Paulding gains title as Lynch ban is upheld
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Your support makes all the difference.The Welshman Steve Paulding became British keirin champion yesterday - five weeks after the race in Manchester - when an appeals panel stripped the South African Shawn Lynch of the title, writes Robin Nicholl.
They upheld a 12-month suspension imposed on Lynch last month for a doping offence but changed the date from which it started. The ban originally began from the hearing on August 5, but the panel back-dated it to June 4, the date of the offence.
Lynch, who had qualified for a British racing licence through his British- born father, failed a drug test after his sample exceeded the permitted ratio of testosterone to epitestosterone.
Paulding was awarded gold in the event, in which riders jockey for position behind a pacing motorcycle before a final sprint for the line.
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