Vini Zabú's Valerio Bianco discusses De Bonis' EPO Positive Test

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🗓️ 3 April 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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One of Vini Zabù's riders, Matteo De Bonis, tested positive for EPO this week, prompting a police investigation into the team as well as a pending UCI investigation. Valerio Bianco, press officer at Vini Zabù, joins the podcast to discuss what has been going on during the last week.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Lantern Rouge Cycling Podcast.
0:02.8	I'm back in the Lantern Room for Internet reasons.
0:05.3	Today we have an interview with the press officer
0:07.8	of Vinnie Zabu, pro team,
0:10.5	Valerio Bianco, giving up his time on his weekend
0:14.1	to talk to us.
0:15.0	You may have seen in the news that Mateo Devonis,
0:19.0	a rider on Vinnie Zabu,
0:21.8	who tested positive for EPO in an out of competition test.
0:25.2	He hasn't competed in a race.
0:26.8	So far this year in 2021,
0:28.6	he did compete in races for Vinnie last year.
0:32.4	It's an AAF at the Sano Medical Finding,
0:35.6	and I'm not sure there will be a B sample test
0:41.2	because he might have confessed to it
0:43.3	that we'll hear from Valerio directly about that.
0:46.8	Vinnie Zabu have self-suspended.
0:49.2	For now, they're currently at risk of a 14 to 15 to 45 day
0:54.6	suspension because they have a second doping
0:57.4	taste in the last 12 months.
1:00.0	Mateo, Spriafiko,
1:02.0	tested positive for Osterine,
	...

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