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The international sports court CAS (Court of Arbitration for Sport) has announced its verdict in the Andrea Iannone doping case. The 31-year-old Italian’s career in MotoGP should be over for good.
Andrea Iannone has been banned by the FIM Motorcycle Federation since December 17, because the banned substance drostanolone, an anabolic steroid, was detected in his urine sample from the Sepang GP on November 3, 2019 Although his defense tried to support the thesis of an unwanted admission on the consumption of a steak in Asia with a hair sample, the “International Disciplinary Tribunal of the FIM” banned it in the first instance on March 31 for 18 months – and so on until June 16. 2021.
However, Aprilia held on to the 2016 Spielberg winner, who put her hopes in the hearing before CAS’s International Court of Justice. After a long wait, this only took place on October 15. A judgment should be rendered in mid-November, it was said then.
On November 10, CAS officially announced: The ban on the 31-year-old Italian was not lowered, but rather extended to four years, as requested by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA).
According to the CAS, Iannone and the experts summoned by his defense have not been able to demonstrate exactly what type of meat he consumed, or its origin. Furthermore, there is no clear evidence that the problem of drostanolone contamination of meat exists in Malaysia. Therefore, the CAS Panel found that an anti-doping rule violation had been committed.
Even if Iannone claimed at the hearing that he was innocent and that there was no incentive for doping, these factors are not enough to show that the violation was unintentional. In the case of an unintentional violation, the maximum penalty would have been only two years.
The verdict went on to say: “The panel’s finding does not in itself exclude that Andrea Iannone’s anti-doping rule violation may be due to the consumption of meat contaminated with Drostanolone, but it does mean that Andrea Iannone was unable to provide convincing evidence that the offense that committed was not intentional. “
So there was the maximum sentence of four years required by the AMA for Iannone. The suspension begins retrospectively on December 17, 2019. All results that Iannone has achieved since November 1, 2019 will also be revoked.
