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27/05/2010
CASO LANDIS - L’Uci chiede alle federazioni di indagare
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Giovedì 27 maggio 2010 - La prima reazione era stata di fastidio ("ci rammarichiamo del fatto che il signor Landis abbia pubblicamente accusato delle persone senza lasciare, alle autorità statunitensi, tempo sufficiente per indagare"), poi la replica si è fatta anche più dura ("mai cambiato o nascosto un risultato positivo di un test profondamente, siamo choccati per la gravità delle sue affermazioni), adesso l'Uci passa ai fatti. In una nota pubblicata sul proprio sito, la Federciclo internazionale annuncia di aver richiesto alle rispettive Federazioni di indagare sulle accuse mosse da Floyd Landis contro l'australiano Matthew Whit (Cycling Australia), il belga Johan Bruyneel (Royal Belgian Cycling League), il canadese Michael Barry (Canadian Cycling Association) e il francese John Lelangue (French Cycling Federation).
Contattata anche l'Usada, l'agenzia antidoping statunitense, perché verifichi le accuse contro Lance Armstrong, George Hincapie, Levi Leipheimer, Jim Ochowicz e David Zabriskie.
La richiesta di indagini è volta "a stabilire, in modo oggettivo, se ci siano state o meno potenziali violazioni delle regole antidoping. Questo, comunque, non implica che l'Uci ritenga che le accuse fatte da Landis abbiano un qualsiasi fondamento". Tra le affermazioni di Landis il fatto che Bruyneel e Armstrong abbiano occultato un test positivo del sette volte vincitore del Tour de France nel 2001.
Di seguito la nota diffusa dall’Uci.
Allegations by Floyd Landis: the UCI requests inquiries
The International Cycling Union (UCI) has confirmed that it yesterday morning requested the relevant National Federations to carry out inquiries into the accusations made by Mr Floyd Landis against their licence-holders, namely Cycling Australia (Matthew White), Royal Belgian Cycling League (Johan Bruyneel), Canadian Cycling Association (Michael Barry) and the French Cycling Federation (John Lelangue).
An inquiry has also already been opened by the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) concerning all the other individuals accused by Mr Landis as these persons have US nationality (Lance Armstrong, George Hincapie, Levi Leipheimer, Jim Ochowicz and David Zabriskie).
The UCI's request is aimed at establishing, in an objective manner, whether or not events potentially constituting a breach of the Anti-Doping Rules occurred. This does not in any way imply that the UCI considers the allegations made by Mr Landis to have any basis.
L’Uci ha inoltre sottolineato che nessuno dei test ha rivelato la presenza di Epo nei campioni prelevati dai corridori al Giro di Svizzera 2001. L'Uci ha tutta la documentazione per dimostrarlo.
Due to the controversy following the statements made by Floyd Landis, the International Cycling Union wishes to stress that none of the tests revealed the presence of EPO in the samples taken from riders at the 2001 Tour of Switzerland. The UCI has all the documentation to prove this fact.
Between 2001 and 2003, only the Paris, Lausanne, Cologne, Barcelona and Madrid laboratories, commissioned by the UCI, detected the presence of EPO in the samples that had been entrusted to them for analysis. During this period, the first laboratory carried out three positive analyses for EPO, the second 18 and the three last laboratories one each. None of the samples concerned had been taken at the 2001 Tour of Switzerland.
The International Olympic Committee received a copy of all the reports for the positive analyses mentioned above. Furthermore, in 2001, all the analysis reports carried out at the Tour of Switzerland were sent to Swiss Olympic.
Since 1st January 2004, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) receives a copy of any analysis reports which show an abnormal result. WADA has not reported any abnormal analyses from any of its accredited laboratories that have not been duly dealt with by the UCI.
The UCI wishes to reassert the total transparency of its anti-doping testing and categorically rejects any suspicion in relation to the concealment of results from parties involved in this field.
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