British hammer thrower Mark Dry has been provisionally suspended from competing after being charged with tampering with a doping control.
Dry competed for Britain at the last Olympics and is a two-time Commonwealth Games medallist in the event but has been banned from further competition while the investigation is ongoing.
In a statement, UK Athletics said that, “athlete Mark Dry has been provisionally suspended from participating in athletics after being charged with having committed an anti-doping violation contrary to IAAF anti-doping rule article 2.5”.
The IAAF rule states it is for an offence involving the “tampering or attempted tampering with any part of doping control conduct which subverts the doping control process” which includes “intentionally interfering or attempting to interfere with a doping control official, providing fraudulent information to an anti-doping organisation or intimidating or attempting to intimidate a potential witness”.
The provisional suspension was issued this morning and UK Athletics said that Dry “now has the opportunity to respond to the charge against him including the right to a full hearing of the case”.
