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- TJD-AD 2019-024 Disciplinary Decision - Swimming
October 11, 2019 - TJD-AD 2020-021 Appeal Decision - Swimming
March 31, 2020
The Brazilian Doping Control Authority (ABCD) has reported an anti-doping rule violation against the swimmer after her sample tested positive for the prohibited substance Furosemide. After notification the Athlete filed a statement in her defence.
The Athlete claimed that the source of the positive test was a contaminated supplement she had used. In this matter she handed over the supplement in question and a laboratory report stating that this supplement was contaminated.
Thereupon the analysis of this supplement in the Rio Lab did not reveal a prohibited substance. Further the Rio Lab did not accept the findings of the Athlete's laboratory report because this laboratory was not accredited and had used non appoved methods and technology. There was also no evidence that the analysed supplement came from the same batch the Athlete had consumed prior to the sample collection.
The TJD-AD Rapporteur agrees that only the approved testing results of the WADA accredited Rio Lab are acceptable and that there is no evidence that the analysed supplement in question came from the same batch the Athlete prior had used.
However the Rapporteur is willing to accept that the violation was not intentional and that the Athlete had acted negligently.
Therefore the TJD-AD Panel decides on 19 February 2020 to impose a 12 month period of ineligibility on the Athlete, starting on the date of the sample collection, i.e. on 19 June 2019.
