 Several notable riders in the Giro were announced to have tested positive for banned performance @-@ enhancing drugs after the race concluded . Prominent amongst them was CSF Group – Navigare rider Emanuele Sella , a triple stage winner , winner of the mountains classification , and a key rider to CSF Group – Navigare 's victory in the teams classification . It was announced on 5 August that Sella had tested positive for Methoxy polyethylene glycol @-@ epoetin beta , better known as Mircera , a third @-@ generation form of the banned blood booster erythropoietin . At the time the Giro was run , the test for Mircera was still in development . An out @-@ of @-@ competition control was taken on 23 July , just days after positives from the 2008 Tour de France had come to light , and samples were sent to labs in Paris for analysis . UCI President Pat McQuaid said that Sella had been targeted in the control and that " [ i ] t wasn 't rocket science " to conclude that Sella 's performances in the Giro could have been artificially enhanced . 
