On 9 October 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 the prohibited substance methylhexaneamine (dimethylpentylamine).
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 argued that he had no intention to enhance and that the prohibited substance wasn’t mentioned on the label of the product he used.
Considering the statements and evidence the Tribunal concludes that the respondent failed to research the ingredients of the product before using it and failed to prove that he acted without intention to enhance his performance.
Therefore on 9 January 2015 the Tribunal decides to dismiss the respondent’s appeal and confirmes the AEPSAD decision of 9 October 2014.
