{"id":325111,"date":"2025-12-19T18:39:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T18:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/325111\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T18:39:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T18:39:07","slug":"dom-taylor-out-of-pdc-world-championship-after-adverse-analytical-finding-from-drugs-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/325111\/","title":{"rendered":"Dom Taylor out of PDC World Championship after “adverse analytical finding” from drugs test"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dom Taylor has been suspended from darts after a drug test produced an “adverse analytical finding”, meaning he will play no further part in the PDC World Championship.<\/p>\n

Englishman Taylor, who beat Oskar Lukasiak in the first round at Alexandra Palace, had been scheduled to face Jonny Clayton on Saturday but the Welsh fifth seed will now receive a bye through to the last 32.<\/p>\n

The Darts Regulation Authority (DRA) said it and Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) are conducting testing during the World Championship in line with “ongoing anti-doping procedures”.<\/p>\n

In a statement,, external<\/a> the DRA added: “On 19 December, the DRA was notified of an adverse analytical finding in respect of the player Dom Taylor resulting from a test conducted on 14 December.<\/p>\n

“As a result of this and in line with relevant DRA processes, Dom Taylor has been suspended from participating in any DRA regulated events with immediate effect.<\/p>\n

“This matter will now be the subject of a disciplinary process in line with the relevant DRA anti-doping rules.<\/p>\n

“The DRA will not be making any further comment pending the outcome of this confidential process.”<\/p>\n

Other than confirming that Clayton would go straight through to the third round, the PDC said it would not make any further comment.<\/p>\n

Taylor, 27, was ranked 65th in the world at the start of the tournament.<\/p>\n

He was given a one-month suspension in January<\/a> after failing a drugs test during the previous year.<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dom Taylor has been suspended from darts after a drug test produced an “adverse analytical finding”, meaning he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325112,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-325111","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\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}