Facts
The appellant appeals against the decision, dated April 26, 2012, of the disciplinary committee of the Royal Dutch Cycling Federation (Koninklijke Nederlandsche Wielren Unie, KNWU) for which the sanction was a period of ineligibility of two years for the positive finding of a metabolite of the prohibited substance methyltestosterone.
History
The appellant claims irregularities which where not communicated and for that reason couldn't be used in the defence. The B-sample analysis was done without permission of the appellant. Also the appellant argues that the marker used for analysis could have caused the positive test.
However the panel considers the doping test as valid according to the international standards. Appellant had succeeded in proving that the positive test was caused by contaminated supplements, which allows a reduction of the sanction.
Decision
1. The sanction is reduced to a period of ineligibility of one year.
