10 June 2020

WADA seeks four year ban for Andrea Iannone

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) is arguing that Andrea Iannone should be sanctioned with a four year ban for an anti-doping rule violation (ADRV), which the international motorcycling federation (FIM) accepted was due to consumption of contaminated food. ‘Andrea Iannone seeks to have the Challenged Decision annulled, whereas WADA requests that the Challenged Decision be replaced by a new decision imposing a four-year period of ineligibility on the rider’, read a statement from the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).

The Italian MotoGP rider had already announced his intention to appeal the FIM decision to sanction him with an 18 month ban. ‘Being judged as innocent certainly does not leave me happy because, for the first time in history, an athlete is judged as innocent yet at the same time, is sentenced to 18 months for eating contaminated food over which he has no control’, wrote Iannone on Instagram (below). ‘And I will not stop in my quest against this sentence because it should never happen again for anybody else’. 

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Although the FIM hasn’t published its Decision, a 1 April statement from Iannone’s team confirmed that the FIM had accepted that Iannone’s adverse analytical finding (AAF – or ‘positive test’) for a metabolite of drostanolone was accidental.‘It is satisfying to see how the total absence of intention was recognised and the accidental nature of the consumption of steroids, in fact recognising the argument of food contamination’, it reads.

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