Cycling - Tour de France - The 195-km Stage 4 from La Baule to Sarzeau - July 10, 2018 - UCI President David Lappartient on the podium. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier
PARIS (Reuters) - After becoming the first sport to ban Tramadol, cycling is looking to use the same "health reasons" justification to prohibit the use of corticosteroids by 2020, International Cycling Union (UCI) president David Lappartient told Reuters.
The UCI banned Tramadol, an opiate painkiller, at the beginning of this month, conducting 43 tests on the Paris-Nice stage race that ended last Sunday.
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