{"id":18855,"date":"2016-01-18T11:25:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-18T11:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/2016\/01\/18\/kevin-evans-accepts-doping-charge-r3991\/"},"modified":"2023-02-08T08:47:31","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T08:47:31","slug":"kevin-evans-accepts-doping-charge-r3991","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/kevin-evans-accepts-doping-charge-r3991\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Evans accepts doping charge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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) \u2013 a profile of the athlete\u2019s blood parameters.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"ipsAttachLink ipsAttachLink_image\" href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.bikehub.co.za\/production\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ccs-62657-0-90136700-1453116564.jpg\" data-fileid=\"663278\" data-fileext=\"jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-fileid=\"663278\" class=\"ipsImage ipsImage_thumbnailed\" alt=\"ccs-62657-0-90136700-1453116564.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.bikehub.co.za\/production\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ccs-62657-0-90136700-1453116564.jpg\"><\/a><span class=\"italic text-sm text-slate-500 block mt-1 mb-4\">Photo credit: Dave Macleod\/\u2028Gameplan Media <\/span><\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s results extending back to 14 March 2014 will be disqualified, with all of the resulting consequences, including forfeiture of any medals, points and prizes.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<div class=\"bg-slate-100 p-5\">\n<strong>Update: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/sport\/cycling\/evans-defends-test-results-1.1972478\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read the statement from Kevin Evans published on IOL<\/strong><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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) \u2013 a profile of the athlete\u2019s blood parameters. Photo credit: Dave Macleod\/\u2028Gameplan Media Mr. Evans accepted the charge of doping and did not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":44878,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[472,3189],"featured_location":[],"class_list":["post-18855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","tag-doping","tag-kevin-evans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18855"},{"taxonomy":"featured_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/featured_location?post=18855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}