In a situation that illustrates the prospective perils of self representation, the strict liability of anti doping offenses as well as an athlete’s burden to introduce exculpatory evidence after a doping infraction is established, reasons for judgement were published by the UK’s national Camiseta Rangers FC Anti Doping Panel handing a us boxer a 4 year suspension.
In the recent situation (UK Anti Doping v. Ryan Martin) Martin tested positive for the existence of the prohibited substances androsterone and etiocholanone (metabolites of testosterone) complying with an in-competition test, after his bout against Josh Taylor in Glasgow on 3 November 2018.
At the time Martin was Camiseta Olympique Marseille subject to the British Boxing Board of Control’s (“BBBC”) oversight who regulated the bout as well as at the exact same time was a participant in the WCB’s ‘clean boxing program’ which utilizes the Voluntary Anti Doping association (“VADA”) as their privately hired anti doping testing agency. The BBBC embrace UKADR who provide UK Anti Doping (“UKAD”) obligation for medication testing as well as results management.
Interestingly the UKAD’s preliminary analysis of Martin’s sample returned a unfavorable result nevertheless after discovering that VADA testing exposed prohibited substances UKAD conducted further analysis which exposed the positive results.
The WCB handed Martin a 6 month suspension under their ‘clean boxing program’.
UKAD were not as lenient Camiseta UNAM Pumas as well as sought a 4 year ban. Martin was eventually self represented at the hearing. He admitted that the sample was positive for a doping infraction nevertheless he suggested a tainted supplement was to blame. He called no evidence to support this suggestion. eventually the Panel discovered that the common 4 year ban was warranted as well as Martin did not discharge any type of of the requirements to enable a reduced suspension. In reaching this result the Panel provided the complying with reasons:
“As has been made crystal remove in a number of cases…an athlete who desires to establish that he acted inadvertently bears the burden of showing, in the very first place, exactly how the Prohibited compound went into his system. He has to discharge such a burden on a balance of probabilities, but, save in outstanding cases, a bare protestation of innocence or assertion that it must have been something to do with some supplement he had taken is unlikely to be sufficient.
Bearing in mind exactly how bit info Mr. Martin has provided to UKAD or submitted to us as to the possible source of the Prohibited Substance, notwithstanding the many chances he has been provided to supply info as well as evidence, we discover that Mr. Martin has not satisfied us that it is more likely than not that a person or more supplements were indeed the means of ingestion”
The full judgement can be discovered right here – UKAD v Martin
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