Colombia's Robinson Lopez, who recently tested positive for CERA, has stated that he was unaware that he took the banned substance. The under-23 national champion said he took the drug thinking that it was a legal vitamin based on bad advice from a friend.
"It was all part of a deception that was done to me," Lopez told Ciclo21. "A person advised me, but he did it very badly, and apparently gave me some vitamins, which I consumed without knowing what I was getting into.
"I did not know that these supposed vitamins were a forbidden substance. It was not my intention to consume something forbidden."
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Colombian newspapers reported on Monday that the 20-year-old returned a positive test for the substance, also known as 'third generation' EPO, at the Vuelta a Colombia in August.
He was racing for the team Boyacá es Para Vivirla. He finished 14th overall and was best young rider at the stage race. Earlier in the season, he had won the under-23 road race at the Colombian nationals and was eighth in the time trial the previous day.
Lopez told Ciclo21 that he consumed the drug one month before the Vuelta a Colombia.
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