{"id":60557,"date":"2025-08-11T03:35:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T03:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/60557\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T03:35:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T03:35:07","slug":"french-cyclist-tests-positive-for-banned-substance-for-a-second-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/60557\/","title":{"rendered":"French cyclist tests positive for banned substance for a second time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>French cyclist Lionel Miny has been provisionally suspended<br \/>\nafter testing positive for a banned substance for the second time in his<br \/>\ncareer. The 33-year-old, who recently competed in the Tour Cycliste<br \/>\nInternational de la Guadeloupe and finished fifth on stage 4, returned the<br \/>\npositive test following the amateur Tour Cycliste de Marie-Galante in June on the<br \/>\nisland of Guadeloupe.<\/p>\n<p>Local media, via DirectVelo, reported that the president of<br \/>\nthe Guadeloupe Cycling Committee confirmed the case as a doping matter. The<br \/>\nFrench Anti-Doping Agency (AFLD) has since moved to suspend Miny pending the<br \/>\nfull disciplinary process. He did not start stage 7 of the Tour de Guadeloupe.<\/p>\n<p>While the AFLD has not publicly disclosed the exact<br \/>\nsubstance involved in the June test, the case is particularly damaging for Miny<br \/>\ngiven his past. In 2018, traces of EPO were detected in his system, resulting<br \/>\nin a four-year suspension from competition. That ban sidelined him until 2022,<br \/>\nand his return to racing had been relatively low-profile until his recent<br \/>\nperformances in Guadeloupe.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nThis is the second high-profile doping story to emerge in<br \/>\ncycling this week. <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/aurela-nerlo\" title=\"Aurela Nerlo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aurela Nerlo<\/a>, runner-up at this year\u2019s Omloop Het<br \/>\nNieuwsblad, tested positive for an anabolic steroid and has been removed from<br \/>\ncompetition pending investigation. Miny\u2019s case will now move through the AFLD\u2019s<br \/>\nadjudication process, but the repeat nature of the offence is likely to bring a<br \/>\nlengthy ban, potentially ending his career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"French cyclist Lionel Miny has been provisionally suspended after testing positive for a banned substance for the second&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60558,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82],"class_list":["post-60557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}