The team announced Friday that Thomas Voeckler, who suffers from digestive problems for several months, has spent this week a series of tests, which detected gastritis. Suddenly, the runner Bbox, winner this summer of the fifteenth stage of the Tour de France, was forced to declare the package for the Grand Prix Ouest-France program Sunday. He has provided for back on his bike for the Tour du Poitou-Charentes (24-27 August)..

Questioned Liberia and extradited to the United States on suspicion of cocaine trafficking, the Russian pilot Konstantin Iarochenko was left without medical care in an American prison, told, Tuesday RIA Novosti counsel for the complainant Bojenko Alexander.

I met with Konstantin Iarochenko Saturday, July 24. He told me he had so far received no medical assistance. He had not been examined by a doctor and do not have the necessary medication, said the lawyer, adding that the pilot suffered from chronic diseases, including gastritis.

According to a statement released June 2 by prosecutors for the Southern District of New York, Mr. Iarochenko is suspected of having shipped cocaine by air in America South Africa and Europe. According to prosecutors, he was arrested in Liberia with four alleged accomplices with them and extradited to the United States.