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British cyclist Dan Stevens to serve 21 month doping ban

Stevens now the third Brit banned for doping - sentence reduced after he gave doping information

British cyclist Dan Stevens is now the third Brit serving a racing suspension under anti-doping rules, having failed to supply a sample for an out-of-competition anti-doping test on January 29, 2014.

Originally set at two years, the ban has been reduced to 21 months after Stevens gave some information to the Cycling Independent Reform Commission.

UK Anti-Doping said that Stevens gave “valuable anti-doping information” that justified a three-month shortening of the ban.

Stevens appealed against the decision this week, but later agreed to refrain from racing until November 1 2015.

All race results over the past 9 months have been annulled.

Stevens now joins Jason White and Jonathan Tiernan-Locke who are both serving two-year bans.

We reported earlier this year that banned Sky rider Tiernan-Locke says he plans to return to racing next season – and insists he can return to the form he showed in 2012 which brought him the overall win at the Tour of Britain and a high-profile transfer to Team Sky.

The 30-year-old from Devon said: "I've no doubt that I can get back to the level I was riding at in 2012.

"I also believe I can make myself a more complete rider than before. If I can do the top UK Premier Calendar races and, say, UCI 2.2-level events, and pick up wins, that would be great.

"And I'd like to have a proper crack at the National Road Race Championships, where I've never done as well as I've wanted in the past."

Tiernan-Locke received a partly backdated two-year ban last July for irregularities in his athlete biological passport (ABP) which were found to be consistent with his having used a prohibited method or substance.

He insisted that the abnormal values, dating from September 2012, resulted from his being dehydrated after a night out celebrating his move to Sky with his girlfriend in Bristol in which he said he consumed 33 units of alcohol.

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Iamnot Wiggins | 8 years ago
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Who?

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Leviathan replied to Iamnot Wiggins | 8 years ago
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atlaz | 8 years ago
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From a bit of Google guesswork I'd say he rode for Neon-Velo Cycling Team as this twitter feed is currently full of anti-doping retweets which I guess is him pointing at other people saying they're doping and I just refused to take a test. I could be wrong of course.

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Bokonon | 8 years ago
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Dan Stevens who?

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Leviathan replied to Bokonon | 8 years ago
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Bokonon wrote:

Dan Stevens who?

Exactly, though he was on Downton Abbey.

Meanwhile, JTL should come back just for having the best excuse ever. I'm not a cheat I'm a wee alkeey b*stard.

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notfastenough | 8 years ago
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Why no further info on Stevens? His name rings a bell, but from the scant detail here, I've no idea why...

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Beaufort | 8 years ago
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Why is he allowed to compete again ? He has 'agreed to refrain from racing', a tacit admission after appealing the decision to ban him. I do not understand how he can possibly compete again as a pro. This is the problem....and life bans must be the logical answer...and by life I mean life.

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Jharrison5 | 8 years ago
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All the bans! And shopping is very different to doping! A 21st century problem.

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Jharrison5 | 8 years ago
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Meanwhile, rugby is the dirtiest sport in Britain, closely followed by the other rugby. Then boxing, weightlifting, wrestling -still no cycling or athletics yet! All the Babb's are available at http://www.ukad.org.uk/mobile__anti-doping-rule-violations/current-viola...

Our media is terrible at reporting shopping in its favoured events. Is it because it's easy to report on ball sports, or there's some other advantage for journalists at the venues?

I read a paper yesterday that suggested as many as 7% of champions league footballers showed signs of steroid abuse. Only 60 ABPs are kept by world rugby, and only for the last year. Cycling and athletics are ahead of others when it comes to anti doping. No credit is ever given to governing bodies for that.

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brooksby | 8 years ago
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(edited) 33 units of alcohol in one session? How can he remember what he was doing???

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Yorky-M | 8 years ago
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Proves it can't make a donkey into a tiger

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Airzound | 8 years ago
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Why oh why do these idiots still dope? Do they realise they just aren't good enough so convince themselves they need to do it to remain on the pace and in Pro cycling? In which case just give up and do something else. Lying to yourselves and ruining it for clean riders.

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