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NIJB 2013 NIJB Decision Disciplinary Committee 2013009 T
September 27, 2013
On 27 September 2013 the Disciplinary Committee of the Netherlands Ice Hockey Federation (Nederlandse IJshockey Bond, NIJB) decided to impose a 15 month period of ineligibility on the Person after his sample tested positive for the prohibited substances cocaine and amphetamine.
Hereafter in October 2013 the Person appealed the decision of 27 September 2013 with the NIJB Appeal Committee. The Person requested to impose a conditional sanction and stated that he disapproves the use of drugs. He argued that the use of cocaine and amphetamine was not intentional because he didn’t know that the cigarettes he smoked contained these substances.
He smoked these cigarettes after a dinner, and not as mentioned at a party, in the house of his friend with her family. One of the guests sustained as witness the Person’s statement about his friend's cigarettes and that these look indentical to regular cigarettes.
The Committee accepts the statements and concludes that the Person acted without significant fault or negligence because of the exceptional circumstances.
Therefore the NIJB Appeal Committee decides on 27 November 2013 to annul the Decision of 27 September 2017, to reduce the sanction and to impose a 1 year period of ineglibility starting on the date of the provisional suspension, i.e. on 6 March 2013.
