This was devastating news to me as I have never intentionally or knowingly put anything like that into my body. In early February of 2021, after returning from a difficult race season, I learned that the same sample from September was re-analyzed due to a bio-passport irregularity and found to be positive for an exogenous anabolic steroid. I’ve received that same letter after every test I’ve submitted for the last 19 years. That news was communicated to me in the same way it has always been via a letter from USADA. I provided a sample for USADA in September 2020 that came back negative for any banned substances, it was not even atypical. I need to preface this news with the fact that I have always been a clean athlete, and I am proud of how much I have accomplished racing clean and being very careful with whatever I put into my body, especially after dealing with so many health issues throughout my life. This news comes with great heartache and sadness, and it is the worst possible way to end my cycling career. cyclocross racer ever, with 15 elite national titles and a collection of World Cup victories and world championships medals. I still love riding my bike and enjoying that with friends, but I have no desire to ever race or be competitive again, which is probably good since the sanction includes a four-year ban from competition.”Ĭompton is the most decorated U.S. I’ve processed all the emotions over the past year and realized that I don’t need bike racing in my life anymore. This news is gut-wrenching to me and the worst period I’ve ever experienced during my life so far.
“My friends and family know how much I’m against doping and know it is a topic in which I have always been outspoken. “So, it is with great stress and sorrow that I’ve ended my competitive career,” Compton wrote. She said that she has decided to stop fighting the legal battle, and has instead accepted the sanction due to the expenses involved with the legal battle.
#Katie compton and tue full
And not only that, I never took anything for ethical and moral reasons I’ve been a strong proponent of clean sport my entire career and feel doing anything to enhance one’s own natural ability is cheating, full stop.”Ĭompton said she hired a lawyer in March in an attempt to defend herself, but that she was unsuccessful in finding out how the banned substance got into her system. “I know how delicate women’s hormones are, and I would never choose to take anything to jeopardize my health and, as a result, suffer irreparable damage to my endocrine system. “This was devastating news to me as I have never intentionally or knowingly put anything like that into my body,” Compton wrote.
Compton said that in early 2021 she was informed that the same sample had returned a positive result for exogenous anabolic steroids. On Wednesday USADA published a statement saying that Compton had accepted a four-year ban after a sample taken in September, 2020, tested positive for a banned anabolic agent after it was analyzed using a Carbon Isotope Ratio test, which is reportedly able to detect natural anabolic agents and those introduced from outside of the body.Ĭompton pushed back on the USADA report, saying that she was initially informed that her sample from September, 2020 returned a negative result. “It physically hurts and makes me incredibly sad.” “Ending my career this way is simply soul-crushing,” Compton wrote.
#Katie compton and tue professional
Compton also said she was ending her professional career in the wake of the news, and that she was stepping away from the sport. In a statement issued to the press, Compton, 42, said she had never knowingly or intentionally put a banned anabolic steroid into her body - a statement that contradicts the USADA statement on her. Anti-doping agency that she had tested positive for a banned anabolic agent in 2020. cyclocross great Katie Compton pushed back on Wednesday’s bombshell news from the U.S. Heading out the door? Read this article on the new Outside+ app available now on iOS devices for members!
0 kommentar(er)
