After ten months of dopingkarantæne brightens it now for the Danish cykeltalent Mattias Skjelmose Jensen, who has received a new contract from the new year with the Leopard Pro Cycling from Luxembourg.
The 19-year-old dane, who is seen as a big etapeløbs-talent, was a little over a year ago sentenced to ten months ‘ quarantine by The International Cykelunion (UCI) for breaching anti-doping rules.
It came to pass, because he 26. in may last year delivered a dopingprøve under etapeløbet Tour dy the Pays de Vaud, with traces of the substance methylhexanamin, there is a performance-enhancer.
Since both the a – and b-sample showed traces of the substance, selected the UCI, in consultation with the anti-doping-agency WADA to grant him ten-month quarantine. A judgment, as he was very upset, because he thought that he inadvertently had to have scored the drug from the supplements he has used.
– I will be a part of one of the best development team in the world, and hopefully this will develop me as a rider. The team has a very solid set up and is a perfect and safe environment for young riders, he says, according to cykelholdets website.
I learned a lot last year. I have had some very difficult moments, and I would like to advise all young riders to never have to take supplements such as multivitamins, if they are not 100% sure on what it is, he continues.
– I am very lucky to have people around me who believe in me, and now I would like to pay back. I will do well in the big races such as the Tour de l’avenir and the WORLD,, says Mattias Skjelmose Jensen.
the Team manager Markus Zingen tell honestly that one had doubts.
We hesitated in the beginning because we could not ignore his karantænedom. We have taken our time to take the decision with the gathering of opinions and background knowledge, and now it’s important to put the history behind us and focus on the upcoming season.
Before his quarantine, he won in the Danish landsholdstrikot the Tour de Pays de Vaud, there is a total of seven stage races on the UCI calendar, but the result was at the behest of the UCI has been canceled.
Although the normal penalty for such an offence is two years in quarantine, has UCI in the judgment laid emphasis on the fact that Mattias Skjelmose Jensen at that time was not of legal age, and that he has admitted his guilt. Therefore he got the penalty-setting-up and was back in the saddle this summer.
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