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Tour de France 2020 Ensures that they remain attentive and vigilant to the investigation
AFP
mel The Arkea team assured this Wednesday that it maintains its trust in the Colombian Nairo Quintana and in his brother Dayer, questioned in France for an alleged case of doping during the Tour de France.
It’s a statement, the Breton formation indicated that after the interrogation the two cyclists “were able to return home and are free to exercise their trade as cyclists professionals without any restrictions. “
“The Arkea team and its general manager (Emmanuel Hubert) are satisfied with this reassuring information”, indicated the formation, which reiterated its commitment to the values of “probity and sports ethics” and assured that it will continue “attentive and vigilant” to the development of research.
The Quintana were interrogated for several hours last Monday, a day after the end of the Tour de France in which Nairo finished more than an hour behind the winner, the Slovenian Tadej Pogacar.
Five of the above the gendarmerie had searched the runners’ hotel room in the alpine town of Meribel, heor that motivated the opening of a preliminary judicial investigation to determine if some of the products found there were dopants.
The police also took statements for two days until last night, under arrest conditions, to a personal physiotherapist and a doctor from Quintana. The Arkea team has insisted from the first moment that both do not belong to its technical corps.
For its part, Nairo Quintana issued a statement on Tuesday in which he denied that the police had found dopate products in the search made in his room.
“They seized perfectly legal vitamin supplements, although perhaps unfamiliar to the French authorities. This is the main reason why it takes time for everything that happened to be fully clarified,” said the Boyac runner.
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