[NMCycling] The smoothie

[Warsa, James S via Bike-racers]

A 60-year-old time triallist has been handed a four-year doping ban after testing positive for three banned substances, which he claimed had come from smoothies which his wife had secretly been “spiking” with supplements.

Stephen Costello, of Abbotsford Park Road Club, tested positive for 1,3-Dimethylbutylamine, Ostarine, and GW1516 after finishing in 95th place in the Stone Wheelers 25-mile time trial on May 20, 2017.

Despite claiming that the banned substances had come from supplements which his wife had secretly added to smoothies, Costello’s explanation was not accepted by the National Anti-Doping Panel, which issued him with a four-year ban to expire on June 15, 2021.

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