{"id":22151,"date":"2012-11-06T10:05:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-06T10:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/top-local-endurance-cyclist-tests-positive-r344\/"},"modified":"2023-02-08T12:35:32","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T12:35:32","slug":"top-local-endurance-cyclist-tests-positive-r344","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/top-local-endurance-cyclist-tests-positive-r344\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Local Endurance Cyclist Tests Positive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>06 November 2012 &#8211; Cycling SA reports that David George returned an adverse analytical finding in an out-of-competition test conducted by the South African Institute for Drug-Free Sport (SAIDS) on 29 August 2012.<\/p>\n<p>George is therefore provisionally suspended with immediate effect from competing in any event. The SAIDS process will now take its course.<\/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 confirms that there is no evidence of this being an endemic problem in the sport in South Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>06 November 2012 &#8211; Cycling SA reports that David George returned an adverse analytical finding in an out-of-competition test conducted by the South African Institute for Drug-Free Sport (SAIDS) on 29 August 2012. George is therefore provisionally suspended with immediate effect from competing in any event. The SAIDS process will now take its course. Cycling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"featured_location":[],"class_list":["post-22151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22151","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22151"},{"taxonomy":"featured_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/featured_location?post=22151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}