Cycling-Teenage British junior champion admits EPO doping (Reuters)
Fears that the use of performance-enhancing drugs in amateur cycling are on the rise increased with a confession by a British junior national champion to having used the banned blood booster EPO. Eighteen year-old Gabriel Evans said in a statement on a time-trialling website (www.timetriallingforum.co.uk) and an interview with Cycling Weekly magazine that he had been tempted to dope after losing the national 25-mile time trial title in August and having watched a BBC documentary on doping. On 3 August 2015 I bought EPO for the first time,” he wrote.