Hard blow from the start of the year for Franck Bonnamour.
The cyclist from the Decathlon - AG2R La Mondiale team has been "provisionally suspended", the Union Cycliste Internationale announced this Monday afternoon, "in accordance with UCI anti-doping rules due to unexplained anomalies in his passport biological ".
UCI Statement on Franck Bonnamour https://t.co/UdbLMdP7v3 pic.twitter.com/gdigjZzgDy
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The Biological Passport, specifies the UCI in its press release, is an “individual electronic file for each rider, in which the results of all anti-doping controls carried out within the framework of the program during a given period are gathered”.
The reasons which prompted the UCI to issue this suspension are, for the moment, unknown.
“The UCI will not make further comments while the procedure is ongoing,” writes the institution.
He aimed to return to the Tour this year
The rider took part in the Down Under tour in January in Australia, during which Groupama-FDJ rider Rudy Molard violently fell.
“I had a great winter, very studious,” he told France Bleu Breizh Izel.
It's going pretty well.
I am well motivated after two somewhat complicated seasons.
I no longer have any pain following the broken foot that bothered me last season.
I'm starting from scratch, hoping to avoid falls, injuries and illnesses.
I hope to do a full season.
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He also aimed to return to the Tour de France, missed last season and on which he had performed in 2021: “For the moment, it is on my program, but it is only a preselection ( ….) I want to return to the Tour, I really enjoy it.
I want to go back and perform in this race.
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