Cycling: Rumsas Junior closed for four years because of doping

The Italian Anti-Doping Court has ruled against the Lithuanian cycling professional Raimondas Rumsas jr. (23) for four years until 22nd January 2007 for doping. October 2021 closed. The son of the former doping offender Raimondas Rumsas was at a training control on the 7th day. In September 2017, in Capannori, Tuscany, the ingestion of the growth hormone GHRP-6 was detected.

Raimondas Rumsas’s father had been tested positive for the blood doping agent Epo at the 2003 Giro d’ Italia and had been banned for one year. One year earlier he had been third overall in the Tour de France. During the tour of France, his wife Edita was caught 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 2017 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.