On 24 September 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 1 year period of ineligibility on the respondent after his A and B samples tested positive for the prohibited substance cannabis.
Hereafter in October 2014 the respondent appealed the AEPSAD decision with the Tribunal Administrativo del Deporte (TAD), the Spanish Disciplinary Committee for Sports.
The respondent requested to impose a warning and argued that he fully cooperated in this case as first violation and without intention to enhance sport performance.
The Tribunal rejects the respondents arguments and concludes that with no significant negligence the imposed sanction was proportional.
Therefore on 4 December 2014 the Tribunal decides to dismiss the respondent’s appeal and confirmes the AEPSAD decision of 24 September 2014.
