New Zealand national road race champion Olivia Ray has admitted to taking banned substances
Ray was dropped by team Human Powered Health earlier this year and is waiting for US Anti Doping Agency’s final decision on a ban - which if imposed will last four years.
It was only in February this year when Ray won the NZ women’s road racing champion title and in early March, she was quietly removed from the roster of her team, Human Powered Health. No official comments on Ray’s departure from the team were made, butRay told that soon after the championships, she had received an email from the team lawyer with copies of the texts she had sent to her then-boyfriend, Jackson Huntley Nash, discussing drug side effects. The team then cut ties with her.
These photos were taken for the later dismissed court case in which Nash was accusing his ex-girlfriend, Madeline Pearce, another cyclist, of stalking. The fact that Ray lived with Nash at the time the photographs had been taken, coupled with a screenshot of a message on Ray’s phone talking about the side effects of her Clenbuterol usage led to the investigation into her substance use.
Ray has now been banned from racing since March, and the final length of this ban is not yet clear. She told the NZ Herald that the USADA decision allowed her to restart her career in the not-too-distant future, she would like to remain in New Zealand and focus on track races, as opposed to road course racing.
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