‘I don’t have the strength or money for this’ - Shari Bossuyt surrenders Olympic dream after anti-doping positive

Bossuyt likely to be banned for two years for previous letrozole positive, but maintains her innocence

Shari Bossuyt
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Belgian rider Shari Bossuyt has said she will not appeal the likely two-year suspension she is facing after she returned a positive anti-doping test result for letrozole last year.

In a statement shared on X, Bossuyt explained she has the opportunity to appeal, but will not be doing so. “I simply don’t have the strength or the money for this,” she wrote. 

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Tom Thewlis
News and Features Writer

After previously working in higher education, Tom joined Cycling Weekly in 2022 and hasn't looked back. He's been covering professional cycling ever since; reporting on the ground from some of the sport's biggest races and events, including the Tour de France, Paris-Roubaix and the World Championships. His earliest memory of a bike race is watching the Tour on holiday in the early 2000's in the south of France - he even made it on to the podium in Pau afterwards. His favourite place that cycling has taken him is Montréal in Canada.