Disgraced swimmer Shayna Jack, 20, has arrived to face anti-doping officials in Brisbane in a bid to explain how a banned anabolic agent was found in her system in an out-of-competition random drug test.
Jack arrived at Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority about 12pm on Friday alongside her mother and lawyer to fight her innocence after testing positive for Ligandrol, a banned muscle growth agent, at a swim camp ahead of the world championships in South Korea.
Jack faces a four-year ban from competition – the standard penalty for a doping violation involving anabolic agents such as Ligandrol.
Jack will argue she didn’t knowingly take the drug. If she can prove her argument to the ASADA, the length of ban might be reduced.
She has already been banned from the rich International Swimming League as she prepares to fight her case.
It is the first time she has appeared in public since the doping scandal broke. She is expected to produce a diary as evidence as to what supplements she has taken recently.
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On Wednesday, Jack’s manager Philip Stoneman said the swimmer won’t contest the presence of the banned drug in her system.
“I don’t think this is a question of Shayna denying there is something in her body,” Stoneman said.
“What she is doing is fighting her innocence because it shouldn’t be in there and she doesn’t know how it got in there.”
More to come.
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