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Today’s announcement from the National Sports Board was expected for Mats Larsson, a physics professor at Stockholm University.
-It’s a certain disappointment but I wasn’t very hopeful, I can’t say that, he says.
Jenny Fransson will now take the case to the Cas sports arbitration court.
– Jenny wants to take this to the next level, and it will be interesting to see how Wada (the international anti-doping agency) will react. If they are behind the Stockholm Laboratory, which is not one of the best laboratories but a B-team among doping laboratories, it will be very difficult, says Larsson.
– But it depends on how Wada looks at this.
That was in january that Jenny Fransson tested positive for the anabolic steroid methyltestosterone, a synthetically produced testosterone that for several years is no longer found in any drug sold in Sweden.
The former Olympic bronze and wrestling World Cup gold medalist denied deliberately taking banned substances to enhance performance and suspected someone had sabotaged her by placing the preparation in something she ate or drank.
When Test B also came back positive, Fransson was permanently removed from the Olympic team for the Tokyo games, which were postponed until 2021, before the Swedish Sports Confederation’s doping board announced in June the harshest possible sentence. : a four-year suspension.
“Today he taught me a new word: murder of justice,” Fransson wrote on Instagram after the message.
According to Mats Larsson For example, the doping laboratory did not follow the protocols correctly when it was determined that the samples were positive and that the analysis may have been affected by so-called chemical noise.
The measurement was unreliable, he says and now claims that the working methods at the doping lab in Stockholm are old, even though it meets Wada’s requirements.
– It is clear that modernization is needed. Had he been present at the National Sports Board negotiations, it would have been obvious that there is a form of conflict within the National Sports Board. They belong to the sports movement and the doping laboratory is an important part of it. Because if you are going to attract big international competitions in Sweden, of course it is an advantage to have a doping laboratory.
Larsson develops:
– Let’s say Jenny had been acquitted, then in all probability Wada had appealed to Cas. Then the National Sports Board would have had to bear the economic costs that it had involved. They would also have had to hire a high-level lawyer who costs a lot of money. Then it is easier to confirm the verdict of the Doping Board and let Jenny take the case to Cas himself.
– But I do not intend to dedicate myself to reforming the Swedish doping system, it is a huge job. But this is the specific case that we are moving forward with. It will be interesting to see how Wada will hold up in this case.
How did Jenny Franssons react to today’s message?
– I only spoke to her briefly and asked if she could bring this up with the appeal, and she thought she could.
Was I disappointed?
– She wasn’t particularly surprised. It cannot be said that it was.
DN is looking to RIN and the doping lab for comment.
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