Robert Stannard has signed for Bahrain Victorious with immediate effect after accepting a backdated four-year suspension for an anti-doping rule violation, it was announced this week.
The Australian will ride the Tour of Britain for his new team, after he was penalised by the UCI's Anti-Doping Tribunal for use of a prohibited substance or a prohibited method, due to unexplained abnormalities in his Biological Passport in 2018 and 2019. As well as the four-year suspension, he was fined 70% of his average annual salary in the years 2018 and 2019.
