Drug Free Sport New Zealand (DFSNZ) has reported an anti-doping rule violation against the Respondent after he refused to provide a sample for drug testing. After notification a provisional suspension was ordered. Respondent filed a statement in his defence and was heard for the Tribunal.
Respondent admitted the violation. He stated that he could not urinate straight away to provide a sample. Therefore he drank enough water and waited in the testing room. While waiting in the testing room people were coming and going. He felt tired, cold and hungry and got anxious and frustrated because he wasn’t able to urinate. At that point he left the testing station despite the officials warning to him of the consequences of leaving the area before providing a sample.
Without mitigating circumstances the Sports Tribunal of New Zealand decides to impose a 24 month period of ineligibility on the Respondent starting on the date of the provisional suspension, i.e. on 2 December 2013.
