Bad Bad Italians…
On Thursday, March 24, Belgian police searched the hotel of the Acqua & Sapone team in Erpe-Mere, where the Italian team was staying prior to this weekend’s races, E3 Prijs Vlaanderen and Brabantse Pijl. They allegedly found doping substances in the rooms of three of the team’s members, according to Belgian newspaper Gazet van Antwerpen.
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news.php?id=news/2005/mar05/mar26news
Acqua & Sapone suspends Kobzarenko
The Italian Professional Continental team has suspended one of its riders, Valery Kobzarenko. In the ongoing investigation of medical products that were found when Belgian police searched the team’s hotel in Erpe-Mere last Thursday, the team’s manager Palmiro Masciarelli declared that a questionable syringe was found near the Ukranian rider.
The analysis of the confiscated products has not been completed yet, although one of the drugs is reported to be performance enhancing. Belgian authorities also took urine samples of the riders whose rooms were searched. It may take several weeks before the result of the testing will be made public.
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news.php?id=news/2005/mar05/mar28news
I wonder who the other two are?