Lizzy Banks

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[Lizzy Banks @ElizzyBanks]

I have some news. I’ve been offline for a really long time now. I’m afraid the reason isn’t a very nice one & too complicated to explain on social media so I have written everything up and put it on a website. Please head to https://t.co/3kaV1vD1y3 to read the full story. 1/4

[Lizzy Banks @ElizzyBanks]

After 2 tortuous years, I finally have a result from the Court of Arbitration for Sport. Please go to my website, https://t.co/3kaV1vCtIv to read my write up of the last 15 months of my life. I can walk away with my head high and start the process of rebuilding my life & career.

[Lizzy Banks @ElizzyBanks]

As for me, I am still waiting for the outcome from the Court of Arbitration for Sport. It is 2 months since the tribunal & the result may be another week yet. That will be 19 months to the day since notification. I only hope the destruction it caused will be worth something.

[Lizzy Banks @ElizzyBanks]

The irony here is that in the greater sporting world I had considerable means&perhaps a little status to enable me to fight thoroughly. The vast majority of "normal athletes" live on the breadline. The biggest problem is WADA's win at all costs mentality and culture (cont)

[Daniel Friebe @friebos]

Pretty clear based on evidence that a) Sinner had no intention of cheating & b) he gained no advantage. Sport loses if athletes in this position are sacrificed on altar of antidoping…& yet many without his means/status, like @elizzybanks, have been. https://t.co/m7uotp4hZh

[Lizzy Banks @ElizzyBanks]

If you look at the evidence then you really will understand that everything is everywhere and minute quantities of stuff you never knew where there both can, and will, be found. (Cont)

[Lizzy Banks @ElizzyBanks]

Thanks @girowomen for the nice memory 🥹 177.5km (incl. neutral) according to my Garmin after almost 100km in a 2up break with @EugeniaBujak . Also won the longest stage of the 2019 Giro 🍾 Very sad not to be there again but I have amazing memories of one of my favourite races 🩷

[Giro d'Italia Women @girowomen]

Today’s stage is one of the longest in Giro d’Italia Women’s history: @ElizzyBanks won one of very few longer ones (Tivoli, 2020)

La tappa di oggi è una delle più lunghe nella storia del #GirodItaliaWomen: Lizzie Banks ne vinse una ancora più lunga (Tivoli, ‘20)

📸 F. Ossola

[Lizzy Banks @ElizzyBanks]

Please read my website for more information

https://t.co/3kaV1vCtIv

There is so much to say and so much more information where that came from which I will publish in due course.

7/7 . END

On another note I am off to celebrate my best friend's wedding and forget about WADA...

[Lizzy Banks @ElizzyBanks]

THIS. IS. MENTAL.

If Visma LAB's statement referencing the NADA opinion is accurate then we have a serious problem.

Here's why:

This directly contravenes an athlete's human rights

Athletes have NEVER been educated about the risks of contaminated medication.

Continued... 1/7

[Team Visma | Lease a Bike @vismaleaseabike]

Statement Team Visma | Lease a Bike after ruling in Michel Hessmann case: https://t.co/oFtE0hQACR

[Lizzy Banks @ElizzyBanks]

I am continuing to fight my own case at the Court of Arbitration for Sport against WADA, who have appealed UKAD's decision that I am at no fault. WADA state I should have a 2 year ban and my results should be stripped. They have not yet given their grounds for this appeal.

6/7

[Lizzy Banks @ElizzyBanks]

@ebrunner0 No, but don't tell them that!!

[Lizzy Banks @ElizzyBanks]

WADA have appealed. I don't know the basis for their appeal, they haven't stated one. They maintain that I should have a 2 year ban & that my results should be taken away. It is both deeply disappointing yet at the same time remarkably unsurprising. 1/5

https://t.co/3kaV1vD1y3

[Lizzy Banks @ElizzyBanks]

@coops456 Thanks Gill ❤️ I was going through all the replies earlier, @coops456 , and some people are so uninformed that really the only thing you can do is laugh and try to remember that there are lots of wonderful people in the world but there will *always* be a handful of idiots!

[Lizzy Banks @ElizzyBanks]

@ebrunner0 Ah yes. Delia has the same problem. She barely eats and still is round as a barrel, although to be fair, she also hardly moves 🤦🏼‍♀️

[Lizzy Banks @ElizzyBanks]

@StevoLaughton @tomcary_tel Thank you so much. I actually have some much lovelier woodworking news coming soon thanks to all the incredibly kind contributions 😊😊

[Lizzy Banks @ElizzyBanks]

More details about WADA's appeal in this piece by @tomcary_tel . Unfortunately this appeal is a grand waste of public money. I am determined that meaningful change will come as a result of this.

https://t.co/6IQaN3z0N6

[Tom Cary @tomcary_tel]

Exclusive: have spoken to Lizzy Banks, who has revealed Wada is appealing Ukad's ruling in her year-long case. She describes process as 'ridiculous' and says she's 'more determined than ever to get them to change rules' https://t.co/kDvRzQOqWY

[Lizzy Banks @ElizzyBanks]

@ebrunner0 Oh HELLO! What a beauty 😻😻😻