An unusual but necessary warnings have been issued to elite athletes: a drug test fails to reduce the stands or risk of one-night. At a high-profile anti-doping summit, major sports lawyers and experts unpacked the growing trend of athletes being caught in doping scams due to intimate encounters, especially in the Tinder era where it is difficult to trace backback hookups.
Mark Hell, an independent chair in the case of anti-doping of Mark Howle, a top sports lawyer and tennis star Jannik Sinner, cited a notorious example: French tennis player Richard Gacket, who conducted a positive test for cocaine in 2009. Later, after kissing a woman in one night, that substance was successfully classified after arguing.
“Gaskets succeeded in giving him evidence to come and say that: ‘Yes, I am addicted to a cocaine. I use cocaine,” said Hell. “I kissed her in this nightclub. ‘ But with a night stand, how will you be able to find that person again? “
When Moderator Jackie Ottale asked if athletes need to get a phone number to save themselves at least, Hell did not do: “They may not have evidence that they need.”
The US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) chief Travis Tygart supported Hell’s approach, referring to the case of American boxer Virginia Fuchs in 2020. Fuchs conducted a positive test for restricted substances, but after proving the metamorphors, he was released after proving this from sexual broadcast through his male partner.
“I think we have kissed with the matters we have seen and see with whom the intimate relationships are with you,” Tiregart told the representatives at the Sports Resolution Conference.
He urged the World Doping Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) to work rapidly by increasing the threshold for tracers such as Clostabble and Osterine, compounds that can go through sexual contact. Without such reforms, athletes may have risk restricted to minuscule zodiac signs, they may not be intentional.
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“I think this is a very ridiculous world that we are expecting our athletes,” said Tygart. “This is why we are trying to change these rules to make it more appropriate and fair.”
He said, “Onus is always on athletes. We need to withdraw some of that responsibility as an anti-doping organizations. And I worry about how deliberately being cheated because we are spending so much time and resources on those cases that someone is ending to kiss someone at once.”
© The Indian Express Private Limited
