Impairment during Athlete Evaluation and/or at any other point after the allocation of a Sport Class. This disciplinary offence is referred to as ‘Intentional Misrepresentation’. 

It will be a disciplinary offence for any Athlete or Athlete Support Personnel to assist an Athlete in committing Intentional Misrepresentation or to be in any other way involved in any other type of complicity involving Intentional Misrepresentation, including but not limited to covering up Intentional Misrepresentation or disrupting any part of the Athlete Evaluation process. 

In respect of any allegation relating to Intentional Misrepresentation, the UCI may refer the case to the UCI Disciplinary Commission which shall decide whether the Athlete or Athlete Support Personnel has committed Intentional Misrepresentation. 

The consequences to be applied to an Athlete or Athlete Support Personnel who is found to have been guilty of Intentional Misrepresentation and/or complicity involving Intentional Misrepresentation shall be one or more of the following: 

− disqualification from all events at the Competition at which the Intentional Misrepresentation occurred, and any subsequent Competitions at which the Athlete competed; 

− being allocated with Sport Class Not Eligible (NE) and designated a Review with Fixed Review Date (FRD) Sport Class Status for a specified period of time ranging from 1 to 4 years; 

− suspension from participation in Competitions in all sport for a specified period of time ranging from 1 to 4 years; and 

− the UCI may publish their names and suspension period. 

Such allocation or suspension shall be issued by the UCI Disciplinary Commission. The UCI may publish their names and suspension period. 

Any Athlete who is found to have been guilty of Intentional Misrepresentation and/or complicity involving Intentional Misrepresentation on more than one occasion shall be allocated Sport Class Not Eligible with Fixed Review Date Status for a period of time from four years to life. Such allocation shall be issued by the UCI Disciplinary Commission. 

Any Athlete Support Personnel who is found to have been guilty of Intentional Misrepresentation and/or complicity involving Intentional Misrepresentation on more than one occasion shall be suspended from participation in any Competition for a period of time from four years to life. Such suspension shall be issued by the UCI Disciplinary Commission. 

If another International Sports Federation brings disciplinary proceedings against an Athlete or Athlete Support Personnel in respect of Intentional Misrepresentation which results in consequences being imposed on that Athlete or Athlete Support Personnel, those consequences shall be recognised, respected and enforced by the UCI. 

Teams which include an Athlete or Athlete Support Personnel who is found to have been guilty of Intentional Misrepresentation and/or complicity involving Intentional Misrepresentation, shall be Disqualified from all events at the Competition at which the Intentional Misrepresentation occurred, and any subsequent Competitions in which the Athlete competed. Any team, whether composed differently or not, of which such Athlete was a member, shall be Disqualified from the same Competitions as the Athlete. 

