WADA launch investigation into UKAD after British Cycling were allowed to conduct own doping inquiry

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The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has formally started an investigation into UK-Anti Doping (UKAD) after news emerged that a British Cycling rider returned a sample that had traces of the steroid nandrolone in late 2010 and that British Cycling were allowed to conduct their own internal investigation into the matter.

In an extensive report from the Mail on Sunday, UKAD are understood to have told British Cycling that one of their riders’ samples contained the threshold substance nandrolone, due to what could have been a health issue or a contaminated supplement. The amount of a threshold substance found in a sample needs to be above a certain level, or threshold, to trigger action by an anti-doping organisation.

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Daniel Benson

Daniel Benson was the Editor in Chief at Cyclingnews.com between 2008 and 2022. Based in the UK, he joined the Cyclingnews team in 2008 as the site's first UK-based Managing Editor. In that time, he reported on over a dozen editions of the Tour de France, several World Championships, the Tour Down Under, Spring Classics, and the London 2012 Olympic Games. With the help of the excellent editorial team, he ran the coverage on Cyclingnews and has interviewed leading figures in the sport including UCI Presidents and Tour de France winners.