Australian rider Robert Stannard has been given a backdated four-year suspension and fined 70% of his common annual wage within the years 2018 and 2019, following a UCI Anti-Doping Tribunal.
The Tribunal discovered that the 25-year-old dedicated an Anti-Doping Rule Violation to be used of a prohibited substance or a prohibited methodology, as a consequence of unexplained abnormalities in his Organic Passport in 2018 and 2019.
The rider Organic Passport is a person digital report for every rider, wherein the outcomes of all doping assessments are collected.
The suspension is backdated, and commenced on 17 August 2018, that means that Stannard is now free to race. Nonetheless, he doesn’t presently have a contract.
Information of Stannard’s provisional suspension broke in August final 12 months. At time, he stated in an announcement, revealed by his brokers Signature Sport: “I’ve by no means deliberately or knowingly used a prohibited substance and can due to this fact ask for my case to be referred to the UCI Anti-Doping Tribunal.
“I look ahead to submitting my defence and am assured of being exonerated and persevering with my profession.”
Stannard has one month to attraction the choice, earlier than the Courtroom of Arbitration. No choice might be revealed on the UCI web site till after this date, as soon as a closing choice is made.
The Australian rode for the Mitchelton-Scott Continental staff in 2018, profitable Il Piccolo Lombardia, the Giro del Belvedere, and a stage of the Child Giro. He then signed for Mitchelton-Scott’s WorldTour staff in 2019, earlier than making the transfer to Alpecin-Deceuninck in 2022.
In 2022, he gained the Tour de Wallonie and rode the Vuelta a España.
Commenting on his suspension when the information first broke, AusCycling said: “We word that Mr Stannard rigorously rejects the said causes for the provisional suspension and has signalled his intention to attraction. AusCycling will proceed to help Mr Stannard and can present the UCI with no matter help it must swiftly resolve the matter.”