Gerolsteiner's Schumacher, Piepoli, test positive (AFP)

PARIS (AFP) - Leading German cyclist Stefan Schumacher, a double stage winner on this year's Tour de France, has tested positive for doping, his Gerolsteiner team confirmed on Monday. Schumacher was the second rider to test positive on Monday after Leonardo Piepoli, who won the race's 10th stage. Gerolsteiner team boss Hans-Michael Holczer revealed the news about Schumacher to German sports agency SID, confirming earlier reports on the website of sports newspaper L'Equipe. L'Equipe claimed Schumacher had tested positive for a new generation of the banned blood booster EPO called CERA (Continuous Erythropoiesis Receptor Activator) though Gerolsteiner did not mention any substance. Holczer told SID: "The director of the Tour, Christian Prudhomme, has confirmed it and I have no doubt that it (Schumacher's positive test) is... [read full story]