Norway disqualified and Lose Olympic Showjumping Bronze

Does GB now meet it's lottery funding target? If this decision had been made earlier would show jumping have been given more cash?
 
Thanks for posting - saved me doing so! Was busy doing Xmasy jobs.

I feel sorry for the Norwegian team - it was such a huge thing for them to have won bronze and I think it unlikely that young Mr Hansen gained any advantage from the little trace of the banned substance.
 
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Shame, should have used Courtney K-D's lawyer and got off scott free.

The FEI tribunal have one rule for the USA and a completely different outlook for the rest of the world. Peter A H was honest and up front about the whole thing. You would have thought that should have been taken into account. Yet C K-D put the blame on everyone but herself through a barrage of lies and came up smelling of roses. The whole thing stinks.

Norway, P AH and all connections do not deserve this at all. And all concerned have acted like the true sportsmen and women they are with dignity, not pushing the blame from a to b and back again.
 
yeah i heard that already forester as well as the fact that the norwegian federation are going to throw the book at him as well.
and you are not wrong either Cefyl, i just dont understand it at all.
 
like at least one other of the positive tests, there was the merest trace found of a common easily transferable substance with multiple uses. Toni andre hansen doesnt even use equi block, and he maintained the horse had tested due to the transdermal properties of the substance from a contaminated source. they thought possibly a rug sprayed with anti chew (which does indeed contain trces of capsaicum). However as the FEI now have a zero tolerance attitude (to bring them in line with WADA guidelines (written for humans not horses) they have disqualified him and therefore the whole team, although in their own statement the FEI found no evidence of willful malpractice. the fact that 4 horses from only 15 initially tested came up as positive does not seem to have persuaded that there might indeed have been a contaminant in sha tin. like people not all the horses either would have been affected, nor would they be affected at the same rate, different skins absorbing the material at different rates.
if the test wasa truly random sample then nearly a third of horses there were likely to test in a similarly positive manner and this did not set alarm bells ringing nor persuade the FEI to investigate further.
sadly for toni andre hansen in norway doping in sport in a jail offence which is why the zero tolerance rule will put him in prison despite the miniscule amount shown up in the test, his exemplary previous record the FEI's own admission that this substance is common and contained in many substances used in a therapeutic manner.
there is absolutely no evidence that the horse was 'drugged' to improve performance. in fact like in at least one other case the amount found (from a test within hours if not minutes of competing) suggests quite the opposite as the nature of this agent if used to 'hypersensitise' requires it to be applied immediately prior to competition which lends one to believe more than a trace would have been found if that were the case.
the horse by the way is a white grey who was clipped so close it looked pink and consequently any inflamation from bangs bruises or any other sort of abuse would have been clearly visible.
the whole thing is a joke, particularly as the american dressage rider mentioned above, tested positive also and was treated a lot less harshly.
people ought to be a bit careful about saying anyone 'drugged' a horse. even the FEI's own statement doesnt say that and in fact they have just anouced a new commitee to work with WADA and re assess the rules that apply to horses in the wake of the happenings at the olympics. i believe that thresh hold limits will be reintroduced but unfortunately it will be too late for Toni and his connections.
 
yr welcome. as has been mentioned in the other cases, there are many flaws but it seems to me 'zero tolerance' absolves the FEI from a performance as 'fauntless' as that demanded from their athletes.
 
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