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UCI announce positive test for Belgian Sentjens

Cycling's world ruling body announced Wednesday that Roy Sentjens, of the Milram team, has been provisionally suspended following a positive test for the banned blood booster EPO.

Cycling's world ruling body announced Wednesday that Roy Sentjens, of the Milram team, has been provisionally suspended following a positive test for the banned blood booster EPO.

"The decision to provisionally suspend Mr Sentjens was made in response to a report from the WADA-accredited laboratory in Cologne indicating an Adverse Analytical Finding of Recombinant EPO in a urine sample collected from him at an out-of-competition test on 16 August 2010," said the statement from the UCI (International Cycling Union).

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