Incidents
Fois positive #3 23/10/2002 Positive test ID 141
Date is that of the announcement of the positive, for which Fois received a three-year ban as a repeat offender. Fois made a later, brief return to the peloton but addiction problems and a jail sentence for theft prefigured his eventual suicide in 2008.
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- Gibo off the hook , Fois out for 36 months, Cyclingnews.com, 23/10/2002
- Simoni, è assoluzione Tre anni di stop a Fois, Corriere della Sera, 23/10/2002
- Fois racconta: La mia vita tra cocaina e depressione, La Gazzetta dello Sport, 14/09/2007
- Le coureur Valentino Fois retrouvé mort, Le Soir, 28/03/2008
- Giallo sulla morte di Fois, amico di Pantani, Corriere della Sera, 29/03/2008