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Food contamination blamed for Andrea Iannone's failed drugs test

Andrea Iannone's team are claiming that food contamination is to blame for the MotoGP rider failing a drugs test, which has led to him being provisionally banned from the sport. Iannone was provisionally banned in mid-December after traces of the banned anabolic exogenous androgenic steroid Drostanolone was found in a urine sample provided after the Malaysian Grand Prix. A second specimen, ‘sample B', comfirmed this according to a report by La Gazzetta dello Sport, however the traces were very small and his team believe this backs up claims that the banned substance could have been ingested through contaminated foods. 'The counter analysis should attest to the presence of...
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