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Post by Joylan1 » Jul Mon 12, 2021 5:03 pm

This is a problem with the doping issue their busy testing the top 10 players, they allow the lower-ranking players to juice up all they want.

Federer said he believes players should be tested wants they get to the quarters of any tournament.

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Post by Ace2Ace » Jul Mon 12, 2021 9:22 pm

Joylan1 wrote:
Jul Mon 12, 2021 5:03 pm
This is a problem with the doping issue their busy testing the top 10 players, they allow the lower-ranking players to juice up all they want.

Federer said he believes players should be tested wants they get to the quarters of any tournament.
Any 1st round.

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Post by Grossefavourite » Jul Mon 12, 2021 10:50 pm

Word was out that drug testing was heavily hampered by covid towards the end of last year. No surprise so many got caught in December. I don't trust her. She was known as a 'cheater' even before the positive test, asking for the trainer at critical times of the match. Kiki Bertens was asked about that and her response was, "I played her 3 times and she called the trainer 3 times. That's my answer." LOL

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Post by Grossefavourite » Jul Tue 13, 2021 11:07 am

Another Ukrainian getting caught in later 2020.
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Gymnast Oleg Verniaiev out of Olympics after doping ban today
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Olympic champion gymnast Oleg Verniaiev is set to miss the Tokyo Games because he has been banned following a failed drug test.

The Ukrainian gymnast said in an Instagram post on Tuesday that he tested positive for the banned substance meldonium and was banned after a ruling by the Gymnastics Ethics Foundation, which hears disciplinary cases in the sport.

Verniaiev said the GEF “decided that the concentration of meldonium found in my body is sufficient to ban me for four years” and that the ban is backdated to run from November 2020. That could also rule him out of the 2024 Olympics in Paris.

Verniaiev denies wrongdoing and said he will appeal the ruling to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

“The main question is how a banned substances got into my body?” he wrote. “Why did it happen at a time when there were no serious international competitions and there was only light training taking place?”

Verniaiev won gold on the parallel bars at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics in 2016 and was the silver medalist in the all-around, in a dramatic, close loss to Japan’s Kohei Uchimura. Since then, his competitive appearances have been limited by injuries and now his ban, though he won all-around bronze at the last world championships in 2019.

The GEF and the International Gymnastics Federation have not commented on the case.

A positive test for meldonium led to tennis star Maria Sharapova serving a 15-month ban. Sharapova said she did not know it had been banned.

Meldonium is a heart medication developed in the then-Soviet Union, and was banned in sports from 2016.

It was also the substance which caused Russian curler Alexander Krushelnitsky to be stripped of a bronze medal at the 2018 Winter Olympics. Two Russian rowers were removed from their country’s Olympic squad last week after positive tests for meldonium.

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Post by Grossefavourite » Jul Tue 13, 2021 11:18 am

Russian hurdler cleared of doping caused by baby son’s pills
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June 22, 2021

GENEVA (AP) — Russian former world champion hurdler Sergei Shubenkov was cleared on Tuesday in a doping case he explained was caused by his baby son’s medication.

The judges at Shubenkov’s hearing described the case as “genuinely exceptional,” said track and field’s Athletics Integrity Unit which prosecuted it in secret ahead of the Tokyo Olympics.

The 2015 world champion in 110 meters hurdles tested positive for “a low concentration” of a diuretic called acetazolamide in December.

Shubenkov cited a medication that was being taken by his son, who was then aged three months, in a post on his Instagram page after the verdict was announced.

“A child at this age cannot swallow, so the pills must have been prepared in a certain way,” he wrote in Russian and English. “That resulted in tiny almost invisible particles of powder being at my kitchen that have caused a positive test.”

The AIU said in a statement it made “a thorough investigation of the athlete’s explanation,” that related to “unintentional ingestion of residue from medication being used to treat a family member,”

The three judges at an independent tribunal “found that it was a ‘genuinely exceptional’ case, accepted the athlete’s plea of no fault or negligence, and rejected the AIU’s request that a period of ineligibility be imposed,” the AIU said.

The verdict can be challenged at the Court of Arbitration for Sport by the Monaco-based AIU or the World Anti-Doping Agency.

“Luckily, it ended up nicely,” Shubenkov wrote. “I’m glad and thankful to AIU and WA (World Athletics) that they have managed to review and resolve this case properly.”

Confidentiality surrounding the case was possible because of the category of banned substance and the fact Shubenkov was not suspended pending the verdict, the AIU said.

It is unclear if Shubenkov will be selected in the Russia team for Tokyo which is limited to 10 athletes in fallout from the long-running national doping scandal. He could not compete at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics.

The 30-year-old runner took silver medals in the 110 hurdles at the past two world championships and bronze in 2013 in Moscow.

Shubenkov was cleared in March by World Athletics to compete this season at international events as an “authorized neutral athlete.”

The “ANA” status is granted as an exemption for Russian athletes whose drug-testing record passes vetting to compete while their national athletics federation is suspended.

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