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- CCES 2022 CCES vs Donovan Burgmaier (1)
March 15, 2022 - CCES 2023 CCES vs Donovan Burgmaier
August 23, 2023
In April 2022 the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport (CCES) reported an anti-doping rule violation against the football player Donovan Burgmaier for the Presence of a prohibited substance after his sample tested positive for the substance Dehydrochlormethyltestosterone.
After notification the Athlete gave a prompt admission, waived his right for a hearing and accepted the sanction proposed by CCES. Because the Athlete signed and submitted the Early Admission and Acceptance Form he received a 1 year reduction from CCES.
Previously a CCES investigation had established that the Athlete also had used Dehydrochlormethyltestosterone in 2016 and 2017 as a player of the Edmonton Huskies in the Canadian Junior Football League.
For this Use violation the Athlete already made a prompt admission, waived his right for a hearing and signed and submitted the Early Admission and Acceptance Form. As a result he accepted on 15 March 2022 a 3 year period of ineligibility starting on the date of the provisional suspension, i.e. on 26 January 2022.
In this Presence case the CCES deems that the period of ineligibility for the Athlete's Presence and Use of Dehydrochlormethyltestosterone shall run consecutively after the sanction for the initial Use violation has expired. Both violations are be constituted a single first violation.
Therefore CCES decides on 30 May 2022 to impose a 3 year period of ineligibility on the Athlete, starting on the date the Athlete's 3 year period of ineligibility shall end for his Use violation, i.e. on 25 January 2025.
