The trouble with Ostarine: Jimmy Wallhead’s
16th March 2018

• Shayna Jack has announced that she has ‘received notice’ regarding her decision to challenge a four year ban at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS). The Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority (ASADA) and Swimming Australia didn’t announce the imposition of the ban, which was reported by SwimSwam. She blamed contaminated supplements after reported an adverse analytical finding (AAF) for Lingradol (LGD-4033) in July last year. ‘Despite a lifetime of competing clean and knowing that I had not used any prohibited substance, my life changed in an instance and I was pitchforked into an unknown world of lawyers, politics and machinations that was completely foreign to me’, wrote Jack on Instagram, echoing sentiments reported by Mark Dry in his recent case. ‘The process has been extremely arduous and debilitating at times. There are many aspects of the anti-doping system that are seriously flawed but possibly the worst element is the presumption of guilt that one has to bear. What sort of system infers that you are guilty of an alleged breach and the responsibility falls on you to prove your innocence?’
• Reanalysis of a sample taken from Luis Ricardo Villalobos Hernandez on 25 April 2019 has resulted in an adverse analytical finding (AAF) for GHRP-6, the International Cycling Union (UCI) announced. The UCI said that the sample was reanalysed by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), and relates to Hernandez’s time with Team Avelo.
• The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has dismissed an appeal from Grenadian sprinter Bralon Taplin against a four year ban issued for evading a doping test. The CAS found that on 13 April 2019, at the Grenada Invitational, Taplin was informed by a chaperone that he must undergo doping control, however he left the stadium and flew home the next day.
• The International Cycling Union (UCI) has sanctioned Jarlinson Pantano Gómez with a four year ban for an anti-doping rule violation (ADRV) involving recombinant erythropoietin (EPO). The Colombian retired in June last year, after the UCI announced the adverse analytical finding (AAF) in April.
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• Peter Ivanov’s (Петр Иванов) 22 January appointment as Deputy Head of the Federal Anti-monopoly...