On 14 July 2014 the Spanish Agency for the Protection of Health in Sport (Agencia Española de Protección de la Salud en el Deporte, AEPSAD) decided to impose a 2 year period of ineligibility on the respondent after his sample tested positive for a prohibited substance methylhexaneamine (dimethylpentylamine).
Hereafter in July 2014 the respondent appealed the AEPSAD decision with the Tribunal Administrativo del Deporte (TAD), the Spanish Disciplinary Committee for Sports.
The Tribunal concludes after review of the case that AEPSAD failed to consider the submitted arguments of the Respondent in their decision due to technical problems and also mentioned in their decision that the respondent had not submitted a written statement in his defence.
Therefore on 12 September 2014 the Tribunal decides to partially accept the respondent’s appeal and to refer back the decision to AEPSAD.
