Matthias Flückiger has been exonerated of any anti-doping rule violations referring to an adversarial analytical outcome from 2022.
The Swiss rider examined constructive for traces of zeranol on June 5, 2022 simply earlier than successful the World Cup in Leogang.
Following the outcome, Flückiger was provisionally suspended, lacking the European and World Championships and the ultimate World Cup spherical in 2022.
Four months later, Swiss Olympic lifted the ban, ruling that the discovering ought to have been categorised as ‘atypical’ relatively than constructive as the quantity in his pattern was under the detection threshold and shouldn’t have triggered a provisional suspension.
“It is an intermediate success in direction of justice and fact,” Flückiger wrote on Instagram after the suspension was lifted.
“But sadly the case shouldn’t be but closed. The fixed uncertainty, the months of ready, the unfounded accusations should lastly come to an finish.
“I thank all those that have supported me on this extraordinarily tough time and all those that haven’t prejudged me!”
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Zeranol is banned by WADA beneath the category anabolic steroids however shouldn’t be accredited to be used in people, relatively it’s a veterinary drug used as a progress promoter in livestock.
Flückiger was capable of persuade the Swiss anti-doping authorities that his doping check outcome may have moderately come from meals contamination via hair evaluation and a standard steroid profile in his Athlete Biological Passport (ABP). Doping controls taken six days earlier than and 5 days after confirmed no traces of the drug.
While the 35-year-old was allowed to proceed competing, he was not totally cleared of any anti-doping rule violations till Friday.
The ruling opens the door for Flückiger to return to the Olympic Games after taking the silver medal behind Tom Pidcock in Tokyo.
Both riders will compete within the World Cup in Nove Mesto this weekend.