UCI statement On Luca Paolini

The Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) announces that it has notified Italian rider Luca Paolini of anAdverse Analytical Finding of Cocaine (Benzoylecgonine metabolite) in a sample collected in the scope ofan in-competition control on 7 July 2015 during the Tour de France.

The rider has the right to request and attend the analysis of the B sample.

In accordance with UCI Anti-doping Rules, the rider has been provisionally suspended until the adjudicationof the affair.

At this stage of the procedure, the UCI will not comment any further.

For more information. please contact:

Louis Chenaille

UCI Press Officer

+41 79 198 7047

louis.chenaille@uci.ch

John Zerafa

VERO Communications

+44 7813 814 816

jzerafa@verocom.co.uk

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