Doping cases

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The status of Kleber Ramos SILVA has been changed in the data base to provisionally suspended but still needs a Rider Comment:
Kleber Ramos SILVA tested positive for CERA in an out-of-competition control on 31 July 2016. He was provisionally suspended and is awaiting a verdict.

Miguel Angel PEREZ LAPARRA is in the data base as provisionally suspended and awaiting a verdict, following a positive test on 3 April 2010…
Have not found any information about a verdict being pronounced, only that he had tested already positive in 2001 as well.
Suggest to change his status to Retired and his Rider Comment to:
Miguel Angel PEREZ tested positive for anabolic steroids on 3 April 2010 after an MTB race in Belize. ~~He was provisionally suspended and is awaiting his verdict.~~

The status of Raphael Mesquita MENDES should be Elite-2 (Prov. suspended), as mentioned in his Rider Comment.

Eduard VORGANOV, after being cleared by the Russian Federation in May 2016 (little slip in his Rider Comment), has also been cleared officially by the UCI on 4 August 2016.

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The suspensions by the Russian Federation of Andrey LUKONIN and Ivan LUTSENKO ended on 3 August 2016.
Ivan LUTSENKO participates at the moment in the Tour of Ankara with the national selection of Moldova under a Moldovian license.

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A suspension which does not appear (yet?) in the UCI table: Alanzo GREAVES (Elite-2 > Suspended)
Rider Comment: Alanzo GREAVES tested positive for Testosterone on 1 November 2015 after the Tour of Guyana. He was suspended by the Caribbean Regional Anti-Doping Organisation for 1 year until 1 November 2016.

A bit of background.
On 1 November 2015 the Caribbean RADO named ten riders for a doping test after the five day stage race Tour of Guyana.
Nine gave samples, one refused (link 1).
On 7 January 2016 the RADO announced that there had been three Adverse Analytical Findings.
Alanzo GREAVES, one of them, positive for testosterone, admitted, waived a re-test of his B sample, and was suspended for one year (link 2).
According to the media the other two riders are the Jamaican Marlon RODMAN and Darren MATTHEWS from Barbados (link 3).
No verdicts have been pronounced however, neither by their national federations nor by RADO.
Carlos OSPINA, the rider who refused to give a sample, was the day after the race disqualified as winner of the Tour of Guyana (link 4), but no official suspension has been pronounced thus far for him either. He was already suspended in 2008 for 2 years for a doping violation.

Maybe one day we will get the full story.

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Update of 29.08.2016 of the UCI Sanctions list

OYARZUN GUIÑEZ Carlos Ivan
Second sentence Rider Comment: He was suspended by the UCI for 4 years, until 17 July 2019.

Subject: Re: Doping cases Wed Aug 31, 2016 8:13 pm

http://www.ffc.fr/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Commission-Nationale-de-Discipline-du-20-juin-2016.pdf?c14d3e
Released in june 2016 this sanction sheet concerns 2 riders included in CQR database
Jhonathan CAMARGO MENDOZA (id#7672) suspended til 18/05/2018 for use of EPO-CERA
Adam PIERZGA (id#7308) suspended til 17/05/2018 for use of the same substance on a Guadeloupean national race (Grand Prix de la Communauté d’Agglomération de Nord Basse-Terre)

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Hans wrote:

A bit of extra work to fill these long dark winter evenings… Very Happy

This link gives, in alphabetical order, a table of all suspensions pronounced by the UCI in the years 2009-2012.
The majority of these suspensions are covered in the CQ Doping Documents and are incorporated in the Results and Rider databases, but several cases are missing. It concerns suspensions that in the meantime have ended but which still need a Rider Comment, a line in the Doping Documents and in most cases DSQ’s.

Spoiler:

It seems like many of these don't have a rider comment added into the database yet. Grau and Nicacio definitely appear to have served bans judging by the lack of results during the years mentioned.

LeonCQ wrote:: Only the ones marked with 'check' we have fully added in site & database. There's much less time for us than things that have to be done, so that's why we mainly focus on the present. But I agree that adding the ready-made Rider Comments to the site would have been the least we could have done...

