Posted on 08/17/2021 10:48:28 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
It's a case of an athlete who submitted regularly to the Athlete Biological Passport, who was outspoken against doping, but whose career has now ended because of the ban.
Unfortunately for Compton, the test determined the source was exogenous. Also unfortunately for Compton, the news of the CIR result came five months after she'd given the sample, making it highly unlikely she could provide proof it came from a contaminated supplement or food.
Compton told Cyclingnews she suspected some beef she'd had for dinner the night before the doping control was to blame. The meat was not organic and, in the US, the FDA allows ranchers to implant their cattle with a wide range of hormones, including testosterone, to promote growth provided the levels of the hormones are "below a safe level" when the cows are slaughtered.
However, even the top female cyclo-cross racers don't earn as much as an athletics champion like Lawson and, after spending $8,000 on lawyers to fight the case, Compton's partner Mark Legg said: "We couldn’t keep throwing money at a hopeless situation".
...researchers at the Institute of Forensic Medicine at the University Hospital of Cologne tracked a dozen people who were "administered small amounts of various anabolic substances ... via the skin using a carrier substance - by briefly touching the hand, neck or arm". Despite the "extremely small doses", the steroids could be detected 15 days later.
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Simple, she must have been tested multiple times since that one test 5 months ago. Were all of the other tests negative? Then she shouldn’t be facing a lifetime ban from the sport.
Professional sports are stupid.
Sounds like the perfect set-up. Send out agents coated with various banned substances to mingle and fraternize with foreign athletes.
We all know here that a mere speck of carfentanil will kill you, and if these tests are as sensitive as they say, any professional athlete should be in a hazmat suit with all food first sent to a lab.
WHO BENEFITS from her getting setup if that’s what what happened? Who are her closest competitors?
Busted. Call the wambulance.
I’d like to see comparable leagues in every sport and competition where there are no drug screenings at all.
Let ‘em all ‘roid up and let’s see what transpires!
Lol. They ride bicycles.
Teach her to eat at Subway. She’s lucky to have failed the testing. If she kept eating Subway, she’d have ended up an angry mannish lesbian with pink hair.
Not in Cycling.
Not in Cycling.
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