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EFE · Road Competition · 09/21/2020
The French gendarmerie searched the room of one of the hotels owned by Colombian Nairo Quintana and two of his other compatriots at the Arka-Samic last week during the Tour de France, as part of an open investigation without ties to the country’s anti-doping authorities.
According to the French press, the search took place last Wednesday at the hotel in Megeve, in the Alps, early in the morning.
The agents of the brigade for the fight against environmental crimes and public health arrived with a judicial order and searched Quintana’s room, that of his brother Dayer and that of Winner Anacona, in addition to those of the masseurs and some vehicles, the weekly newspaper indicates. Sunday newspaper.
The investigation has no connection with the French Agency for the Fight against Doping (AFLD), responsible for the controls during the Tour de Francehe adds.
Quintana, who came to the Tour with options to get on the podium for the fourth time in his career, was thrown out of that fight after suffering three falls.
The Boyac cyclist finished in 17th place more than an hour behind the winner, the Slovenian Tadej Pogacar.
It is not the first time that the environmental brigade of the gendarmerie investigates participants in the Tour de France, although its investigations have never determined the commission of crimes.
In 2017 they opened an investigation to determine if there were motors in the bikes of some cyclists, but they closed it earlier this year due to lack of evidence.
Last year they also turned their attention to the Deceuninck team, but the investigation was also shelved.
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