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Astana hit by another doping case
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ASTANA was rocked by another doping case yesterday when the International Cycling Union said Kazakh Victor Okishev had tested positive.
“The Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) announces that it has notified UCI Continental Team Astana Kazakh rider Victor Okishev of an Adverse Analytical Finding of Anabolic Androgenic Steroids in a sample collected at the Asian Cycling Championships on 29 May 2014,” the UCI said in a statement. “The rider has the right to request and attend the analysis of the B sample.”
Okishev rides for Astana Continental (third division), which is technically a different entity to the Astana World Tour (elite) team.
Sources said, however, that Okishev’s case would be taken into consideration, although not officially, by the License Commission, which has been reviewing Astana’s case in the wake of a string of recent doping affairs. Last month, the UCI asked the License Commission to review Astana’s status after the Kazakh outfit was hit by a third positive doping test this year.
Kazakh brothers Maxim and Valentin Iglinskiy, as well as trainee Iliya Davidenok, also of Kazakhstan, failed dope tests this season.
Astana officials were heard by the License Commission on November 6, a cycling source said, and the UCI has yet to receive their recommendations.
Earlier, the UCI said Astana, which is managed by ex-doper Alexandre Vinokourov and has Italian Tour de France champion Vincenzo Nibali in its ranks, could have “conditions attached to its license”.
Astana is a member of the Mouvement Pour un Cyclisme Credible (Movement for Credible Cycling), which enforces stricter anti-doping rules than the World Anti-Doping Agency.
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