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Jenny Fransson was prepared to take her case to the highest court. He wanted Cas to revoke the four-year doping ban to which he was sentenced and which was confirmed by the Swedish Sports Board (RIN).
Cas has now announced that they will not address the matter. This since his appeal was one day late.
– It never feels like you have an honest chance and now there is nothing else to do. You just have to accept that it is, says Fransson resigned.
Her process The appeal to the Lausanne court has been fraught with problems. A first document that Fransson was asked to send, the so-called Statement of Appeal, was delayed in the mail, but eventually reached the box office on time.
However, the second most detailed document (appeal brief), which was due to be submitted no later than November 16 of last year, did not.
Mats Larsson, Fransson’s legal representative, explains that he had not paid attention to the time limit, but that the document was received by Cas on the 17th, a day late.
According to Larsson, Cas could still have taken the case if the other party, in this case the Swedish Sports Board, had given their approval. Therefore, he has repeatedly asked Cas to contact the board.
But the day before New Years Eve Jenny Fransson received a letter from Cas in which the court announced that it would not take the case.
“Cas’s office will no longer respond to any incoming correspondence regarding this dispute,” it says in a document that DN has read.
Cas has not contacted the National Board of Sports in the Fransson case. This is confirmed by Joakim Dahl, Registrar of the Swedish Sports Confederation, for DN.
Jenny Fransson during a 2019 national team camp.
Photo: Ludvig Thunman / Bildbyrån
Jenny Fransson says she is disappointed and has experienced the entire legal process as extremely complicated. She understands if there are those who think she should have been aware of the time limit.
– But it’s hard to read and you honestly feel pretty lonely and stupid. Only Mats (Larsson) helped me and if he hadn’t, nothing would have happened, he says and explains that he doesn’t blame his agent for not getting the papers on time.
It has been almost a year since he gave a positive doping test for the banned anabolic steroid methyltestosterone and his whole life changed. It was a relatively small amount and the sample was close to the cutoff value of what should be evaluated as a negative test.
Fransson says that even today he has no idea how the preparation ended up on his body. You’ve wondered if it was at a bar or with someone you wrestled with, but you never seem to get an answer.
– I know I have not doped and it feels so unreal that I will never know how I got this on me. You feel helpless, he says and explains that the whole thing has given him a new perspective on anti-doping work.
– I honestly think the whole process is handled in an unprofessional way, he says.
For an athlete who has always been tough on cheaters, it feels difficult to accept that she will now be marked as doped herself. At the same time, he is aware that the generalized deception in sport has forced to demand that the athlete always be responsible for what is in his body.
The 33-year-old former world champion, who a year ago was seen as a great medal jumper at the Tokyo Olympics, says she still trains almost every day, but realizes that her career is over.
She tries to take care of herself and her family and hopes that one day she can return to the sport that has shaped her life, perhaps as a coach.
– Right now, four years feels like a long time. I don’t really know where I am then, but I’ve decided not to get bitter, he says.
Also Mats Larsson he’s disappointed in the way the case has been handled. He admits that it was a mistake not to send the documents on time, but believes that the court should have been able to accept a delay of one day.
– Cas feels like a rigid organization, says Larsson and says he found out that the person he contacted was on vacation for three weeks on weekends. You do not think this should prevent another employee from contacting RIN.
Larsson believes that Huddinge Laboratory did not follow protocol to the letter when analyzing Fransson’s doping test and that she should therefore have been acquitted. He realizes that this will not be the case.
– No, it seems we have reached the end of the road, says Larsson.
