MONTREAL – A second rider from the Garneau-Club Chaussures cycling team is facing a ban for an anti-doping violaton.
Peruvian rider Miguel Agreda issued a statement on the Veloptimum website in which he admitted to a doping violation and will accept a suspension by the Canadian Cycling Association.
The CCA declined to comment until the Canadian Centre for Ethics and Sports announces a positive test and renders a decision.
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Agreda said in his statement that he had tested positive and will be suspended. He did not name what substance was found or when the test was taken.
He said he acted alone and that he recognized the “grief, disappointment and disgrace” he caused to his team and supporters. He apologized and urged others not to use performance-enhancing drugs.
Agreda said he would have no further comment.
Garneau rider Arnaud Papillon was banned for two years last week for a positive test from the Canadian road race championship in Burlington, Ont., in August. He tested positive for the endurance-building substance erythropoietin, or EPO.
Papillon, 23, who finished second in the under-23 national championship race and sixth in the elite race, admitted to using the substance and waived his right to appeal the finding.
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