After the cases that have shaken Portuguese cycling in recent years, the most significant of which related to the W52-FC Porto team, Portuguese cycling has been shaken by two more cases.
The two cases date back to 2023, the year in which the extension of the use of biological passports to all cyclists came into force and the Portuguese Cycling Federation preventively suspended the athletes for having anomalies in their biological passports, according to the Lusa news agency.
Frederico Figueiredo of Sabgal / Anicolor and Luís Gomes of GI Group Holding - Simoldes- UDO were also provisionally suspended by the Portuguese Anti-Doping Authority, and disciplinary proceedings are currently underway.
Frederico Figueiredo is 33 years old and recently won the GP Jornal de Noticias and played an important and fundamental role in Artem Nych's Volta a Portugal victory. As one of the most renowned and feared climbers in Portuguese cycling, he has finished the Grandissima on the podium twice (2020 3rd place and 2022 2nd place) and has three overall victories in the GP Joaquim Agostinho (2020, 2021 and 2022).
The 30-year-old Luis Gomes has three stage wins in the Volta a Portugal to his name, having also won the mountain jersey in 2019 and the points jersey in 2020. The last time he raised his arms was in a stage of the 2024 GP Jornal de Noticias.
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