facts
Courtny Nagel (player) was reported for a an Anti-Doing Rules violation (ADRV). A sample provided by her on 28 July 2008 at the Nordic Light event in Stockholm, Sweden, revealed the prohibited substance canrenone.
history
Ms Nagle has explained the presence of Canrenone in her system was due to her therapeutic use of spironolactone to treat a medical condition. She has produced medical records confirming the diagnosis and the prescription of spironolactone to treat that condition in 2004, with further prescriptions in 2005 and 2006. She explains that she had a ‘flare up’ of her condition in the summer of 2008, started taking the spironolactone again on 2 July 2008, and stopped on September 2, 2008, after the condition improved. Ms Nagle explained that she was not aware the medication prescribed to her contained any prohibited substance. She says she took the medication only for therapeutic purposes and not to enhance her performance or to mask the use of any other substance, and notes that she declared the medication on her doping control form when she provided her sample on 29 July 2008.
considerations tribunal
The medical condition is proven, she even filled in the name of the medicine on the doping form. She established to explain how the prohibited substance entered her body. Canrenone is not classified as a “specified substance” in the 2008 list of prohibited substances and Prohibited Methods, but it is so classified in the 2009 List (Lex Mitior).
decision
Ms Nagle acknowledges that she has committed a Doping Offence under Article C.1 of the Program and accepts the following consequences:
1. A sixteen-month period of Ineligibility, backdated to commence on 29 July 2008 and therefore ending at midnight on November 28, 2009.
2. Disqualification of her results achieved in the following events, including the forfeiture of the ranking points and prize money awarded therein.
3. Ms Nagle has waived her right, under Article O of the Program, to appeal against the Decision, both as to the finding that she has committed a Doping Offence and as to the imposition of the Consequences
