JADCO 2021 JADCO vs Deidre Lewis

In December 2020 the Jamaica Anti-Doping Commission (JADCO) has reported an anti-doping rule violation against the bodybuilder Deidre Lewis after her A and B samples tested positive for the prohibited substance Zeranol in a low concentration.

After notification  a provisional suspension was ordered. The Athlete filed a statement in her defence and she was heard for the Jamaica Independent Anti-Doping Disciplinary Panel.

The Athlete accepted the test results and admitted the violation. She denied the intentional use of the substance wheras she could not explain how the Zeranol had entered her system.

With support of an expert witness the Athlete asserted that the substance has a long excretion time and that the low concentration found in her samples could be consistent with natural food ingestion and not the result of supplement contamination.

The Panel finds that the presence of a prohibited substance has been established in the Athlete's sample and accordingly that she committed an anti-doping rule violation. The Panel considers that t is more likely that the violation was not intentional instead of that the violation was committed  intentionally.

Therefore the Jamaica Independent Anti-Doping Disciplinary Panel decides on 11 May 2021 to impose a 2 year period of ineligibility on the Athlete, starting on the date of the provisional suspension.

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Date
11 May 2021
Arbitrator
Calder, Donovan
Forrest, Denise
Gammon, Kent P.
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Jamaica Anti-Doping Commission (JADCO)
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Jamaica
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English
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Adverse Analytical Finding / presence
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Bodybuilding & Fitness (IFBB) - International Federation of Bodybuilding & Fitness
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Jamaica Anti-Doping Commission (JADCO)
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Montreal, Canada: Laboratoire de controle du dopage INRS-Institut Armand-Frappier
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S1. Anabolic Agents
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Zeranol
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