Bahrain Victorious still in the dark over ongoing anti-doping investigation

Spokesperson for team says that state-backed team ‘yet to receive any information regarding the investigation’

Bahrain Victorious
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The Bahrain Victorious cycling team are still in the dark regarding the ongoing anti-doping investigation that has surrounded them since 2021. 

On Friday afternoon, Cycling Weekly revealed that Europol are no longer involved in proceedings against the team and that the case was now “in the hands of the judiciary” in France. 

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Tom Thewlis
News and Features Writer

After previously working in higher education, Tom joined Cycling Weekly in 2022 and hasn't looked back. He's been covering professional cycling ever since; reporting on the ground from some of the sport's biggest races and events, including the Tour de France, Paris-Roubaix and the World Championships. His earliest memory of a bike race is watching the Tour on holiday in the early 2000's in the south of France - he even made it on to the podium in Pau afterwards. His favourite place that cycling has taken him is Montréal in Canada.