Facts
The French Federation of Weightlifting, Fitness, Powerlifting and Bodybuilding (Fédération Française d'Halterophilie, Musculation, Force Athlétique et Culturisme, FFHMFAC) charges respondent M03 for a violation of the Anti-Doping Rules. During a bodybuilding event on May 8, 2011, a sample was taken for doping test purposes. The analysis of the sample showed the presence of a metabolite of drostanolone or methatesterone. Drostanolone and methatesterone are prohibited substances according the World Anti-Doping Agency prohibited list.
History
The respondent thinks that a contaminated diet supplement caused the positive doping test. The respondent has already been convicted for acts of the same nature (two years) suspension by a decision of 9 February 2005, pronounced against him by the
Disciplinary Commission of the FFHMFAC.
Decision
1. The sanction is a period of ineligibility of twenty years in which respondent can't take part in competition or manifestations organized or authorized by the French sport federations.
2. The period of ineligibility will be reduced by the period already served in voluntary suspension and the period of the decision dated August 3, 2010, of the disciplinary committee of the FFHMFAC.
3. The decision dated August 3, 2010, of the disciplinary committee of the FFHMFAC will be modified.
4. The appeal of the respondent is rejected.
5. The decision starts on the date of notification.
6. The decision will be published and sent to the parties involved.
