Related cases:
FISA 2012 FISA vs Kissya Cataldo Da Costa
November 28, 2012
FISA 2015 FISA vs Nayara Furtado Pena
August 6, 2015
FISA 2015 FISA vs Beatriz Tavares Cardoso
August 8, 2015
In June 2015 the International Federation of Rowing Associations (FISA) has reported an anti-doping rule violation against the Athlete Kissya Cataldo Da Costa after her A and B sample tested positive for the prohibited substance furosemide. After notification a provisional suspension was ordered. The Athlete filed a statement with evidence in her defence and she was heard for the FISA Doping Hearing Panel.
The Athlete confirmed that previously she had committed an and-doping violation at the London 2012 Olympic Games for using rhEPO and denied the intentional use of the substance furosemide in the current case. She could not explain how the substance came into her system and asserted that someone may have somehow tampered with the sample because some departures from the ISTI show that there was opportunity for tampering.
The Panel agrees that there were significant departures from the ISTI but concludes that the departures from the ISTI could not reasonable have caused the positive test, even if there is a theoretical possibility of interference with the samples.
The FISA Doping Hearing Panel is comfortably satisfied that the anti-doping rule violation is established and considering this is the Athlete’s second anti-doping violation the Panel decides on 7 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.
