The significant improvement in her results did not really raise many eyebrows but the positive test for an anabolic steroid led most to link the two together and view the rider as guilty.
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Betsema also thanked her fitness professional husband Sjoerd Maarten for helping her with her diet to lose weight.
In her only World Cup race in 2017-18 she finished 25th, but in November 2018 she won the Koksijde World Cup and was second at Pont-Chateau on 20th January 2019.īetsema rose from 83rd in the world rankings at the beginning of the 2018-19 season to third by the end and she suggested that her improvement was, in no small part, due to the intentional weight loss of 8 kilograms. For cases such as contaminated products, the UCI rules allow for punishment anywhere from a reprimand to two years suspension "depending on the Rider's degree of Fault" (10.5.1.2)."īetsema had a standout 2018-19 season - she was seventh in the Dutch Championship and ninth in 2017-18 while twelve months later she finished fourth and third respectively. It's understood that the UCI independently tested the supplement batch and confirmed the presence of contamination and determined that she did not intentionally dope.Ĭycling News: "Although the minimum sanction for a positive steroid test would typically be four years, the UCI anti-doping rules provide for reduced bans for unintentional anti-doping rule violations (10.2.1.1). Maeschalck added that they successfully demonstrated that "there was no intention to dope" and that the UCI had accepted their defense on January 17, 2020. That's why I had all my dietary supplements examined." I had to prove that I had never consciously taken doping. I was assisted by doping expert Douwe de Boer and lawyer Johnny Maeschalck. The resolution is subject to appeal by the National Anti-Doping Organisation of the Netherlands and the World Anti-Doping Agency."īetsema and her lawyer have blamed a Belgian pharmacist and argued that the positive results were due to a contaminated supplement product.īetsema told the press conference on Tuesday, "My world was upside down.
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Retired US racer Ryan Trebon called it "slap in the face of every hard working, rule abiding athlete."Īccording to the UCI press release, "The case was resolved by acceptance of consequences in accordance with the World Anti-Doping Code and the UCI Anti-Doping Regulations. "This is such bullshit, a rider tests positive TWICE for anabolic steroids & she gets a 6month off-season ban? lets clean athletes down yet again," Compton posted on social media. "Bullshit" was former World Cup winner Katie Compton's reaction to both the leniency of the ban and the fact that it had been backdated through the off-season. To add to the initial controversy, it was only this week that the UCI announced Betsema had been handed a six-month ban and because they had backdated it she was now clear to race (the UCI stated that Betsema's suspension started on Apand ended on October 4, 2019). And - above all - that I never intended to use doping," Betsema told a press conference on Tuesday. "It has been proven in black and white that a contaminated supplement was at the basis of the deviating values of my test. The 26-year-old Dutchwoman has always maintained her innocence since a doping control sample taken at the Hoogerheide World Cup on Janu(where Betsema finished seventh) tested positive as did another sample taken in February 2019. Betsema finished fourth in last season's Worlds in Denmark. The Dutch team will be selected on Sunday evening. "I have been in regular contact with her and she has always maintained her innocence," De Knegt told NOS.
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She will return in the colours, and with the full support, of the Pauwels Sauzen-Bingoal team.ĭutch team manager Gerben de Knegt said he will consider Betsema for World Championship selection dependent on her result tomorrow. DENISE Betsema returns to racing at Zonnebeke in West Flanders on Saturday (25th January) after serving a backdated six-month doping ban, but her unexpected presence at the C2-ranked Kasteelcross has caused consternation from many within the cyclocross community.
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