The file Franck Bonnamour seemed almost completed since the end of 2024, it is now definitively so with this press release from the International Cycling Union (UCI). Suspected of doping and provisionally suspended since early February 2024 by the international body For anomalies in his biological passport in 2022, the former French runner was confirmed his suspension this Thursday, August 21. The anti -doping court of theUCI confirmed that “The latter had committed a violation of the anti-doping rules (TRAD) for the use of a prohibited substance or a prohibited method due to an anomaly not expressed in its biological passport of the athlete“. Super-combatives of Tour de France 2021 was therefore seen imposes a period of suspension of four years, started on February 5, 2024 and which will remain in force until February 4, 2028. A decision without real consequences since Breton 30 years old, licensed with immediate effect by his team Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale At the end of March, had then already retired in November, throwing in the towel aNear long and too expensive months of procedure to defend themselves.
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It is therefore in Australia, on a 54th place in Santos Tour Down Under In January 2024, that his good career ended prematurely. The former team runner B&B Hôtels-KTM of Jérôme Pineau had notably went to seek the title of “super-combative“On the Tour de France 2021. Winner of the Polynormande In 2022, Franck Bonnamour had then managed to relaunch after the fiasco B&B Hôtels-KTM By joining the team AG2R – Citroën In January 2023, which has since become Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale. But the end was therefore not hoped for …
The reason that prompted the native of Lannion to throw in the towel and accept the sanction of theUCI is simple: aAlmost long months of procedure, He no longer had the means to continue to defend, as he explained to Ouest-France In an article released this Thursday evening. “”It's too expensive in financial terms, I stop“, He made the bitter observation, he who has already lost an apartment in history.”I cannot afford to lose everything and it blocks financially. It's hard for six months, I didn't want it to last two years, three years like that. My priority is to keep a family balance. Morally, there are difficult times, I am supported by my family and I am also psychologically followed. I'm afraid of the future. I know what I did, what I didn't do“, he concluded.
The complete declaration of the UCI about Franck Bonnamour
The International Cycling Union (UCI) announces that the UCI anti -doping court has issued a decision against the French runner Franck Bonnamour. The court estimated that the latter had committed a violation of the anti-doping rules (VRAD) for the use of a prohibited substance or a prohibited method due to an anomaly not expressed in its biological passport of the athlete
In 2022. Consequently, the court imposed a period of suspension of four years.
The suspension period began on February 5, 2024 and will remain in force until February 4, 2028, in application of the World Anti -Doping Code and the UCI anti -doping regulations. In addition, in accordance with the regulation of procedure of the anti -doping court, the decision will be published on the UCI website. The decision may be the subject of an appeal to the Sports Arbitral Tribunal (CAS) within one month. The UCI will not make other comments on this case.
The biological passport of the athlete (PBA) is an individual electronic file specific to each runner, in which are recorded the results of all the anti -doping controls carried out as part of the PBA program over a given period. The International Testing Agency (ITA), the independent entity to which the UCI has delegated its anti -doping program while retaining the management of results and the continuation of the violations of the anti -doping rules, ensures the management of the PBA program in collaboration with the management unit of the biological passport of the athlete (UGPBA) in Lausanne, in Switzerland (the UGPBA of Lausanne is associated with the Lausanne laboratory, by the World Anti -Doping Agency). Biological passport cases are continued on the basis of the advice of a panel of independent UGPBA experts.
