(Reuters) – British long-distance runner Luke Traynor has been handed a two-year suspension from all sport for a doping violation, the UK Anti-Doping agency (UKAD) said yesterday.
The 26-year-old had tested positive for a metabolite of cocaine, a substance banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), during an in-competition urine test last May, UKAD said in a statement.
Traynor, who represented Britain at the World Cross-Country Championships in 2019, had previously apologised, admitting he had taken the substance socially and not to enhance performance.
“I am sorry to my family, friends, coaches sponsors… I want to make it completely clear that my violation was in no relation to sport or enhancing performance,” Traynor said last year.
Traynor is ineligible to compete until May 2021.
