Androni Giocattoli team faces suspension after second positive test

Fabio Taborre fails a test for a substance that 'stimulates the production of EPO' after the Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec team's Davide Appollonio failed a test for EPO

Androni-Sidermec on stage one of the 2015 Tour of Italy

(Image credit: Watson)

The entire Italian Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec team faces suspension from competition after a second rider from the squad failed an anti-doping test this season.

Thirty-year-old Italian rider Fabio Taborre failed a test for banned substance FG-4592, which the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) reports 'has the property of stimulating the endogenous production of EPO'. Taborre failed the test on June 16.

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