The day after the end of the Tour de France, the Marseille Public Prosecutor’s Office launched a preliminary investigation into the doping suspicion. According to the French media, this is the Arkéa-Samsic team, whose biggest star is Colombian mountaineer Nairo Quintana.
Authorities have confirmed that two members from the vicinity of one rider are already in custody. According to the press, the second of the Quintan brothers, Dayer, who is also a member of the team, is especially suspected. Medical staff are also in search of investigators.
French police searched the team’s hotel rooms last Wednesday in Méribel after the royal 17th stage. In addition to the younger of the Quintana brothers, she also focused on another Colombian rider, Winner Anacon. Attorney Dominique Laurens, without giving the name of the stable or riders, confirmed to AFP that she had launched an investigation because “various nutritional supplements and drugs” had been found in the raid. One “method that can be considered doping” was also identified.
The seventh seventh year of the Tour de France ended with the victory of the Slovenian Tadeje Pogačar on Sunday. Thirty-year-old Nairo Quintana, who was twice second and once third at the “Old Lady” in the past, finished 17th overall, which was his worst finish in seventh attendance.
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