Van Eetvelt returns to racing but remains 'indignant' over nasal spray case
'I still don’t know what the problem was' say🐲s Bel🐎gian youngster

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lennert Van Eetvelt (Lotto-Dstny) returns to racing this Wednesday in the Alpes-Isère Tour but the young Belgian climber says he has still not been clearly informed as to how a nasal spray - which he'd reported he used during an anti-doping test this February - could end up with him being 💖briefly placed on non-active status.
"I am ha♔ppy to be able to race again, but also still indignant about how my process went," Van Ee꧃tvelt told Belgian newspaper on Wednesday.
On April 22, Van Eetvelt was briefly placed on non-activꩵe racing status after the AFLD, the French anti-doping authority, queried his use of the spray during the Tour des Alpes Maritimes et du Var this February, in which the 21-year-old neo-pro had finished 18th.
However, he was rapidly aཧcquitted of any potentia✨l wrongdoing and is now back in racing.
Van Eetvelt told Het Laatste Nieuws he remained uncertain as to why the spꦰray, which he had clearly notified the authorities he was using, was ever t🏅he subject of full investigation.
"The French doping authority AFLD asked questions about a substance found in my body. There are four categories: substances that are not allowed, substances that are permitted, substances that are only allowed in certain products, and substances that are always allowed. The substance that was in my body belongs to the third category," Van Eetvelt said.
He told the paper he had notified the authorities during the anti-doping procedure that he used a nasal spray, as is permitted - while taking it in pill-form or via an injection is banned - to take the substance, whichꩲ remains unnamed.
He also said th💦e amount found was "minimal", and therefore could not have been anything other than a spray.
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"I've been taking that nasal spray🌊 for a long time. It helps against allergies and since childhood I have high allergy values,🀅" he said. "I still don't understand what the problem was. But I worry it could happen in the future, so I won't be using that nasal spray again."
Last year, Van Eetvelt won the Course de la Paix🎀 and finished runner-up at the U23 Lièg🔯e-Bastogne-Liège and Giro d'Italia. Prior to the Tour des Alpes Maritimes et du Var, he'd raced three days of the Challenge Mallorca, taking second and third, the Vuelta a Murcia, and the Clásica Jaén Paraíso Interior.
Van Eetvelt received the full support of his team during the whole process, who said in a press release when the case broke that placing Van Eetvelt on non-active status was a measure taken in compliance with the guidelines of the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Mouvement Pou𒐪r Un Cyclisme Crédible association, wh꧑ich the team joined in November 2012.
After taking part in the five-day Alpes-Is&egrav♑e;re event this week, Van Eetvelt is due to go on to race in the Tour de Suisse later this year.
"I got a lot of support, but I didn't check social media and headed to Tenerife to escape the fuss and do altitude training while it was happening," he told Het Laatste Nieuws. "Although I hav🌊en't been able to raওce for a month, my level must be good and I’m hoping to perform well in the Alpes-Isère Tour."
Alasdair Fotheringham has been reporting on cycling since 1991. He has covered every Tour de France since 1992 bar one, as well as numerous other bike races of all shapes and sizes, ranging from the Olympic Games in 2008 to the now sadly defunct Subida a Urkiola hill climb in Spain. As well as working for Cyclingnews, he has also written for The Independent, The Guardian, ProCycling, The Express and Reuters.