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Iranian cycling team blocked from racing over 2 doping cases
Published
Feb. 28, 2017 5:49 p.m. ET
AP
AIGLE, Switzerland (AP) Iranian team Pishgaman Cycling has been suspended from racing for 30 days after two riders tested positive for doping.
The International Cycling Union says the third-tier team ''is suspended from participating in any international event.''
The ban runs from March 6 to April 6.
The governing body did not specify which two riders each failed tests within a one-year period.
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The UCI's own list of sanctions notes that Naser Rezavi of Iran is serving a four-year ban for testing positive for an anabolic steroid in a December 2015 race in Malaysia.
The UCI also provisionally suspended Rahim Emami of Iran, who tested positive for an anabolic steroid last October.
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