David George (cyclist)

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David Harold George (born February 23, 1976 in Cape Town ) is a former South African cyclist .

Athletic career

David George finished third in the U23 time trial at the 1997 World Road Championships in San Sebastian . A year later he won the time trial of the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur also the bronze medal. He then got a professional contract with the US cycling team US Postal Service for the following season and became a teammate of Lance Armstrong . Since he could not achieve good results there, he switched to Tacconi Sport after two years . In 2002 he was third in the overall ranking of the Tour de Langkawi with CCC Polsat . In 2003 he switched to Team Barloworld and won the Giro del Capo in his home country. The following year he was able to repeat this success and was South African road champion. In 2006 George drove for the Spanish UCI Professional Continental Team Relax-GAM . At the beginning of the season he decided the Tour de Langkawi for himself. He later won the silver medal in the time trial at the Commonwealth Games and the South African time trial championship. He repeated his victory in the time trial championship the following year. In 2008 he switched to Team MTN , a South African Continental team, and achieved a stage win at the Giro del Capo . Since the 2009 season he has been driving for smaller teams without registering with the UCI World Cycling Federation .

Three times - in 1996 , 2000 and 2008 - George competed in various cycling disciplines at the Olympic Games. He achieved his best placement in 1996 when he finished 15th in the single pursuit on the track .

After George had previously suspicious of the values ​​collected in the biological passport , a targeted doping control was carried out on August 29, 2012 , which was positive for the doping agent erythropoietin . Thereupon he was suspended from the South African Association and in early December 2012 was given a two-year ban. As a result, David George was available to the South African anti-doping authority SA Institute for Drug-Free Sport (Saids) for educational discussions and spoke out publicly against doping.

successes

2002

2003

2004

2006

2007

  • South AfricaSouth Africa South African champion - individual time trial

2008

Teams

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Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ South African David George positive about EPO. radsport-news.com, November 6, 2012, accessed August 6, 2014 .
  2. ↑ David George handed two year ban as a result of EPO positive. December 5, 2012, accessed August 6, 2014 .
  3. ↑ Jonathan Ancer: Drug cheat helping anti-doping body. iol sport, March 4, 2013, accessed August 6, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME George, David
ALTERNATIVE NAMES George, David Harold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South African racing cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Cape Town