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Kevin Evans accepts doping charge

By Press Office · 1614 comments

Cycling South Africa reports that the South African Institute for Drug-Free Sport (SAIDS) has charged mountain bike cyclist, Kevin Evans with doping after identifying serious irregularities in his Athlete Biological Passport (ABP) – a profile of the athlete’s blood parameters.

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Mr. Evans accepted the charge of doping and did not contest the findings. The ABP is a longitudinal analysis and the suspicious readings were identified over a period of time, therefore the athlete’s results extending back to 14 March 2014 will be disqualified, with all of the resulting consequences, including forfeiture of any medals, points and prizes.

He will be banned from sport for four years as of 4 March 2015 until 3 March 2019. The athlete has however indicated that he has retired from professional cycling.

Cycling South Africa respects the independence of the SAIDS process. Cycling South Africa further reiterates its zero-tolerance approach to doping in sport and will continue working with SAIDS in the promotion of a drug-free sport via its awareness and extensive testing programmes.

Update: Read the statement from Kevin Evans published on IOL
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Comments

Patchelicious
Patchelicious

Jan 20, 2016, 12:43 PM

I would like to play devils advocate here and say that the talent in youngsters at the moment in SA bar a few is pretty low and that is allowing Strong Vets mainly 30-39 show faces in races. Especially in Marathon type events where age and experience actually does play a role.

I was saying that it's easier for Vets to dope, not that they are.

Eldron
Eldron

Jan 20, 2016, 12:44 PM

My view...

 

It's fair to say i think all the pros dope.

 

It's off sides to say all pros dope.

 

Truth is we will never know until they get done so throwing the dope blanket over the whole peleton is not right.

RocknRolla
RocknRolla

Jan 20, 2016, 12:45 PM

Our development of the sport programmes are nowhere near that of international levels.

Thus we will have less local riders capable of making it on the international cirquit.

 

Plain and simple.

 

If talent ID took place properly, by qualified coaches/ sport scientists, and development followed, any talented rider can achieve good results on the internationa scene.

BarHugger
BarHugger

Jan 20, 2016, 12:45 PM

I never said any such thing. Please re-read my original post.

 

Thanks

Ah...my apologies...I just went back on your post and it read "It was posted" I read "I posted".....thanks for sharing in any case....rather disgusting the way they treated Lill....

Shebeen
Shebeen

Jan 20, 2016, 12:46 PM

The short version of this is that Kevin has been sanctioned for abnormalities March 2014 until 2015 Epic. 

 

His operation and blood transfusion / ozone therapy is 2012 /13. 

 

They are not related. No abnormalities last that long with any type of PED or treatment.

 

Simple. 

 

 

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you got the timeline wrong i think. Ozone therapy he's claiming was sep 2013, he's banned from march 2014(Epic). So it's six months apart - whether that is related is hard for joe public to know.

BarHugger
BarHugger

Jan 20, 2016, 12:47 PM

ah man, its 2016 - no prizes for puritanical zealots.. anyone over 30 doing any kind of training will enjoy benefit from some HGH or other decent peptide - no side effects, unlike AAS. Do some research, ask your doctor, get a prescription if the nanny-state mentality scares you. One life, live it, like the landy lads say..  

YOLO

Guest Lancesball
Guest Lancesball

Jan 20, 2016, 12:47 PM

Could it be that vets generally have better salaries than pro cyclists and can afford better doctors and juice to help them dope better?

 

If guys in general are being caught with EPO, testosterone and ABP then no Vet will get it better than the clan of guys who have been caught as of late. They seem to know their way around this stuff better than any Vet and his Dr.

 

No, I dont believe that.

BarHugger
BarHugger

Jan 20, 2016, 12:48 PM

I think you got the wrong end of the stick.

 

LB was saying that KE posted the pic on KE's IG account,  DL responded and that is how the fiaaahhht started boet. 

Yip...got it now....

Tumbleweed
Tumbleweed

Jan 20, 2016, 12:49 PM

Stander, Moolman, Minaar also done really well...

 

Yeah, it's not a bad list...

Skubarra
Skubarra

Jan 20, 2016, 12:50 PM

you got the timeline wrong i think. Ozone therapy he's claiming was sep 2013, he's banned from march 2014(Epic). So it's six months apart - whether that is related is hard for joe public to know.

 

From Twitter - seems to be some genuine confusion with the dates

 

@Scienceofsport Not true. SAIDS report starts exactly 13 October, 2013, not what they released. When I have your mail I can send details.

BarHugger
BarHugger

Jan 20, 2016, 12:56 PM

:)

 

Why not.

 

By that logic, I am going to dope! I will take EPO until Gauteng Champs. Then if anybody beats me, they must be doping too!

I am playing a bit of Devil's Advocate here...but if the chemical brothers as we have come to know them are doping....and in the light of the discussions over in the Strava thread...I became inquisitive and went stalking.....could we then assume that anyone who takes Max's KOM on a 9.6 km. climb could possibly be clean....... :devil:

 

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Guest Lancesball
Guest Lancesball

Jan 20, 2016, 12:56 PM

Yeah, it's not a bad list...

 

Meintjies, Carla Swart (rip) Anke Erlank etc, SA has very talented athletes they just arent exposed to what they need in order to shine and show their potential.

dirtrider
dirtrider

Jan 20, 2016, 12:58 PM

Ok I am not going to read all this but did the Hub find him guilty ?

jcza
jcza

Jan 20, 2016, 12:58 PM

It's not always as simple as that or always an extreme of completely clean or super dirty.

 

Nobody is saying that World Tours are clean!! Who would be so naive?

