Katie Compton, the 15-time US cyclocross champion who won silver at the Worlds four times, has been banned from competition for four years after an adverse dope test result.
USADA said she had “tested positive for an anabolic agent
as the result of an out-of-competition drug test on September 16th” last year.
Her sample was initially declared to have passed the test but after a bio passport flag the sample was re-analysed via carbon isotope ratio testing.
That form of testing is aimed at differentiating between anabolic agents that are banned and anabolic androgenic steroids that occur naturally in the body. The test result concluded banned anabolic agents were found and so a four-year ban has been imposed.
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For her part, Compton (42) has declared her innocence and said her efforts to find out how a banned substance got into her body without her knowledge were not successful
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“In early February of 2021, after returning from a difficult race season, I learned that the same sample from September was re-analyzed due to a bio-passport irregularity and found to be positive for an exogenous anabolic steroid,” she said.
Compton added the news was “devastating” to her and claimed she had always raced clean and would never take drugs. While she retired in March she said she decided to defend herself and try to get to the bottom of what "allegedly got into my body".
“I hired a lawyer and did my best to investigate how the substance got into my system but was unsuccessful in finding that answer,” she said in a statement.
“Over the past six months, I learned that I cannot prove that I didn’t intentionally take anything, and I can’t afford to keep fighting knowing the outcome will be the same regardless.”
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