{"id":18917,"date":"2015-12-17T12:25:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-17T12:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/2015\/12\/17\/rourke-croeser-tests-positive-for-epo-r3925\/"},"modified":"2023-02-08T08:49:48","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T08:49:48","slug":"rourke-croeser-tests-positive-for-epo-r3925","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/rourke-croeser-tests-positive-for-epo-r3925\/","title":{"rendered":"Rourke Croeser tests positive for EPO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cycling South Africa reports that mountain bike cyclist Rourke Croeser returned an adverse analytical finding in an out-of-competition test conducted on 30 August 2015. The analytical report confirmed the presence of Recombinant EPO in his urine sample. Mr. Croeser elected to have his B sample analysed which confirmed the result.<\/p>\n<p>As per the SAIDS rules, Mr. Croeser was placed under provisional suspension as of 8 October 2015, the date on which he was notified of the adverse analytical finding. The case will now be referred to the Independent Doping Hearing Panel for hearing and adjudication.<\/p>\n<p>Cycling South Africa respects the independence of the SAIDS process and will respect the outcome. Cycling SA 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<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bikehub.co.za\/topic\/156317-top-sa-mountain-biker-tests-positive-for-epo\/\" rel=\"external nofollow\"><strong>Go to Forum discussion<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cycling South Africa reports that mountain bike cyclist Rourke Croeser returned an adverse analytical finding in an out-of-competition test conducted on 30 August 2015. The analytical report confirmed the presence of Recombinant EPO in his urine sample. Mr. Croeser elected to have his B sample analysed which confirmed the result. As per the SAIDS rules, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[472,3252,2975],"featured_location":[],"class_list":["post-18917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-doping","tag-epo","tag-rourke-croeser"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18917","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=18917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18917"},{"taxonomy":"featured_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/featured_location?post=18917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}