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Tom Davidson

'I'm looking forward, not back anymore' - rider returns from two-year anti-doping ban to race Tour de France Femmes

Shari Bossuyt riding a time trial.

No rider has been counting down the days to this year’s Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift as closely as Shari Bossuyt. After serving a two-year suspension, the Belgian has now been allowed to return to the peloton, and is making a long-awaited “dream” debut.

Bossuyt’s career was upended in March 2023, when she returned a positive result for the banned hormone Letrozole in an anti-doping control. She has maintained her innocence ever since, and the French anti-doping agency concluded she had not intentionally taken the substance.

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