The UCI have disqualified Ukrainian rider Mykhaylo Kononenko from the outcomes of the boys’s highway World Championships after a dried blood pattern revealed the presence of tramadol and its two essential metabolites.
The UCI revealed that 32 dried blood samples have been collected as a part of the tramadol programme on the 2022 World Championships in Wollongong, Australia.
35-year-old Kononenko has ridden for numerous Continental groups throughout his 16-year profession. He rode for the Turkish Sakarya BB Professional Staff in 2022 and received a stage and the general classification on the Tour of Sakarya. He completed forty third within the elite males’s highway race in Wollongong and was additionally a part of the Ukraine staff that completed twelfth within the Staff Relay occasion.
The highly effective painkiller is just not categorised as a performance-enhancing drug however has been banned by the UCI since March 2019.
The foundations imply any rider returning a optimistic end result for the substance throughout a race by way of a blood droplet check is disqualified from the competitors the place the optimistic was found, whereas a second offence carries a five-month ban. WADA has not too long ago introduced that tramadol will develop into a banned substance from 2024.
Kononenko now has ten days to determine whether or not to attraction to the Court docket of Arbitration for Sport (CAS). Nonetheless, he can be conscious that Nairo Quintana not too long ago misplaced his attraction to CAS.
The Colombian climber examined optimistic twice for tramadol in the course of the Tour de France, the place he completed sixth total however misplaced these outcomes. CAS decided that the UCI’s in-competition ban on tramadol was for medical slightly than doping causes and was due to this fact throughout the UCI’s energy and jurisdiction.
