Related case:
UKAD 2015 UKAD vs Gabriel Evans
December 18, 2015
On 18 December 2015 the United Kingdom Anti-Doping (UKAD) imposed a 3 year and 6 month period of ineligiblity on the Athlete Gabriel Evans for the use and possession of the prohibited substance Erythropoietin (EPO).
Hereafter in May 2016 the Athlete appealed the UKAD decision of 18 December 2015 with the National Anti-Doping Panel Arbitral Tribunal.
The Athlete requested the Panel for a reduced sanction and asserted that the violation was not intending to improve his performance in competition, he was experimenting, and was in any case taking it only during training. In relation to his degree of fault the Athlete mentioned the absence of any formal anti-doping training, his age, inexperience and immaturity. The Athlete also argued that the sanction effects his full participation in sporting activities at the university.
The Panel finds that notwithstanding the Athlete’s age at the time and relative inexperience, he was an intelligent and well-educated young man who committed a very serious ant-doping violation in circumstances in which he must have known that what he was doing was wrong at every imaginable level. Far from thinking that he has been dealt with harshly, the view of the Panel is that he has been dealt with leniently.
Therefore on 5 July 2016 the National Anti-Doping Panel Arbitral Tribunal decides to dismiss the Athlete’s appeal and to uphold the UKAD decision of 18 December 2015.
