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On 12 March 2015 the Hearing Commission of the Agenţia Naţională Anti-Doping (ANAD), the National Anti-Doping Agency of Romania, decided to impose lifetime ineligibility on the coach Laurentiu Basarab as athlete support personnel for the administration of the prohibited substance 17β-hydroxymethyl-17α-methyl-18-norandrost-1,4,13-trien-3-one (metandienone) to a minor Athlete.
Hereafter the coach appealed the decision of 12 March 2015 with the ANAD Appeal Commission.
The coach requested to annul the imposed sanction and argued that he was not an official coach under contact with the tennis club where the minor athlete was training and therefore not to be considered and sanctioned as athlete support personnel. As a former tennis player he stated that he was only requested to give the athlete private tennis lessons.
Considering the statements and evidence the Appeal Commission concludes that the coach has liability and a coaching relationship with the athlete in spite of he was not an official coach under contract with the tennis club.
Therefore on 22 June 2015 the ANAD Appeal Commission decides to dismiss the appeal and to uphold the decision of the ANAD Hearing Commission of 12 March 2015 to impose lifetime ineligibility on the coach.
