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09.02.2016 @ 15:21 Posted by Emil Axelgaard

The UCI has announced that Katusha will escape suspension after two of its riders tested positive within a period of 12 months.

 

On 10 July 2015, Luca Paolini was notified of an Adverse Analytical Finding (presence of cocaine) relating to a sample taken during an in-competition test on 7 July 2015. A disciplinary procedure before the UCI Anti-Doping Tribunal is under way. 

On 5 February 2016, Eduard Vorganov was notified of an Adverse Analytical Finding (presence of Meldonium) in a sample collected during an out-of-competition control on 14 January 2016. The rider is provisionally suspended until the adjudication of the affair.

 

According to art. 7.12.1 of the UCI anti-doping rules, a team can be suspended for a month in case of two positive tests within 12 months as it happened to Androni last year. However, the President of the Disciplinary Commission has determined that: "The conditions for a suspension of Team Katusha in application of art. 7.12.1 the UCI Anti-Doping Rules have not been met."


Following the notification of a second case of an Adverse Analytical Finding in the UCI WorldTeam Katusha within a twelve-month period, the UCI referred the matter to the Disciplinary Commission on 6 February.

The President of the Disciplinary Commission based this decision on the following considerations, among others:

 

“The text of the article [7.12.1] refers to the fact that the decision must take into account "all the circumstances of the case";

“With regard to the [Paolini case, it has been] established that the rider's taking of cocaine was not related to an intention to influence sporting performance but was rather taken on a "recreational" basis;

“In this context, applying a suspension under article 7.12.1 when one of the two cases of Adverse Analytical Finding relates to [the use of] a social drug cannot be reconciled with the aim of the article. Even if, strictly speaking, such a case falls within the application of the anti-doping rules for the rider concerned, the imposition of negative consequences for the whole team would be inappropriate and disproportionate”;

“It is understood that the intention of the article is to impose negative consequences on teams that lack control of doping for sporting purposes by their athletes, or if even worse scenarios exist, and/or if teams are not doing enough to fight such doping”;

“The President of the Commission has expressed that he could share the view that it would be disproportionate to suspend a team on the basis that one of its members [uses] a social drug, the consumption of which is not related to sporting performance”.

 

The decision allows the team to continue at the Tour of Qatar where Alexander Kristoff won today's stage.

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