Nairo Quintana (32) challenges his disqualification from the Tour de France. The Colombian runner filed an appeal before the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in Lausanne.
Quintana (Team Arkea) tested positive for tramadol twice during the Tour de France, from which he was subsequently disqualified. The runner denies having taken this product. Tramadol is on the UCI’s banned list, but not on the World Anti-Doping Agency’s list.
Nairo Quintana, who is not provisionally suspended, had given up at the last moment to take the start of the Tour of Spain. He had indicated that he had “neither the head nor the body to the competition“.
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