WADA lab errors falsely accused athletes of doping

[ESPN June 23, 2011]………

“Egyptian soccer star Hossam Ghaly and an American female marathon runner were falsely suspected of doping because of a Malaysian laboratory’s mistakes”

“The American runner, who was not identified, avoided a ban….The lab failed to consider the possible effects of a birth control pill……”

“Ghaly was among three Middle East-based players suspended after the lab in Penang wrongly reported positive tests for the steroid nandrolone. He challenged the analysis but served a one-month ban before his innocence was proved…..”

“Two soccer players in the United Arab Emirates, Samir Ibrahim Ali Hassan and Hassan Tir, served eight-month bans last year before…..cleared their names.”

“In a separate CAS verdict last year, Hassan was awarded $11,900 in legal costs from the UAE anti-doping authority, the report said.”

“CAS ruling said—-“….But for the initiatives of the athletes, and the investigations of other laboratories, the errors would not have been unmasked and the athletes’ careers interrupted, if not terminated.”

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Drug use and drug testing are a sham and an scam.

Just one more piece of proof of same. Athletes continue to get accused as this story is solely about a lucky few that somehow

managed to get the help necessary to prove the test results were bogus, and then lucked out and got a CAS panel that was willing to go with the data rather than turn a blind eye.

But obviously they weren’t lucky enough to get more than a blurb about their innocence compared to the standard hoopla media typically will engage in about an athlete’s supposedly “positive” test accusing them of doping. A bell that’s very difficult to un-ring.

Meanwhile, the labs get paid, the lab directors get paid, and the people designing these “fool proof” tests get paid.

Follow the money. Drug use and drug testing are a sham and an scam.