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The National Sports Board upheld Jenny Fransson’s four-year suspension sentence.
His representative, Mats Larsson, is not surprised, but criticizes the level of detail on the ground.
-I don’t understand that they need two weeks to write it, I would have done it in a coffee break, he says.
Olympic bronze medalist Jenny Fransson tested positive for the anabolic steroid methyltestosterone in February.
The doping board sentenced the 33-year-old to a four-year suspension in June, the most severe punishment possible.
“He taught me a new word today: judicial murder,” Fransson himself wrote then on Instagram.
Fransson has always asserted his innocence and appealed the verdict to the National Sports Board. She and her representative, physicist Mats Larsson, have focused on the testing procedure, which he believes did not follow the protocol for how to analyze the test.
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– There is only one component, and that is the lab result. It cannot be shown that these people bought substances or that sports partners should have suspected something. But it’s just the lab results, Larsson said after the June verdict.
But the appeal to the National Sports Board had no effect. Today, the Swedish highest court announced that the verdict remains unanimous.
“Overall, the research presented by Jenny Fransson does not provide sufficient support for it to be considered that there has been a deviation from the international WADA standard. Therefore, Jenny Fransson’s doping test is proven to contain metabolites to methyltestosterone. “, write RIN on your decision.
Jenny Fransson is suspended until January 27, 2024.
“Jenny is not surprised”
Mats Larsson spoke briefly with Jenny Fransson after the verdict.
– She is not surprised either, but wants to appeal this to Cas, she says.
Larsson criticizes the fact that RIN in its decision did not go into the objections and arguments it presented.
– I was hoping that a higher instance would familiarize themselves with this, but it will be a very sketchy reasoning. I was hoping that they would accept my arguments and then let the doping commission’s arguments stand against them. But that won’t be the case at all, says Mats Larsson.
He says he will try to represent Jenny Fransson in Cas if she wants to appeal.
– It will be difficult to get up without legal experience, but we will have to put our scientific arguments to the test. We will see how much Wada mobilizes as a counterpart in that case.
Sportbladet is looking to the National Sports Board for comment.
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