When is AIU going to post the verdict? I don't know what the delay is but surely their tendency to take over a year in some cases is bad practice - if an athlete ends up being cleared then aren't they liable to getting sued for loss of earnings by missing important meets/championships for no reason?
Anyone know if Issam Asinga is eligible for indoor track? Was suspended before World meet, but never heard what has happened to his case. I know he protested his suspension.
"AIU BANS SURINAME’S ASINGA FOR FOUR YEARS 27 MAY 2024, MONACO: Issamade Asinga – who contended his positive drug test was due to eating “recovery gummies” – will be stripped of his titles as South America’s double sprint champion and World Under-20 100-metre record-holder after being found guilty of an Anti-Doping Rule Violation (ADRV) and banned by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) for four years. The 19-year-old Surinamese was found to have breached the World Athletics Anti-Doping Rules (ADR 2.1) relating to the “Presence of a Prohibited Substance or its Metabolites or Markers in an Athlete’s Sample”. Asinga was provisionally suspended by the AIU last August after testing positive for metabolites of GW1516 in an out-of-competition test on 18 July. The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has listed GW1516 as a Prohibited Substance under the category S4 – Hormone and Metabolic Modulators – and it is a non-specified substance which is prohibited at all times. GW1516 modifies how the body metabolises fat. It was originally synthesised and evaluated for the treatment of obesity, diabetes and other disorders caused by metabolic problems but is now not approved for human use. WADA has advised of its health risks for athletes...."
Excellent news. But what a cheat, adding the dope to his "gummies" trying to fool AIU/DT.
Also nice statement from the AIU Chair: "All explanations based on contamination must be thoroughly scrutinised and not just blindly accepted." Too bad for the dopers and their apologists here, rekrunner.
Excellent news. But what a cheat, adding the dope to his "gummies" trying to fool AIU/DT.
Also nice statement from the AIU Chair: "All explanations based on contamination must be thoroughly scrutinised and not just blindly accepted." Too bad for the dopers and their apologists here, rekrunner.
I feel like you could justify adding 2 years for the attempt to deceive, but maybe they couldn’t prove it. Or maybe he was taking the juiced-up gummies and it was an intentional contamination.
Issam made a statement on Instagram. Long story short, he’s claiming he was gifted gatorade gummies that were contaminated with GW1516. Not really related but Connor Burns seems to be defending Issam in the comments. To me, it seems like another Shelburrito case.
Excellent news. But what a cheat, adding the dope to his "gummies" trying to fool AIU/DT.
Also nice statement from the AIU Chair: "All explanations based on contamination must be thoroughly scrutinised and not just blindly accepted." Too bad for the dopers and their apologists here, rekrunner.
I feel like you could justify adding 2 years for the attempt to deceive, but maybe they couldn’t prove it. Or maybe he was taking the juiced-up gummies and it was an intentional contamination.
Ya looks like tampering. A couple of more years would have been nice
Issam made a statement on Instagram. Long story short, he’s claiming he was gifted gatorade gummies that were contaminated with GW1516. Not really related but Connor Burns seems to be defending Issam in the comments. To me, it seems like another Shelburrito case.
I find it hard to believe. If you were gifted unsealed supplements that would be a wild move to ingest them.
Issam made a statement on Instagram. Long story short, he’s claiming he was gifted gatorade gummies that were contaminated with GW1516. Not really related but Connor Burns seems to be defending Issam in the comments. To me, it seems like another Shelburrito case.
Indeed. He's already pulling a Shelby and repeats his disproven lie. Same stubborn loser lawyer it seems, who now creatively switched from burritos to gummies.
“In making its decision, among other matters, the Disciplinary Tribunal took into account the fact that the Gatorade Recovery Gummies provided in unsealed containers by the athlete for testing contained significantly more GW1516 on the outside than on the inside, which practically excludes any contamination by raw ingredients during the manufacturing process; that the Gatorade Recovery Gummies were batch-tested by the ATHLETICS INTEGRITY UNIT, 1 1 ST FLOOR, 6 QUAI ANTOINE 1ER, MC 98007, MONACO 1 National Sanitation Foundation (NSF) and were credited with the NSF Certified for Sport certificate; and that a sealed jar of Gatorade Recovery Gummies, from the exact same batch taken by Asinga, tested negative by the Lausanne anti-doping laboratory.”
Is A&M going to keep letting him hang around? The whole things just stinks. We're they just hoping he would be cleared? Now that he hasn't, what? They got egg all over they faces.
It just goes to show how ugly doping can get. First he was caught using GW1516, which is not approved for human use and is a carcinogen. Then Asinga tampered with two unsealed bottles of the same gummy bear product to try to fake his contamination argument. Hence the 4 year ban.
It just goes to show how ugly doping can get. First he was caught using GW1516, which is not approved for human use and is a carcinogen. Then Asinga tampered with two unsealed bottles of the same gummy bear product to try to fake his contamination argument. Hence the 4 year ban.
Considering he's currently suing Gatorade/PepsiCo, do you honestly think he contaminated the remaining bottles? I don't think he's trying to be in debt forever and/or go to jail.
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