Skipped Austrian doping tests lead to different handlings

The two U23 Austrian riders who skipped a doping control last week are being treated differently - one is considered to have purposely missed the test and will therefore be investigated, the other will be treated only as a disciplinary case, according to Rudolf Massak, general secretary of the Austrian cycling federation, ÖRV.

Massak explained that the doping controllers appeared Thursday evening while the team was eating dinner. The team was informed of the upcoming controls. Subsequently, Ebner and Markus Eibegger disappeared, "without saying that they were going or giving an explanation," said Massak. The two were subsequently removed from the World's team.

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