Overview
- The International Testing Agency imposed a 20‑month suspension retroactive to 1 March 2025, sidelining the Austrian luge star for Milan‑Cortina 2026.
- The case stems from three missed doping controls in 2023 linked to inaccurate ADAMS whereabouts, which constitute a violation when they occur within 12 months under WADA rules.
- Egle denies doping and describes the lapses as an overnight stay unreported in time, a travel‑day time‑zone error, and an Airbnb address without the apartment number compounded by an internet outage.
- Austria’s federation publicly backed her and criticized the penalty as disproportionate, calling her a clean athlete.
- She will not appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport due to cost and low chances, after a roughly 20‑month process that earlier reportedly considered harsher sanctions including result disqualifications.