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"While I was eating dinner with my team the night before Tour
of Utah I received a call from USADA notifying me that a out of
competition test I gave July 9th has tested positive for, from
what I understand, synthetic testosterone," Danielson said on
Twitter.
"I have not taken this or any other banned substance."
Danielson was handed a six-month ban in 2012-13 after admitting
to blood doping while riding with The Discovery Channel team.
The 37-year-old said he would skip the Tour of Utah, which
starts on Monday. He won the race the last two years.
"I feel incredibly hurt, frustrated, and angry by this. I don't
understand how or why this happened and still can't even accept
this is true," added Danielson, who placed eighth in the 2011
Tour de France.
(Reporting by Julien Pretot; Editing by Peter Rutherford)
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