In January 2016 UK Anti-Doping (UKAD) has reported an anti-doping rule violation against the Athlete Kurt Clabby for evading or failing to submit to sample collection.
After notification a provisional suspension was ordered. The Athlete filed a statement in his defence and he waived his right to attend the hearing of the National Anti-Doping Panel.
The Athlete was selected at a training in December 2015 by UKAD to provide a sample for drug testing. Attempts were made to locate the Athlete and to contact him by phone but the Athlete failed to report to the doping control station and did not provide a sample.
The Athlete confirmed that he was present at the training and stated that he needed to leave the training immediately in order to fulfill his employment obligations. He had believed that he had not other option but to leave to attend to work and that he was not able to ignore or fail to comply with an instruction to attend the emergency call out.
The Tribunal concludes that the Athlete knew that he had been selected to provide a sample for testing; deliberately avoided the doping control station; and did so to evade being tested.
Without grounds to reduce the sanction the National Anti-Doping Panel decides on 20 December 2016 to impose a 4 year period of ineligibility on the Athlete starting on the date of the provisional suspension, i.e. on 28 January 2016.
