Jeff Evanshine

The news hit Jeff Evanshine like a lightning bolt. Somebody knocked on his hotel door the night before the U.S. Olympic cycling trials in Altoona, Pa., and told him he'd been suspended for three months for failing to appear at a drug test. So many good things have happened to Evanshine in the five years the Placentia resident has been cycling. But 12 hours before one of the biggest races of his life, it all came crashing down around him. A possible berth on the Olympic team was history.

Jeff Evanshine, the reigning junior world road race champion, was suspended from competition for three months by the U.S. Cycling Federation for failing to appear for a random drug test. The suspension, effective immediately, will keep the 18-year-old from Colorado Springs, Colo., from competing in Altoona, Pa., this week in the U.S. Cycling Olympic trials. He can appeal the suspension to the U.S. Olympic Committee through an independent arbitrator. Last summer, Evanshine became the first U.S.

Jeff Evanshine of Placentia, the 1991 world junior road race champion, received a 30-day stay while appealing a U.S. Cycling Federation suspension for failing to appear for a mandatory drug test.

Jeff Evanshine of Placentia became the first American junior male to win a gold medal at the World Cycling Championships since Greg LeMond in 1979, winning a 77-mile race at Colorado Springs, Colo., in 3 hours 3 minutes 33 seconds.

The news hit Jeff Evanshine like a lightning bolt. Somebody knocked on his hotel door the night before the U.S. Olympic cycling trials in Altoona, Pa., and told him he'd been suspended for three months for failing to appear at a drug test. So many good things have happened to Evanshine in the five years the Placentia resident has been cycling. But 12 hours before one of the biggest races of his life, it all came crashing down around him. A possible berth on the Olympic team was history.

Jeff Evanshine of Placentia, the 1991 world junior road race champion, received a 30-day stay while appealing a U.S. Cycling Federation suspension for failing to appear for a mandatory drug test.

Jeff Evanshine, the reigning junior world road race champion, was suspended from competition for three months by the U.S. Cycling Federation for failing to appear for a random drug test. The suspension, effective immediately, will keep the 18-year-old from Colorado Springs, Colo., from competing in Altoona, Pa., this week in the U.S. Cycling Olympic trials. He can appeal the suspension to the U.S. Olympic Committee through an independent arbitrator. Last summer, Evanshine became the first U.S.

Jeff Evanshine of Placentia became the first American junior male to win a gold medal at the World Cycling Championships since Greg LeMond in 1979, winning a 77-mile race at Colorado Springs, Colo., in 3 hours 3 minutes 33 seconds.