Toon Aerts has delivered a statement on social media following his suspension from competition for two years by the UCI following a positive anti-doping test for the testosterone-boosting drug letrozole, with the Belgian cyclo-cross powerhouse adamant that he will return and prove that he is not a doper.
Aerts was initially provisionally suspended on February 16 2022, and was trying to prove that banned substance letrozole detected in his anti-doping test was from a contaminated food supplement. However, the UCI Anti-Doping Tribunal handed down its decision last week, delivering a two-year ban as “the Tribunal considered that Toon Aerts had failed to establish how the prohibited substance entered his body”.
