David Millar received a two-year ban from cycling today after admitting to doping offences. The Scot was also stripped of his 2003 world time trial title and fined approximately £900 for taking banned drug EPO.
Millar won the title last October but on July 1 privately confessed to judge Richard Pallain that he had used the drug. An independent disciplinary panel sitting for British Cycling considered information from a number of sources and also questioned Millar before finding him guilty of intentional doping.
The panel were allowed to consider factors surrounding the offences before deciding on an appropriate punishment and also disqualified him from the 2003 Dauphine Libere Stage race and the 2001 Tour of Spain.
The disgraced cyclist has no right of appeal to British Cycling, but may appeal independently to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
Filed by Mark O'Neill-Cummins