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LeonCQ wrote:: But I agree that adding the ready-made Rider Comments to the site would have been the least we could have done...

It is never too late to do so... Smile

And actually, apart from GRAU, there are not so many DSQ's to enter.

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Update of 09.09.2016 of the UCI Sanctions list:
Timur GUMEROV (Prov. suspended > Suspended)
Second sentence Rider Comment: He was suspended by the UCI for 3 years and 9 months, until 1 December 2019.
(Disqualification only started 2 March 2016 so he keeps his result in the Asian Championships where he tested positive… Question

)

Quote :: that must be a mistake or an inconsistency. We'll delete him from the result

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As mentioned in the media, seven riders from Uruguay have been suspended by their national federation for positive doping controls. The local press talked about this story already in July (link)
All seven tested positive in out of competition controls in March 2016 prior to the Vuelta al Uruguay.
Details of the sanctions can be found here
Only one of them is in the CQ database: MEMOLI MENDEZ Victor Hugo (id=25516)
Rider Comment: Victor MEMOLI tested positive for EPO in an out-of-competition control in March 2016. He was suspended by the Uruguayan Federation for 4 years, until 6 June 2020.

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Update of the Provisional Suspensions table of the UCI of 16.09.2016
Samuele CONTI (Prov. Suspended)
Rider Comment: Samuele CONTI tested positive for GHRP-2 in an out-of-competition control on 13 August 2016. He was provisionally suspended and is awaiting a verdict.

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Rafael INFANTINO and Ivan PARRA are in the database shown as Suspended although their Rider Comments mention that they are awaiting a verdict.
Both are effectively suspended by the Colombian federation for 4 years (link), but they do not yet appear in the UCI sanctions list and the official end date of their suspensions has not been published.
Assume that the UCI will also still disqualify Infantino from his results in the Vuelta a Colombia 2015.

To be consistent, I suggest to change for the moment their Rider Comments to:

Rafael INFANTINO tested positive for GHRP-2 and Metabolite in an out of competition control in July 2015. He was suspended by the Colombian federation for 4 years.

Ivan PARRA tested positive for GHRP-2 and Metabolite in September 2015 during the Clasico RCN. He was suspended by the Colombian federation for 4 years.

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The UCI has published an update of the sanctions table on 07.10.2016

It finally includes Valentin and Maxim IGLINSKIY.
Both got suspensions of only two years, which have already ended in September 2016.

Rui CARVALHO got 4 years until 17.07.2019 and Alberto GALLEGOS RUIZ 3 years and 9 months until 25.10.2019.

Quote :: done

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Hans wrote:: Rafael INFANTINO and Ivan PARRA are in the database shown as Suspended although their Rider Comments mention that they are awaiting a verdict.
Both are effectively suspended by the Colombian federation for 4 years
(...)
Assume that the UCI will also still disqualify Infantino from his results in the Vuelta a Colombia 2015.
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I'm in doubt about the approach when one of the riders of a winning team is positive in a TTT? Infantino will be DQ in stage 1 of the Vuelta Colombia, but will the team still be winning?

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LeonCQ wrote:: I'm in doubt about the approach when one of the riders of a winning team is positive in a TTT? Infantino will be DQ in stage 1 of the Vuelta Colombia, but will the team still be winning?

I think that article 2.6.238 covers this situation, although it talks about a violation during the race, not an offense prior to the race:
-The team is relegated to the last place of the stage, but keeps the actual time.
-The team gets a 10 minutes penalty in the Teams GC.

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Kristjan FAJT got a suspension for 3 years and 9 months.
http://www.uci.ch/mm/Document/News/CleanSport/17/32/52/20161017SanctionADRVENG2.0_English.pdf

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DijkCQ wrote:: Kristjan FAJT got a suspension for 3 years and 9 months.
http://www.uci.ch/mm/Document/News/CleanSport/17/32/52/20161017SanctionADRVENG2.0_English.pdf

According to this list, it is 3 years and 10 months... (10-3-16 - 10-2-20)

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LeonCQ wrote:: According to this list, it is 3 years and 10 months... (10-3-16 - 10-2-20)

......and that makes 3 years and 11 months....

