Banned British cyclist Dan Stevens has been named as the whistle-blower who sparked the Sunday Times investigation into the activities of Dr. Mark Bonar, Harley Street doctor who reportedly claimed he has assisted 150 athletes with performance enhancing drugs, including British Tour de France cyclists and football player from several Premier League clubs.
Stevens was banned for 21 months for refusing to provide an out-of-competition anti-doping test in 2014. An initial 24-month ban was reduced to 21 months by the UK Anti-Doping Agency (UKAD) after he supplied “valuable anti-doping information” to the UCI-funded Cycling Independent Reform Commission (CIRC). His ban ended on November 1, 2015.
The Daily Telegraph newspaper named Stevens as the source for the Sunday Times investigation, saying he contacted the newspaper when UKAD failed to act on his information. UKAD was apparently given two written prescriptions signed by Dr Bonar but failed to pursue the matter because he is not governed by a sporting body.
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They did not pass the information on to the General Medical Council, which controls doctors in the UK. The British minister for Culture and Sport John Whittingdale has ordered an inquiry into the taxpayer-funded anti-doping body and General Medical Council has now said it will investigate Dr. Bonar despite him not being registered to practice in Britain.
The Telegraph contacted Stevens on Sunday night but he said: “I'm sorry, I can't talk about this."
According to the Sunday Times, UKAD dismissed the athlete’s evidence as being of “little or no value” and said there were “no grounds for action to be taken against Dr Bonar”. The Daily Telegraph suggests that the evidence Stevens gave to CIRC was not related to Dr. Bonar.
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