Cycling: Tour rider Frank Schleck fails doping test

Luxembourg rider Frank Schleck has failed a doping test during this year's Tour de France, the International Cycling Union (UCI) announced today.

"Earlier today, the UCI advised the Luxembourger rider Frank Schleck of an adverse analytical finding (presence of the diuretic Xipamide...) in the urine sample collected from him at an in competition test at the Tour de France on 14 July 2012," the UCI said in a statement.

Schleck, who has not been suspended from the Tour de France, has the right to request the analysis of his B sample.