[ad_1]
Olympic medal winner Fransson passed a doping test earlier this year that shows traces of the banned substance methyltestosterone. She claims her innocence.
Now Professor Mats Larsson has joined the fight to help the sport profile.
“I am absolutely convinced that she is innocent,” he says in an interview with the Expressen newspaper.
Unreliable
Larsson is a professor of molecular physics and, among other things, has investigated molecular formation in space. He says that he himself has worked with techniques similar to those used in doping analysis. Therefore, he has developed a special interest in the field.
Larsson claims that the testing methods used are not 100 percent reliable. When it comes to Jenny Fransson’s positive test, he has two theories.
– In the last few days I have reviewed the laboratory report, and there I am quite convinced that the nature of the laboratory with a metabolite has not met Wada’s requirements, says the professor.
Wada is the International Anti-Doping Agency.
We ate fish
Larsson’s other theory, which he will present to the doping board in Sweden, is that the switch has gotten the substance banned by eating fish.
– I have a friend and colleague in Ukraine, a female chemist, who started looking for various sources of steroids. And he has found Chinese articles showing that there are synthetic steroids in fish and water, among other things. We are investigating the matter now, says Larsson.
He also believes it will be difficult to get Fransson acquitted of the charges.
Fransson has already been brought to the summer games in Japan. The veteran took bronze from the Olympics during the Rio Olympics in 2016, and last fall there was silver during the World Cup in Kazakhstan.
[ad_2]
