Dom Taylor has been given a six-month suspension for failing a medicine take a look at in the course of the PDC World Championship in December.
A press release from the Darts Regulation Authority confirmed that the 27-year-old had admitted breaching anti-doping guidelines.
At a listening to on 7 January, the DRA Disciplinary Committee mentioned it was “glad that Taylor’s ingestion of each cocaine and hashish occurred out of competitors and was not following the graduation of the World Championship”.
Taylor had beforehand served a one-month ban following a failed medicine take a look at in the direction of the top of 2024 and the sanction for his second offence is in step with UK Anti-Doping’s (Ukad) guidelines.
Englishman Taylor had received his first-round match towards Oskar Lukasiak however information of his failed medicine take a look at and suspension was launched earlier than his scheduled second-round match towards Jonny Clayton.
Welshman Clayton, who was the fifth seed at Alexandra Palace, acquired a bye by to spherical three because of this.
Taylor later posted on Fb to say he was “sincerely sorry” for his actions, that his psychological well being had been affected by quite a few private traumas and that he can be “getting the assistance” he wanted.
Because of the findings, Taylor forfeited his £25,000 prize cash for reaching the second spherical of the World Championship.
That meant he dropped simply outdoors the highest 64 within the PDC’s world rankings and has subsequently misplaced his PDC tour card for 2026.
