Darts Regulation Authority said on Friday.<\/a><\/p>\nTaylor said he apologises for “blatant lying” and that he will be “back to prove himself”.<\/p>\n
The 27-year-old said his mental health had been affected by a series of personal traumas, including the anniversary of his daughter’s death.<\/p>\n
He was given a one-month suspension in January after failing a drugs test during the previous year.<\/p>\n
After defeating Lukasiak, Taylor said he had “rebounded back” and described the earlier suspension as “the biggest let down of my life”.<\/p>\n
On Facebook, Taylor wrote: “I need to apologise for blatant lying to you all in my interview after my win against Oskar last week, as I have been lying to myself and everyone else around me.<\/p>\n
“I did complete and finish the course that I was required to do at the end of last\/beginning of this year, along with everything else I was required to do and sanctions.”<\/p>\n
A potential two-year ban was reduced after he proved the substance was not performance-enhancing and was taken outside of competition, while also committing to completing a three-month treatment programme approved by UK Anti-Doping.<\/p>\n
Taylor had been due to play Jonny Clayton in the second round, with Clayton receiving a bye to the third round following Taylor’s suspension.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dom Taylor says he is “sincerely sorry” after a failed drugs test meant he was excluded from the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":203752,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-203751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}