Insidethegames.com (opens in new tab) reports that former junior women's time trial world champion Aigle Galeeva of Russia has been provisionally suspended after missing three anti-doping whereabouts tests in the past 12 months.

Irakli Abrahamyan, Russia's national cycling coach, told Russia's state news agency TASS (TASS) that Galeeva's provisional suspension was due to her failure to attend anti-doping tests.

"Aigla was suspended for three flags. She missed three doping tests in one year," Abrahamyan said, according to an Insidethegames.com report published last Wednesday.

"She was not found to have doped and Galiyeva was suspended for another violation for carelessness. [Her case] will be heard shortly. After that, her punishment will be determined. I hope that Aigle will be disqualified for a minimal period of time. We always remind our athletes to be responsible for providing information about their whereabouts, but we can't do it every day, and we can't fill in everything for them.

"We remember her and we train her. Unfortunately, during the period of her suspension, Galeeva has been stripped of her right to compete."

Galeeva, 22, won the junior women's road race at the 2018 European Championships. She emerged victorious in the junior women's time trial at the 2019 UCI Road World Championships in Yorkshire.

She then signed a contract with the UCI Continental women's team, the Cogeas Mettler Pro Cycling Team, and raced for them in 2020 and 2021. However, Galiyeva has not competed since finishing fourth in the road race and time trial at the Russian Championships last June.

According to TASS, Gabella has been provisionally suspended from competition since September 17, 2021. However, he is not included in the UCI's list of provisionally suspended athletes, which was updated on December 23, 2021.

The Cogeas Mettler Pro Cycling team received a higher license for the Women's World Team starting in 2022, but Gavella is no longer on that roster and has not signed with any other programs this year.

Cyclingnews contacted the team's management to ask if they were aware of Gavera's whereabouts test last year. A team representative told Cyclingnews that Gareeva's provisional suspension came as a surprise and that they were unaware of her three whereabouts-unspecified tests.

The UCI's governing board transferred anti-doping activities from the Cycling Anti-Doping Foundation in 2021 to the International Testing Agency (ITA), a multisport independent organization established in 2018 The ITA states that athletes are responsible for providing accurate and up-to-date whereabouts information It states.

"Riders are required to provide complete and accurate whereabouts information for each day of the quarter so that any Anti-Doping Organization (ADO) can locate the rider for testing."

"The timeframe shall include, but not be limited to, a 60-minute timeframe period.

The ITA states that three missed anti-doping whereabouts tests will result in a suspension of 12 to 24 months.