At the Games the first case of doping, which does not exist

First the clamor for the positive for doping combined with the discouragement of the athlete who sees his dream of participating in the championships destroyed Olympic Gamesthen the appeals, the hearing, finally the reconsideration by the body that had suspended her, the I swim Italythe Italian anti-doping agency. Rebecca Passler is rehabilitated, can return to the bosom of national team and, therefore, participation in Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games.

The National Court of Appeal of Nado Italy accepted the 24-year-old’s appeal South Tyrolean biathlete after she had been suspended, and therefore excluded from the Games, on 2 February by Nado Italia following the positive test letrozolo following a control out of competition carried out on January 26th in Anterselva.

The prohibited substance found in urine

Letrozole is included among the prohibited substances fromWorld Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) and falls into category S4.1, i.e. dei hormonal and metabolic modulators. Nado Italia has readmitted Rebecca Passler for having recognized the ‘good smoke‘, or the apparent validity of the involuntary hiring or the unconscious contamination of the substance in question. Passler had appealed to the Ad Hoc Division on February 6 Court of Arbitration for Sport (TAS) at the Olympic venue with the request to suspend Nado Italia’s provision of four days earlier. Rebecca, through her lawyers, had appealed against Nado Italia, Wada, Italian Winter Sports Federation (Fisi), International Olympic Committee (IOC), International Biathlon Union (IBU) e Italian National Olympic Committee (CONI). After the hearing, the CAS panel said it “did not have jurisdiction to examine” the matter.

Consider the doses of letrozole (substance found in anticancer drugs) present in athlete’s urine – 1.1 n,g/ml – and what was declared by the athlete, I swim Italy he considered partially rehabilitating Rebecca per i Games. In fact, the story will most likely end at National Anti-Doping Tribunal (Tna) with possible next degree the Lausanne Bag.

Nutella contamination

A contamination of their urine of Rebecca may have been the Nutella. According to what has been reconstructed, Rebecca, after returning from a competition, during a breakfast at home with mother Herlinde, used the same spoon to eat Nutella. It emerged that the mother, who is ill, is taking on as per medical prescriptionand letrozole-based drug of which Rebecca was never aware. There South Tyrolean biathlete she returned home on January 24th after taking part in the stage of World Cup in Nove Mesto in the Czech Republic. The following day he spent at the family home. On the morning of January 26, Rebecca underwent a out-of-competition doping control at the stadium biathlon in Anterselvatest which he then gave positive result for doping.

The return to the team and Rebecca’s statements

The blue biathlete will return to the team on Monday and, based on purely technical decisions by the technical director Klaus Hoellriglcould be used in women’s relay and in the mass start. “They were very difficult days. I always believed in my good faith”, said Rebecca who then thanked “all those who helped me, from the lawyers who followed my situation, to the Italian Winter Sports Federationto my family and friends, now I can finally go back to focusing 100% on biathlon“.