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Fighting an anti-doping finding
The short story In order to fully understand everything that has happened, I strongly encourage you to read the full article below, but this is a very short summary of what I want to say. On 28th J…
A severe flare up of my long-standing asthma caused difficulty breathing in 2020, a serious concussion wiped out my 2021 season and Olympic hopes, and just as I was raring to go in 2022, Covid-19 struck me for the first time which led to pericarditis (inflammation of the lining of the heart) and a number of associated health issues. Mario Thevis, an expert at the forefront of anti-doping research, published a paper in 2021 specifically warning about pharmacokinetic outliers 10, “drugs with particularly long elimination periods and corresponding detection windows” (such as chlortalidone) and the care and attention that must be paid to low level positives to ensure that athletes are not unfairly penalised. However, when I am trying to locate a contaminant far smaller than a single grain of sugar that was consumed over three months ago (remembering that my life and future rests on it), UKAD implied that it is not reasonable for me to take 51 extra days to look for it (two thirds of the amount of time between my test and receiving the result).
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