In fact the table says 10.03.2016 until 10.01.2020. By the way, in his Rider Comment you made it 4 January 2020.
Must have been late Laughing

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Hans wrote:

LeonCQ wrote:: According to this list, it is 3 years and 10 months... (10-3-16 - 10-2-20)

......and that makes 3 years and 11 months....

In fact the table says 10.03.2016 until 10.01.2020. By the way, in his Rider Comment you made it 4 January 2020.
Must have been late Laughing

Yes it was...

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Two new Provisional Suspensions:

ALVAREZ PANIAGUA Oscar Mauricio
Rider Comment: Oscar ALVAREZ tested positive for EPO in the Vuelta a Colombia on 17 June 2016. He was provisionally suspended by the UCI and is awaiting a verdict.

HAGHI Alireza
Rider Comment: Alireza HAGHI tested positive for Testosterone in the Tour of Iran Azarbaijan on 14 May 2016. He was provisionally suspended by the UCI and is awaiting a verdict.

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USADA recently suspended several cyclists, one of which is in the CQ database: ULLOA RODRIGUEZ Jeyson Camilo (#9090)
Rider Comment: Camilo ULLOA tested positive for Methylphenidate and Anabolic agents/metabolites in the Tour of America’s Dairyland on 25 June 2016. He was suspended by the US Federation for 4 years, until 7 August 2020.
Link: http://www.usada.org/camilo-ulloa-accepts-doping-sanction/

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Update of 28.10.2016 of the UCI Sanctions list

Samuele CONTI (Prov. Suspended > Suspended)
Second sentence Rider Comment: He was suspended by the UCI for 3 years and 7 months, until 12 March 2020.
(to be deleted from Arnhem - Veenendaal and GP Jef Scherens 2016)

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The website of the UK Anti-Doping organisation (UKAD) gives a list of all current sanctions:
http://www.ukad.org.uk/anti-doping-rule-violations/current-violations/
When clicking on a name all details of the violation are shown, even with a link to the full text of the decision.
At the moment 59 athletes are sanctioned, (only) 4 of which are cyclists.
One of them is in the CQ database: Andrew HASTINGS (id 22918)
Rider Comment: Andrew HASTINGS tested positive for Metenolone and Stanozolol at the British Team Time Trial National Championships on 30 May 2015. He was suspended by the UKAD for 4 years, until 29 May 2019.
http://www.ukad.org.uk/news/article/cyclist-andrew-hastings-banned-for-four-years/

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The status of RINCON DIAZ Ramiro and of GASPAR Joao Marcelo Pereira has been changed in the database to Prov. Suspended, but you may still add the following rider comments:
Ramiro RINCON (Joao GASPAR) tested positive for CERA in the Volta a Portugal on 27 July 2016. He was provisionally suspended by the UCI and is awaiting a verdict.

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And a familiar name in the updated UCI table of Provisional Suspensions: KAZEMI SARAI Ahad of Tabriz Shardari.
He was already suspended for two years in 2010, so this time it will be for life I presume.
Add to his Rider Comment: Ahad KAZEMI tested again positive, this time for Testosterone, in the Tour of Iran Azarbaijan on 13 May 2016. He was provisionally suspended by the UCI and is awaiting a verdict.

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The UCI added on 02.12.2016 two Russian and two Polish riders to the ADRV table for positive controls for Meldonium.
No suspensions but after all some disqualifications.
The Russians are Sergey SHILOV (DQ in the Vuelta a La Rioja) and Yury TROFIMOV (DQ in Paris - Nice and the Volta a Catalunya).
The two Polish riders, Marcin POLAK and Michal LADOSZ, are disqualified from the Para-Cycling track world championships.
Michal LADOSZ is in the CQ database, but his last result goes back to 2009.

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