An Post Rás Stage Winner Banned From Cycling For Eight Years
By Photos Robert Haslam
Feb 14, 2016, 15:57
Francesco Reda, Team Idea 2010 ASD Takes Stage 1 Into Carlow
Stage 1 Winner of the An Post Rás 2015 Francesco Reda of the Italian Team Idea-Conad has been banned from cycling for 8 years.
Francesco who was disqualified from the Rás for taking a tow from a car.
His problems got worse when in the Italian National Championship he was caught with traces of EPO in his blood.
Reda finished second to Vincenzo Nibali. He has been stripped of his medal by the Italian Cycling Federation and banned from cycling for 8 years which will make him 41 years old when he serves his ban.
