Nairo Quintana's Arkea Samsic team under investigation over alleged doping at Tour

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Colombian interviewed by police last week
Two team doctors and physio taken into custody

The French-based Arkea-Samsic team, led by former Giro d’Italia and Vuelta a España champion Nairo Quintana at this year’s Tour de France, is under preliminary investigation for suspicion of doping practices after the team’s hotel in Meribel was searched by public health officers last Wednesday.
Prosecutor Dominique Laurens in Marseille confirmed on Monday that an inquiry had been opened and cited the “discovery of many health products, including drugs and especially a method that could be qualified as doping.” Le Parisien reported that one of the team’s two doctors and a Spanish physiotherapist were taken into custody on Monday morning, while Quintana and his brother and teammate, Dayer, were also said to have been interviewed. Continue reading...

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