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The motorcycle race of Andrea Iannone probably made it to the terminal. On Tuesday, the Lausanne Court of Arbitration for Sport imposed four years disqualification (the maximum penalty provided by the Anti-Doping Code) for the 1.15 nanograms / ml of drostanolone, an anabolic steroid included in the S1 category of substances prohibited by the Anti-Doping Code, found in his urine on November 3, 2019 in Sepang, after the Malaysian GP. At the sports level, a complex case ends, full of twists, between media and controversy.
Andrea Iannone – the referees write in the summary of the reasons for the sentence – affirms that the source of the prohibited substance is the contaminated meat consumed in Malaysia before the Grand Prix. But Tas’s scientific panel found that Iannone had been unable to establish either the precise type of meat he had eaten or the origin of that meat. Furthermore, neither Andrea Iannone nor her experts were able to specifically establish that there was a Drostanolone contamination problem of meat in Malaysia. This group therefore considered that an intentional violation of the Code has been committed.
The conclusion of this Panel – the document continues – does not in itself exclude the possibility that Iannone’s positivity could be the result of consuming meat contaminated with Drostanolone, but Iannone was unable to provide any convincing evidence to establish that the violation committed was inadvertent.
Asked by the Corriere, Antonio De Rensis, head of the Abruzzese cyclist’s legal team, spoke of sensational scientific errors in the reasons that we and our consultants will soon reveal and to appeal to the Swiss Federal Court within thirty days. An appeal that is formally possible (even if the CAS is a judge of last resort in the sports field) but that has a favorable outcome in a very limited number of cases. The outcome of the trial was considered crucial by Wada who, faced with an unfavorable ruling, would have seen all the jurisprudence on food contamination questioned.
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November 10, 2020 (change November 10, 2020 | 1:12 PM)
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