{"id":946829,"date":"2026-10-30T21:30:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T21:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/946829\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T21:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T21:30:11","slug":"french-para-cyclist-suspended-in-epo-doping-case-at-worlds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/946829\/","title":{"rendered":"French Para-Cyclist Suspended in EPO Doping Case at Worlds"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thomas Peyroton-Dartet, 41, tested positive for EPO two days before winning a para-cycling world title. He is now provisionally suspended.<\/p>\n

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France’s Thomas Peyroton-Dartet has been suspended for EPO, the ITA reported. (Photo: Andrew Matthews\/PA Images via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Published October 30, 2026 02:09PM<\/p>\n

French para-cyclist Thomas Peyroton-Dartet has been provisionally suspended after testing positive for EPO<\/a> at September\u2019s world championships in Huntsville, Alabama, the International Testing Agency<\/a> announced Thursday.<\/p>\n

Peyroton-Dartet \u2014 a C3 category athlete \u2014 is provisionally suspended while the case proceeds. No final sanction has been announced.<\/p>\n

The finding came from a sample collected September 5 during the UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships. The ITA, which runs the UCI\u2019s independent anti-doping program<\/a>, is handling the case<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Just two days later, he won gold in the C3 road race ahead of a pair of chasing Spanish riders.<\/p>\n

Peyroton-Dartet, 41, also won gold in the C3 time trial and silver in the C1-3 road race in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.<\/p>\n

EPO needs little introduction for cycling fans.<\/p>\n

It stimulates red blood cell production, increasing the oxygen available to working muscles and boosting endurance. This is not the first time that EPO has been detected in para-cycling.<\/p>\n

Poland\u2019s Marcin Polak received a four-year ban in 2022 after three samples collected in 2021 tested positive. His results during the affected period were wiped out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thomas Peyroton-Dartet, 41, tested positive for EPO two days before winning a para-cycling world title. He is now…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":946830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,214038,63,784,73253,85,150208,238893,514310,501105,251187,67883],"class_list":["post-946829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-au","tag-audio-true","tag-australia","tag-cycling","tag-parent_category-news","tag-sports","tag-tag-anti-doping","tag-tag-doping","tag-tag-epo","tag-tag-international-testing-agency","tag-tag-olympic-games","tag-type-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=946829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/946830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=946829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=946829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=946829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}