 

But one can confidently say that the doping in World Tour level is lower and less frequent simply based on the scrutiny that they are under.

 

As for saying that World Tour are faster than local heroes bcause they dope, that's not accurate either.

 

Out local guys have not made it to world tour level because they are not good enough, not because world tour riders are dirty.

 

Again I wasn't comparing local riders to international riders but rather recorded times up recognised climbs all over Europe. 

 

I'm glad you can confidently say that doping is lower. Not sure what you base this on as evidence suggests that micro-dosing will go undetected and we're not even talking about the next level of gene doping. 

Tumbleweed
Tumbleweed

Jan 20, 2016, 12:59 PM

From Twitter - seems to be some genuine confusion with the dates

 

@Scienceofsport Not true. SAIDS report starts exactly 13 October, 2013, not what they released. When I have your mail I can send details.

 

Yeah, the comment that Evans made about it only coming out now suggests the matter was brought up before. No one knows when results were detected - only timespan they cover - nor when the detections were made known to Evans.

RocknRolla
RocknRolla

Jan 20, 2016, 12:59 PM

Ok I am not going to read all this but did the Hub find him guilty ?

 

 

Before the thread even started... way back when...

Tumbleweed
Tumbleweed

Jan 20, 2016, 1:00 PM

Ok I am not going to read all this but did the Hub find him guilty ?

 

Yup. Hung, drawn and quartered, tarred and feathered, shot, gassed...crows are currently eating his eyeballs out of the sockets...

Tumbleweed
Tumbleweed

Jan 20, 2016, 1:03 PM

If guys in general are being caught with EPO, testosterone and ABP then no Vet will get it better than the clan of guys who have been caught as of late. They seem to know their way around this stuff better than any Vet and his Dr.

 

No, I dont believe that.

 

Middle class competitive athletes with money to burn and time on their hands make quick learners and good students.

jcza
jcza

Jan 20, 2016, 1:03 PM

I would like to play devils advocate here and say that the talent in youngsters at the moment in SA bar a few is pretty low and that is allowing Strong Vets mainly 30-39 show faces in races. Especially in Marathon type events where age and experience actually does play a role.

 

Horner won the Vuelta at 40+ ....... just saying 

Andrew Steer
Andrew Steer

Jan 20, 2016, 1:04 PM

What if the local pro scene is actually stopping us from producing top riders?

 

What if the talented riders made a bit of a name for themselves here and then went overseas to see if they really have it? Robbie did it, Greg did it, Burry did it... Ashleigh is doing it. Is the local pro team stepping stone really needed?

 

Is it not maybe too easy here, so riders don't bother with the real big time... it's probably quite lekker to sit here and be idolised for being the 860th best cyclist in the world.

 

We have the best mountain bike races in the world, but the riding competition is not here because the money in Mtb is in the Olympic sport of Cross Country - which also happens to be the more spectator friendly sport. Look at Attakwas, our guys were nowhere, against riders who aren't nearly the best in the world.

Andrew Steer
Andrew Steer

Jan 20, 2016, 1:10 PM

Horner won the Vuelta at 40+ ....... just saying 

 

Late Bloomer  :whistling:

 

I believe Micro-dosing is pretty much the norm... even here in SA I would pretty much almost expect it of any top level rider not getting the results he/his sponsors want. You can't really test for it... and especially not on the finish lines of races where SAIDS do most of their work  :blink: 

 

 

Garamundege Mugabe
Garamundege Mugabe

Jan 20, 2016, 1:16 PM

If guys in general are being caught with EPO, testosterone and ABP then no Vet will get it better than the clan of guys who have been caught as of late. They seem to know their way around this stuff better than any Vet and his Dr.

 

No, I dont believe that.

testosterone? anyone who knows anything about meds in sport knows that test, in any dose above TRT level, *detracts* from endurance ability, because it causes nasty sides like raised hematocrit, increased water retention - and cycling's all about power/weight ratio... Gotta love the armchair experts with nothing better to do than nitpick other dude's lives eh..

Tumbleweed
Tumbleweed

Jan 20, 2016, 1:16 PM

Late Bloomer  :whistling:

 

I believe Micro-dosing is pretty much the norm... even here in SA I would pretty much almost expect it of any top level rider not getting the results he/his sponsors want. You can't really test for it... and especially not on the finish lines of races where SAIDS do most of their work  :blink: 

 

 

 

You might remember how Wada and the UCI got their knickers in a twist when that Frenchman showed how easy it was to beat the ABP last year...

 

Now, get a vet who works for an IT company to get their hands on the software... :whistling:

BDF
BDF

Jan 20, 2016, 1:17 PM

ah man, its 2016 - no prizes for puritanical zealots.. anyone over 30 doing any kind of training will enjoy benefit from some HGH or other decent peptide - no side effects, unlike AAS. Do some research, ask your doctor, get a prescription if the nanny-state mentality scares you. One life, live it, like the landy lads say..  

 

Do what you want dude. Whatever blows your hair back. But if you were my kid's school coach and fed him this junk I would come after you and hard.

 

If you set your standards low enough you will always hit them.

 

Enjoy your pilletjies etc.

kosmonooit
kosmonooit

Jan 20, 2016, 1:19 PM

Well if its any consolation,it seems KE at the height of his prowess was then apparently clean ...(?)

 

and he has been through some hectic injuries, I mean how many of us had to have had to have two blood transfusions in ICU in order to live? If he did willingly disregard the fact that he could not get a TUE for his Ozone treament, perhaps he should have been open and transparent about that at the time, or simply not race. TUE are a touchy topic, remember Chris F rather rode sick that get one in the latest TdF

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