Related Case:
CAS 2012/A/2756 James (Jim) Armstrong vs World Curling Federation
The Wold Curling Federation (WCF) has reported an anti-doping rule violation against the Parathlete James Armstrong after his sample tested positive for the prohibited substance Tamoxifen. Following notification the Athlete filed a statement with evidence in his defence and was heard for the WCF Case Hearing Panel.
The Athlete explained he had moved from the West Coast to Ontario after his wife died of breast cancer in 2009. All his prescription medications were moved in the same box, including those belonging to his wife.
Occasionally when he became short of medications he would use the medication in this box and therefore unwittingly contamination occurred of his medication with old prescribed Tamoxifen medication of his deceased wife.
The Panel found that Athlete acted negligently in storing, re packaging and reusing medicine containers with or without their contents (in this case Tamoxifen), particularly containers of drugs prescribed for another person. The Panel is not convinced that in this case the level of Tamoxifen detected is compatible with a simple contamination but as a residue of and ingestion of the substance.
Concluding that the Athlete was seriously negligently, but without evidence of intent or actual enhancement of performance exists, the WCF Case Hearing Panel decides to impose an 18 month period of ineligibility on the Athlete.
