Leal declared winner after Ospina refuses drugs test

The principals and the prize winners of this year’s five-stage road race pose for a photo opportunity following the closing ceremony yesterday at the National Cultural Centre. (Orlando Charles photo) 

Team Coco’s Carlos Ospina was a winner on the road but a loser before he entered the drug testing room.

The Colombian won yesterday’s finale of the ‘Tour of Guyana’ five-stage road race and was destined to take the spoils of this year’s event but his refusal to take a random drug test gifted second place finisher, Raul Leal the coveted champion’s trophy.

Ospina had won the first and final stages and battled 48 other wheelsmen in searing heat over 266 miles during the