Prosecutors open investigation into doping allegations against Bahrain Victorious

• Prosecutor's office launch preliminary investigation
• Police searched riders' rooms and requested training files

A preliminary investigation into doping allegations against the Bahrain Victorious team, winner of two stages in this year's Tour de France, has been opened after the team was subjected to police raids at its hotel near Pau on Wednesday evening.

Vehicles and hotel rooms were searched by up to 50 police officers, until around 2am on Thursday morning. According to the team's manager, Milan Erzen, it was nothing special." Speaking to cyclingnews.com, Erzen said: We have a visit from the police, they ask for riders training files, they check bus and that's it.