Rebellin resulted positive to the test for Cera during the Beijing Olympic Games

Cycling again in chaos. Once again to resound from the inside of two wheels environment is not the victory of a great champion, but an athlete’s positivity. Davide Rebellin has proved to be positive to the notorious Cera, the epo of third generation. Checks made during the last Olympic games of Pechino, has noticed as positive the Italian athlete (who moreover had already gained the silver medal in the trial run), and also five more athletes from athletics, rowing and swimming. A news which arrives as a bolt from the blue after not even a week that him had awarded for the third time the prize Freccia Vallone for his own career and was at the second place of the last edition of international ranking of the International Cycle Union (Uci). The samples had been made during the recent Olympic Chinese games. After months the Olympic International Committee made some new tests on 948 of the four thousand analyzed champions from the 8th to the 24th of the last august. Think that just the same Rebellin said when he was in Beijing just descended from the platform: “This is the victory of the honest cycling!”. On the one hand the venetian champion defend himself and swear he’s never take those substances, now we’re waiting for the verdict which will assign or not any responsibility. If the response will be positive, it should be necessary to proceed with the confiscation of titles, medals, notorious victories, and besides it will be inflicted them a disqualification and so removed the opportunity to take part to the Italian Tour of the Centenary. “Tests- as the International Olympic Committee told, have been improved by a new better technology to search proofs of a forbidden use of Cera and Insulin”. A year 2009 started with the best expectations for the cyclist from Veneto: after he won for the third time the prize Freccia Vallone, he broke the fast of Italian Cycling which still wasn’t succeeded to catch a northern league. The Cera is the fourth generation doping, that increases the number of red corpuscles in the blood, increasing this way the resistance, and permitting a less perception of exertion. The same activator that Riccardo Riccò, the young rising aster of Italian Cycling, exposed to the audience during the last year Tour. “We fall from the clouds. Davide didn’t do nothing” are the few words of his wife Selina. No comment instead from the Italian Ct Franco Ballerini. “Untill nothing coulden’t be cleared up – said Bruseghin, one of the azzurri who ran the 2008 Olympics – I avail of the faculty of not believing it”. Riccò, who instead still bears the wound of positivity inside himself, said: “he will go through a bad patch. Only in family he will find the aid to come out of this situation”.