{"id":234369,"date":"2025-10-30T17:21:03","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T17:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/234369\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T17:21:03","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T17:21:03","slug":"spanish-rider-leaves-red-bull-bora-hansgrohe-after-being-provisionally-suspended-over-unexplained-abnormalities-in-biological-passport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/234369\/","title":{"rendered":"Spanish rider leaves Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe after being provisionally suspended over ‘unexplained abnormalities’ in biological passport"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Spanish champion Oier Lazkano has been suspended by the UCI over “unexplained abnormalities” in his biological passport<\/a>, and will leave Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe<\/a> as a result.<\/p>\n

The 25-year-old, who joined the German team from Movistar at the beginning of 2025, did not race again after Paris-Roubaix in mid-April this season. The abnormalities were found during his time at his previous team, according to the UCI.<\/p>\n

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In a press release on Thursday afternoon, a spokesperson for cycling’s governing body said: “Spanish rider Oier Lazkano Lopez has been provisionally suspended in accordance with the UCI Anti-Doping Rules, due to unexplained abnormalities in his Athlete Biological Passport in 2022, 2023 and 2024.”<\/p>\n

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Following this, a Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe<\/a> spokesperson announced that Lazkano would leave the squad.<\/p>\n

They said: “We confirm that Oier Lazkano will no longer be part of our team. This follows the decision of the UCI to provisionally suspend him. The matter concerns the seasons 2022-2024 \u2013 a time before he joined our team.”<\/p>\n

The biological passport is a record of each rider’s anti-doping tests, which are then monitored for discrepancies.<\/p>\n

Lazkano’s lengthy absence from racing had caused speculation over the Basque rider’s situation; he was signed by Red Bull as a key man for the Classics, but in a disappointing campaign, his best result was 108th at Scheldeprijs. He failed to finish the Tour of Flanders<\/a>, the E3 Saxo Classic, and Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne.<\/p>\n

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In the previous two seasons, Lazkano had marked himself out as one to watch in one-day races and long breakaways. He won the Cl\u00e1sica Ja\u00e9n Paraiso Interior in 2024, finished second at Dwars door Vlaanderen in 2023<\/a> having been in the breakaway for 166km, and then went on to finish third at Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne in 2024. He also won the Spanish National Championships road race in 2023.<\/p>\n

At Grand Tours, of which he has raced five, the man from Vitoria-Gasteiz had twice finished fifth on stages, including 2024 stage of the Tour de France<\/a> won by Victor Campenaerts<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Lazkano has not posted publicly on social media since April. Then, he wrote on Instagram: “It hasn’t been the classic season we wanted and planned, but I’m taking quite a few notes on the list. Thank you all for the support these months. Now, a little rest and back to the heights to prepare for the summer season.”<\/p>\n

The UCI defines the biological passport as “an individual electronic record for each rider, in which the results of all doping tests collected as part of the ABP programme over a given period are collated.”<\/p>\n

The UCI continues: “The International Testing Agency (ITA), the independent entity to which the UCI delegated its anti-doping programme while retaining responsibility for the management of results and the prosecution of anti-doping rule violations, manages the ABP programme in collaboration with the Athlete Passport Management Unit (APMU) of Lausanne, Switzerland (the APMU of Lausanne is associated with the World Anti-Doping Agency accredited Laboratory of Lausanne).<\/p>\n

“Athlete Biological cases are prosecuted based on the opinion of an independent Expert Panel of the APMU.”<\/p>\n

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