FILE–Ariana Evangelista–PHILCYCLING PHOTO
Philcycling (Built-in Biking Federation of the Philippines) on Thursday expressed its full backing of Ariana Evangelista after the feminine mountain biker failed a doping check through the Hangzhou Asian Video games.
The nation’s biking federation stated in a press release that it was “unlucky” that Evangelista was handed a provisional suspension after she examined constructive for erythropoietin (EPO), a banned performance-enhancing substance.
“It’s unlucky that considered one of our best riders in MTB, Ariana Evangelista, is PROVISIONALLY suspended for Adversarial Analytical Findings or AAFs,” Philcycling stated after the outcomes had been launched by the Worldwide Testing Company.
“The PhilCycling Federation would lengthen all of the help essential to our athlete that go inside the bounds of laws of the WADA Unbiased Observers, WADA, NADO-Philippines, Olympic Council of Asia and Union Cycliste Internationale.
Assertion of Built-in Biking Federation of the Philippines, Inc. (PhilCycling) on Athlete Ariana EvangelistaIt is…
Posted by PHILCYCLING on Thursday, October 5, 2023
“Philcycling, like all nationwide federations beneath the wings of the Philippine Olympic Committee, will at all times be in help of its athletes and on the identical stage promote with vigor truthful play in our sport always whereas condemning using unlawful substances/doping.”
Philcycling additionally requested the general public “to not render their very own judgment till after the ultimate consequence has been rendered.”
Evangelista competed a day after the check which occurred on Sept. 25 and positioned thirteenth within the girls’s cross-country Olympic mountain bike occasion.
She was considered one of three athletes within the final 24 hours who failed a doping check on the continental meet, becoming a member of Uzbekistan bicycle owner Aleksey Fomovskiy and runner Mohammad Yousif Alasiri of Saudi Arabia.
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