Mathias Flückiger has been exonerated of any anti-doping rule violations regarding an opposed analytical end result from 2022.
The Swiss rider examined optimistic for traces of zeranol on June 5, 2022 simply earlier than profitable the World Cup in Leogang.
Following the end result, Flückiger was provisionally suspended, lacking the European and World Championships and the ultimate World Cup spherical in 2022.
4 months later, Swiss Olympic lifted the ban, ruling that the discovering ought to have been categorised as ‘atypical’ slightly than optimistic as the quantity in his pattern was beneath the detection threshold and shouldn’t have triggered a provisional suspension.
“It’s an intermediate success in the direction of justice and reality,” Flückiger wrote on Instagram after the suspension was lifted.
“However sadly the case is just not but closed. The fixed uncertainty, the months of ready, the unfounded accusations should lastly come to an finish.
“I thank all those that have supported me on this extraordinarily troublesome time and all those that haven’t prejudged me!”
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Zeranol is banned by WADA below the category anabolic steroids however is just not accepted to be used in people, slightly it’s a veterinary drug used as a progress promoter in livestock.
Flückiger was in a position to persuade the Swiss anti-doping authorities that his doping check end result may have moderately come from meals contamination by way of hair evaluation and a standard steroid profile in his Athlete Organic Passport (ABP). Doping controls taken six days earlier than and 5 days after confirmed no traces of the drug.
Whereas the 35-year-old was allowed to proceed competing, he was not absolutely cleared of any anti-doping rule violations till Friday.
The ruling opens the door for Flückiger to return to the Olympic Video games after taking the silver medal behind Tom Pidcock in Tokyo.
Each riders will compete within the World Cup in Nove Mesto this weekend.
