Rifampicin should be taken on an empty stomach with a glass of water. It is generally taken either at least one hour before meals or two hours after meals. Rifampicin is also used to treat non-tuberculous mycobacterial infections including leprosy (Hansen's disease) and Mycobacterium kansasii.
The UCI requested that the âPro Teamâ license for Astana should be withdrawn. That means itâs referred the matter to the UCI License Commission, an independent, four-person committee that rules each fall on teamsâ license applications.
There are 474 riders from 41 nations registered with the 17 UCI World Tour teams for 2015. The average age of a rider is 28 years and 3 months. The oldest rider is the 40 year-old Matteo Tosatto (Tinkoff-Saxo) who is pictured above and just seven years younger than his boss Oleg Tinkov. Lampre-Meridaâs Colombian neo-pro Eduardo Estrada is the youngest pro, aged 19. Hereâs a look at the 2015 World Tour peloton in numbers.