Cycling: Pirazzi and Rumsas banned because of doping

Two doping cases cause a sensation in Italian cycling.On Tuesday, the Italian Stefan Pirazzi (30) was suspended for four years due to the intake of the growth hormone GHRP-6.The Lithuanian cycling professional Raimondas Rumsas jr. (23), who lives in Italy, fell through a doping test in September because of the same substance.

Italy’s Anti-Doping Public Prosecutor shut down the son of former doping offender Raimondas Rumsas as a “precautionary measure”on Tuesday.

Doping is a recurring topic in the wheel family Rumsas.Rumsas sr., third overall of the Tour de France 2002, had been tested at the Giro d’ Italia 2003 for the blood doping agent Epo and had been closed for one year.One year earlier, his wife Edita had been arrested and arrested at a border check in Italy with considerable amounts of epo, anabolic steroids and stimulants in her car.

The younger son Linas, himself an amateur racer, died of a heart attack in May this year at the age of 21.The public prosecutor’s office of the Tuscan city of Lucca suspects that this was the result of taking banned doping substances.

Pirazzi had been positively tested during the training before the Giro d’ Italia in May. In 2013 he won the mountain jersey on the tour of Italy.