Giro d’Italia director Mauro Vegni has called on the UCI to take measures to ensure that Chris Froome (Team Sky) can only start the Italian Grand Tour if there is a guarantee that he will not later be suspended and stripped of his results due to his adverse analytical finding for salbutamol at last year’s Vuelta a España.
In particular, Vegni and RCS Sport are eager to avoid a repeat of the situation that arose in 2011, when Alberto Contador carried the maglia rosa to Milan only to be stripped of the title the following year after he was given a retroactive two-year ban for his positive test for Clebuterol at the 2010 Tour de France.
"On the Froome case, we’re awaiting the next steps from the UCI," Vegni told the ANSA news agency on Wednesday.
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"We as Giro d’Italia organisers don’t want to stick our beaks in, but we want a certificate from the UCI that allows the rider to be at the start of the next Giro d’Italia. They will have to tell us if the rider is going to be suspended, or if he can compete. We certainly can’t accept a repeat of the Contador case or a trial after the fact."
During the final week of the 2017 Vuelta, Froome returned an anti-doping sample that contained twice the permissible level of salbutamol, but as salbutamol is classed as a specified substance, he is free to race until the case is resolved.
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