The trouble with Ostarine: Jimmy Wallhead’s
16th March 2018
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• Amateur cyclist Flavio Pagliaccia has been sanctioned with a twelve year ban after returning an adverse analytical finding (AAF) for a metabolite of cocaine after competing whilst provisionally suspended. Pagliaccia was provisionally suspended after returning an AAF for testosterone in April last year, and in October was sanctioned with a four year ban. However, he continued to compete and tested positive for a metabolite of cocaine in September. NADO Italia added an eight year sanction to the four year ban issued in October, meaning Pagliaccia’s ban will expire on 19 May 2031.
• Three Colombian weightlifters have returned adverse analytical findings (AAFs) for boldenone, the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) has announced. They are Ana Iris Segura, who won Silver in the 49kg category at the Lima 2019 Pan American Games; Juan Felipe Solis Arboleda, who won Bronze in the 81kg category; and Yenny Sinisterra, who won Silver in the 55kg category. Colombia finished top of the medal table at Lima 2019.
• Sarah Giomi has been sanctioned with a reprimand, after Italy’s anti-doping agency (NADO Italia) accepted that an adverse analytical finding (AAF) for prednisone and prednisolone was caused by asthma medication. In a post on Instagram (below), Giomi said that athletes ‘have a responsibility to know these rules well’, and that although she spent ‘time and money’ informing herself as best she could, ‘something escaped my attention’. She said that whilst Italy’s national anti-doping tribunal had ‘recognised my good faith’, she had rightly been stripped of her title as Italian Marathon champion.
• Martina Caironi has been sanctioned with a one year ban, and Dr. Mauro Guicciardi has been sanctioned with a two year ban for complicity under Article 2.9 of the World Anti-Doping Code. It is understood that the doctor administered Trofodermin cream (containing clostebol) to the Paralympian, who won Gold in the 100m at the London 2012 Olympics and Silver in the long jump at the Rio 2016 Olympics, without obtaining a Therapeutic Use Exemption (TUE).
Forty four athletes from 13 countries, competing in 15 sports, were involved in anti-doping proceedings...
Thirty five athletes competing in 21 sports, from eleven countries, were involved in anti-doping proceedings...
Twenty one athletes from ten countries, competing in 17 sports, were involved in anti-doping proceedings...