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Spanish cyclist Maria Isabel Moreno tests positive for EPO
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Spanish cyclist Maria Isabel Moreno has tested positive for EPO, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced on Monday.

IOC communication director Giselle Davies told the reporters at a press conference that the athlete had been disqualified from the ongoing Beijing Olympic Games.

"The executive board ruled that the athlete should be excluded from the Games," she said.

The road cycling athletes was found using the blood-boosting EPO or erythropoietin following a July 31 out-of-competition test in the Athletes Village, Davies said.

The athlete has already left the Village before the result came out, she said.

The 27-year-old Moreno originally entered for women's individual time trial.

(Xinhua News Agency August 11, 2008)

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