With a 4 year ban in place, the planned "farewell tour" will not be possible. Compton had already previously announced her planned retirement following the conclusion of the 2021/22 cyclocross season, which includes the Fayetteville, Arkansas World Championship on USA soil next Spring. We wish her well with her future endeavors." Retirementįrom a timing standpoint, this sanction trims the final season off a career that was already ending. We trust the process was fair and respect USADA's decision and Katie's decision to retire. Sponsors ReactĬompton's longtime sponsor Trek Bikes, issued a curt press release through Cyclingnews: "We were made aware of Katie's positive test and are disappointed by the news. Compton was vocal in her objection to Betsema's short suspension, and called for stronger penalties throughout her career.Ĭompton, in her statement, indicated she had hired an attorney, but ultimately decided to accept the suspension in part because any supplements she consumed were long gone, due to the amount of time passing between the date of the sample (September 2020) and the date she was notified of the positive test result (February 2021). It's worth noting that Betsema was able to contest her result by demonstrating that she had consumed a contaminated sports supplement.
The obvious parallel is to the suspension of Denise Betsema, who received a backdated, 6 month suspension following a failed test. Other doping casesĬompton's suspension must be evaluated alongside other notable suspensions. Later, as pointed out in Cosmo Catalano's interesting article on this same topic, the portion of the post containing the text "comprised (note: Legg presumably meant 'compromised') UCI member" was later deleted, and no longer appears in Legg's post. This statement appears to hint at some sort of conspiracy within the UCI, or that Compton was retaliated against. We hired lawyers and fought this as hard as we could afforf until we couldn’t keep throwing money at a hopeless situation." Fortunately we sort help for our mental struggles. We’ve both had depression and suicidal thoughts over the past months. We’re now both taking anti-depressants to cope with the mental stress. Katie used the same supplements all season and was tested as usual in and out of Competition with no issues. The result of the retest was positive for exogenous testerone. Hours after the call a lab in LA started re-testing Katie’s Sept sample that had previously been declared negative. We had a video conference with the agen cy while we were in Belgium on January 19th. In early January I contacted an ant-doping agency regarding issues in Cyclocross and a comprised UCI member. "Katie was tested in September 2020 using the last ball bearing bottle aka the Beringer bottle which was taken out of use due the Icarus documentary on Russians swapping out urine samples which came back negative. Mark Legg, husband of Katie Compton who has acted as her mechanic throughout her career, posted the following statement on Facebook.
Katie Compton's statementĬompton released an official response to the USADA suspension: The USADA statement did not list the specific anabolic agent in question. The list of anabolic androgenic steroids (AAS) published by USADA is substantial, and includes familiar names like testosterone. What is an anabolic agent?Īnabolic agents are powerful performance-enhancing drugs. Discrepancies in the biological passport program apparently prompted the follow-up testing. While USADA has not shared the specific details at this time, a urine sample was analyzed with a Carbon Isotope Ratio test, designed to differentiate between the anabolic androgenic steroids (which are produced naturally by the human body) and anabolic agents of external origin, which are, of course, prohibited. Per the USADA press release, Compton tested positive on a drug test conducted out of competition on September 16, 2020. A post shared by RideCX (pictured here at the 2019 USA Cycling cyclocross national championship) also had several near-misses at the World Cyclocross Championship, finishing second on four separate occasions.
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