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BMC`s Frei tests positive for EPO - team

BMC Racing, the team that world champion Cadel Evans rides for, have suspended Thomas Frei after the Swiss rider tested positive for the banned blood-booster erythropoietin (EPO), the American outfit said on Thursday.

Paris: BMC Racing, the team that world champion Cadel Evans rides for, have suspended Thomas Frei after the Swiss rider tested positive for the banned blood-booster erythropoietin (EPO), the American outfit said on Thursday.
"It has come to our attention that Thomas Frei has been informed that he was tested A-positive regarding the use of EPO," BMC President Jim Ochowicz said in a team statement."As a consequence, the BMC Racing Team and its members have made the decision to withhold Thomas Frei from competition, in accordance with the BMC Racing Team`s own policy." Earlier this month, BMC provisionally suspended Italians Alessandro Ballan and Mauro Santambrogio after the two were involved in a doping probe in their home country.Both riders were formerly with the Lampre team, which has been targeted by the investigation. Bureau Report