Facts
The Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sports charges François Valiquette, the athlete, for a violation of the Anti-Doping Rules. On June 15, 2014, in Lachute, Québec, during an out-of-competition doping control, the Athlete provided an urine sample for doping control purposes. The analysis indicates the presence of a metabolite of metandienone. Metandienone is a prohibited substance on the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) 2014 Prohibited List.
History
The athlete claimed the positive test derived from the use of creatine. An unsealed specimen and two sealed specimens were examined, one of the sealed specimens was of the same batch. Only the unsealed specimen contained metandienone. It is not possible to determine how the prohibited substance had became part of the unsealed specimen.
Decision
The period of ineligibility is set to two years. The ineligibility period will be served, starting from the date of the sample collection, from June 15, 2014 to June 15, 2016.
