Cycling: A rider on this year's Tour de France failed a dope test during the race, the International Cycling Union (UCI) announced today.
"The UCI received today a report from the anti-doping laboratory in Paris stating (there was) an adverse analytical finding following an anti-doping test carried out at the Tour de France 2006," the sport's governing body said in a statement.
Details of the rider were not released and the UCI said their anti-doping rules did not allow them to make his name public at this time, although they added his team and national federation had been informed of the test result.
"The adverse analytical finding received this morning relates to the first analysis, and will have to be confirmed either by a counter-analysis required by the rider, or by the fact that the rider renounces (his right) to that counter-analysis," the statement read.
The test was conducted at a specialised anti-doping lab in Chatenay-Malabry, outside Paris, from a sample taken during the Tour.
Tour de France organisers were unavailable for immediate comment.
This year's Tour was hit by a doping scandal on the eve of the prologue when pre-race favourites Ivan Basso of Italy and German Jan Ullrich were forced to pull out and were suspended after being implicated in a doping investigation in Spain.