VIENNA (AP) — Austria’s anti-doping agency has banned cyclist Michael Knopf for four years for supplying other riders with banned substances.
NADA says there was “not sufficient” evidence that Knopf purchased or used forbidden drugs.
Knopf, who can appeal the ban in court, and his KTM teammates Hannes Gruendlinger and Josef Kugler were barred from last year’s Tour of Austria after NADA opened proceedings against them for alleged infringements over the past five years.
Earlier, NADA banned Gruendlinger for six years for buying, possessing, selling and using doping products, while Kugler received a two-year suspension for attempted blood doping.
