Facts
The UK Anti-Doping organization (UKAD) charges Jordan McMillan, the player, for an anti-doping rule (ADR) violation. On December 3, 2014, UKAD collected an in-competition sample for a doping test. Analysis of the sample did show the presence of benzoylecgonine a metabolite of cocaine. Cocaine is a prohibited substance according to the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) 2014 prohibited list.
History
The player accepts the results of the test but denies that he had any knowledge of its ingestion nor had any intent to ingest such a substance at any time. It was alleged, that he had been consuming cocaine as a recreational substance but that such consumption on November 30, 2014, was unknown to the Athlete. A friend of the family made the statement that he had mixed his drink with cocaine and was used by the athlete unintentionally because he drank from the wrong glass. The athlete is against the use of drugs, especially because his own brother died of an overdose.
The Tribunal did not consider the evidence to be reliable and credible as regards how the prohibited substance had entered the system of the athlete.
Decision
- The player is ruled ineligible for a period of two (2) years in accordance. The period of ineligibility is deemed to have started running from the date that he was charged and provisionally suspended. It will therefore run from December 18, 2014, to December 17, 2016 (inclusive).
