tigers_eye
Well-Known Member
Just read this in my BSJA magazine - surely the FEI needs to find a way to test and arbitrate doping cases more quickly? I know that it would be likened to guilty until proven innocent, but surely if an initial test was positive the medals should be awarded with this in mind, then if B samples and/or a hearing prved otherwise then they should be redistributed? Athens was a total fiasco and a disgrace to the sport, but it seems not much has changed.
Perhaps the way to go is to in fact change the amounts allowed of certain substances, so that the thresholds only came into play if there was a clear case of a horse having been deliberately medicated to improve performance, and that residual amounts found "by accident" - ie. cross contamination from buckets, or dope given 4 weeks earlier, don't hit that level, as that seems to be the most frequent explanation?
The magazine said that a fench team rider/horse was disqualified following a positive result and that the British team have been promoted as a result, and will receive their medlas "in the near future".
Perhaps the way to go is to in fact change the amounts allowed of certain substances, so that the thresholds only came into play if there was a clear case of a horse having been deliberately medicated to improve performance, and that residual amounts found "by accident" - ie. cross contamination from buckets, or dope given 4 weeks earlier, don't hit that level, as that seems to be the most frequent explanation?
The magazine said that a fench team rider/horse was disqualified following a positive result and that the British team have been promoted as a result, and will receive their medlas "in the near future".