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• Barloworld Positive, But Slam Drugs Cheat Duenas
  July 19th, 2008
  

  by Justin Davis
  DIGNES-LES-BAINS, France, July 19, 2008 (AFP) - Kenyan-born Briton Chris Froome hit out at Barloworld teammate Moises Duenas here on Saturday after the Spaniard’s positive doping control at the Tour de France.
  Duenas’s positive test for the banned blood booster EPO (erythrpoietin) on stage four [...]

• Barloworld Can Stay For Now, Says Tour Official Patrice Clerc
  July 17th, 2008
  

  by Justin Davis
  NARBONNE, France, July 17, 2008 (AFP) - Top Tour de France official Patrice Clerc said Barloworld would remain in the race unless new evidence from a police investigation pointed to organized doping within the team.
  Barloworld, along with two other teams, have come under the [...]

• Stash of Banned Doping Products Found Among Duenas’ Belongings
  July 17th, 2008
  

  TOULOUSE, France, July 17, 2008 (AFP) - A stash of medical material and a banned substance were among items seized by police from the room of Spanish cyclist Moises Duenas who has been kicked out of the Tour de France after failing a drug test, a French court heard on Thursday.
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• Baden Cooke Abadons And Leaves Barloworld Down To Four Riders
  July 17th, 2008
  

  PUIVERT, France, July 17, 2008 (AFP) - Australian Baden Cooke became the fifth rider from the Barloworld team to pull out of the Tour de France here Thursday.
  Cooke got off his bike after just 25km of the race’s 12th stage, according to official race radio. He had crashed earlier [...]

• Mauricio Soler of Barloworld To Start 2nd Stage With Injured Wrist
  July 6th, 2008
  

  AURAY, France, July 6, 2008 (AFP) - Colombia’s Tour de France ‘King of the Mountains’ Mauricio Soler will start the second stage here on Sunday despite injuring his wrist in a crash on the first stage.
  Soler, who rides for the British-registered Barloworld team, picked up a suspected fractured scaphoid [...]

• Colombian Climber Soler From Team Barloworld Suffers Possible Wrist Fracture
  July 5th, 2008
  

  PLUMELEC, France, July 5, 2008 (AFP) - Colombia’s Tour de France ‘King of the Mountains’ Mauricio Soler is a doubt for the rest of the race after a crash on the first stage here Saturday.
  Soler, who rides for the British-registered Barloworld team, picked up a suspected fractured scaphoid [...]

• If Soler Is Out, A More Civilized (Boring) Tour Of Mountains?
  July 5th, 2008
  

  Last year, the mountain stages at the Tour de France were all about three guys: Rasmussen, Contador, and Soler. Everybody else, including riders and audience alike, were left to hold on for dear life as these three attacked, trumped, and attacked again. The fallout of their energetic bout of one-upsmanship was that [...]

• Robbie Hunter Given Exception To Go And See His New Baby And Wife
  July 3rd, 2008
  

  New dad Hunter given special Tour treatment
  BREST, France, July 3, 2008 (AFP) - South African cyclist Robert Hunter, who rides for Barloworld, has been given special permission by Tour de France doping controllers to leave the race and go and see his wife and new baby.
  Hunter, who won his [...]