Former Rabobank and Team Sky doctor Geert Leinders banned for life for doping violations
Posted Jan 22, 2015 10:06:15 AM.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency says former Rabobank cycling team doctor Geert Leinders has been banned for life for multiple doping violations.
The Belgian doctor was banned for violations committed while he was working with Rabobank between 1996 and 2009, before he joined Team Sky.
USADA says a three-member American Arbitration Association panel found that Leinders “possessed, trafficked, and administered banned performance-enhancing substances and methods without any legitimate medical need … to athletes under his care, and was complicit in other anti-doping rule violations.”
USADA said Leinders was involved in doping with EPO, blood transfusions, testosterone, insulin, DHEA and corticosteroids.
The case was based on evidence discovered by USADA in 2012 during its investigation of doping in cycling.
Leinders was hired by Sky in 2011 and 2012 on a freelance basis but has left the team.
