Prosecutor’s office launches preliminary investigationPolice search riders’ rooms and request training filesA preliminary investigation into doping allegations against the Bahrain Victorious team, winners of two stages in this year’s Tour de
France, has been opened after the team was subjected to
police raids at its hotel near Pau on Wednesday evening.
Vehicles and hotel rooms were searched by up to 50 police officers, until around 2am on Thursday morning. According to the team’s manager, Milan Erzen, it was “nothing special”. Speaking to cyclingnews.com, Erzen said: “We have a visit from the police, they ask for riders’ training files, they check bus and that’s it.”