deceuninck formation responded that the object in question was “a small bottle containing nutritional products.” “Data such as live location are transmitted by the Velon device installed on the bicycles,” the Belgian team specified.
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