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• Saunier Duval Pulls Out Of Sponsoring Professional Cycling
  July 23rd, 2008
  

  PARIS, July 23, 2008 (AFP) - Saunier Duval has pulled out of cycling blaming the drug scandal that engulfed its team at the Tour de France.
  Saunier Duval acted after its Italian rider Riccardo Ricco failed a dope test on stage four, prompting the elite team to pull out of the race [...]

• Saunier Duval Team Set To Be Excluded From The Tour of Germany
  July 22nd, 2008
  

  BERLIN, July 22, 2008 (AFP) - The Saunier Duval cycling team look set to be excluded from the Tour of Germany because of doping, race organizers revealed on Tuesday.
  The elite team withdrew from the Tour de France last week after Italian rider Riccardo Ricco failed a dope test - [...]

• Ricco Remanded After Doping Scandal
  July 18th, 2008
  

  FOIX, France, July 18, 2008 (AFP) - Italian racer Riccardo Ricco, kicked
  off the Tour de France for doping, was Friday remanded in custody for “using a
  poisonous substance,” the public prosecutor at Foix said.
  Prosecutor Antoine Leroy said Ricco had been remanded for “using a
  substance classed poisonous under the terms of the public [...]

• Ricco Swears Innocence, But Sacked Along With Piepoli
  July 18th, 2008
  

  by Justin Davis
  NIMES, France, July 18, 2008 (AFP) - Spanish cycling team Saunier Duval
  have sacked Italian star Riccardo Ricco following his positive doping control
  for EPO (erythropoietin) at the Tour de France, it was announced Friday.
  Team manager Mauro Gianetti said that both Ricco and his Italian teammate
  Leonardo Piepoli, who was [...]

• Christian Prudhomme Cast Suspicious Eye At Saunier Duval Team
  July 17th, 2008
  

  NARBONNE, France, July 17, 2008 (AFP) - Tour de France chief Christian Prudhomme left the future of Saunier Duval in the balance after declaring he doubted the integrity of the cycling team’s manager.
  The Spanish outfit volunteered to quit the race prior to the 12th stage following news that their [...]

• Tour Chief Prudhomme, Riders, and Teams Support Snaring Cheats
  July 17th, 2008
  

  by Justin Davis
  NARBONNE, France, July 17, 2008 (AFP) - Tour de France chief Christian Prudhomme has warned cyclists, their teams and sponsors who pour millions into the sport that the noose is tightening around the drugs cheats.
  The world’s biggest bike race was rocked Thursday by a [...]

• More Scandal For Tour de France As Ricco Tests Positive
  July 17th, 2008
  

  by Justin Davis
  LAVELANET, France, July 17, 2008 (AFP) - The Tour de France was rocked by a third positive doping scandal Thursday after Italian Riccardo Ricco tested positive for banned substances.
  Ricco, who won two climbing stages last week, was taken into custody by French police amid [...]

• Riccardo Ricco Fails Drug Test At The Tour de France
  July 17th, 2008
  

  LAVELANET, France, July 17, 2008 (AFP) - Italian rider Ricardo Ricco of Saunier Duval has tested positive for blood booster erythropoietin (EPO), the French national anti-doping agency (AFLD) confirmed on Thursday.
  The 24-year-old Ricco, winner of two mountain stages, provided a urine sample which contained the banned subtance CERA (Continuous [...]

• Riccardo Ricco of Saunier Duval Wins Tour de France Stage 6
  July 10th, 2008
  

  Ricco wins Tour’s sixth stage
  SUPER-BESSE, France, July 10, 2008 (AFP) - Italian Riccardo Ricco of Saunier Duval won the Tour de France sixth stage, a 195.5km race from Aigurande to here in the Massif Central, here Thursday, with Kim Kirchner of Luxembourg, riding for the Colombia team, taking the race leader’s yellow [...]

• Giro Runner Up Riccardo Ricco of Saunier Duval Gears Up For The Tour de France (with Roster)
  June 24th, 2008
  

  PARIS, June 24, 2008 (AFP) - Italian Riccardo Ricco has been named in Saunier Duval’s nine-man Tour de France team for the July 5-27 race as a replacement for Spaniard Jose Angel Gomez Marchante.
  The 24-year-old Ricco, seen by many in Italy as the heir to deceased Giro and Tour [...]

• Breaking News: Saunier Duval 1 hour ahead of the Peleton - Tour of California
  February 20th, 2008
  

  Is California the new training ground for the classics? Our reporter is riding about one hour ahead of the peleton today on stage three of the Tour of California when what does he discover? Saunier Duval riders training on the course. The non racing riders of the Saunier Duval team are [...]