Román Villalobos
Román Villalobos Solís (born 24 June 1990) is a Costa Rican cyclist, who is provisionally suspended from the sport after taking blood transfusions and a positive anti-doping test for androgen and anabolic steroid metandienone at the 2018 Vuelta Ciclista a Costa Rica.[2]
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Román Villalobos Solís |
| Born | 24 June 1990 Heredia, Costa Rica[1] |
| Team information | |
| Current team | Provisionally suspended |
| Discipline | Road |
| Role | Rider |
| Amateur teams | |
| 2012 | Koplad–Uni2 |
| 2013 | Telco'm–Conor |
| 2014 | JPS–Giant |
| 2015 | Nestlé–Giant |
| Professional teams | |
| 2016–2017 | Canel's–Specialized |
| 2017 | LA Alumínios / Metalusa Blackjack |
| 2018–2019 | Canel's–Specialized |
Major results
- 2012
- 1st
- 2nd Overall Vuelta Ciclista a Costa Rica
- 3rd Overall Vuelta a Guatemala
- 2014
- 1st Stage 5 Vuelta Ciclista a Costa Rica
- 2015
- 1st Overall Vuelta a Guatemala
- 1st Stage 3
- 2nd Overall Vuelta Ciclista a Costa Rica
- 1st Stage 8
- 2016
- 1st Overall Vuelta a Guatemala
- 1st Stage 5
- Vuelta Ciclista a Costa Rica
- 1st Stages 5 & 6 (ITT)
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gollark: Also, the "disaster is inevitable" thing seems... wrong. I think if stuff is handled correctly humanity can weather the problems we currently are and are going to experience and, er, do well. Problem is that there are lots of ways to do things very wrong.
gollark: *Probably* still better than before cities and stuff. Diseases spread anyway then, but less so, and we can actually treat them and have hygiene and sanitation now.
gollark: Still, I think on the whole we're better off disease-wise than the people of, say, 400 years ago.
gollark: Hmm, I suppose so on the population densities one.
References
- Profile at Sitio de Ciclismo.net
- Reza, Rebecca (6 August 2019). "Lifting the fog on Costa Rican doping controversies". VeloNews. Pocket Outdoor Media, LLC. Retrieved 14 March 2020.
After this story was published in VeloNews magazine, it was announced by the UCI that Villalobos tested positive for blood transfusions and methandienone [sic], a banned substance, at the Vuelta.
External links
- Román Villalobos at ProCyclingStats
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