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FISA 2015 FISA vs Beatriz Tavares Cardoso
August 8, 2015
FISA 2015 FISA vs Kissya Cataldo Da Costa
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In June 2015 the International Federation of Rowing Associations (FISA) has reported an anti-doping rule violation against the Athlete Nayara Furtado Pena after her A and B sample tested positive for the prohibited substance stanozolol.
After notification the Athlete filed a statement with evidence in her defence and she was heard for the FISA Doping Hearing Panel.
The Athlete denied the intentional use of the substance and could not explain how it came into her system. She assumed that it may have been someone else’s sample. The Athlete asserted, sustained by witnesses, that departures from the ISTI occurred in particular the failure to notify the athlete of the right to be accompanied to the doping control station, and the apparent lack of security of the doping control station when the DCO was out of the room.
Considering the witness statements the Panel agrees that significant departures of the ISTI occurred in this case. However the Panel concludes that these departures of the ISTI could not reasonably have caused the positive test, even if there is a theoretical possibility of interference with the samples.
Thefore the FISA Doping Hearing Panel is comfortably satisfied that the anti-doping rule violation is established and decides on 8 August 2015 to impose a 4 year period of ineligibility on the Athlete starting on the date of the sample collection, i.e. on 28 May 2015.
