2024-05-30 10:55:38
The Brazilian athlete Thiago Braz, Olympic pole vault champion in 2016 and bronze within the Tokyo Video games in 2021, was suspended for 16 months for doping, which might deprive him of taking part within the Paris 2024 Olympics, the Unit introduced this Tuesday. of Athletics Integrity (AIU).
“The AIU suspended Thiago Braz for 16 months for the presence of ostarine, which the athlete claims to have consumed by meals dietary supplements that contained the prohibited substance,” the anti-doping physique indicated.
The protection of the 30-year-old Brazilian athlete indicated that he appealed the sanction earlier than the Court docket of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), within the hope that the physique “discards or additional reduces the sanction” and that on this method Braz can “take part.” freely” on the Paris Olympics (July 26-August 11).
“The results of the trial (…) was extraordinarily optimistic, particularly contemplating (…) that the applying of a four-year sanction was requested,” reads a press release revealed on the athlete’s official Instagram.
Thiago Braz was provisionally suspended by the AIU on July 28, 2023 after a optimistic take a look at on the Stockholm Diamond League assembly on July 2.
He can be banned from competing till November 27, 2024, for the reason that interval of the provisional suspension is taken under consideration when counting the 16 months of suspension.
Because of this Thiago Braz will initially miss the present season, by which the Paris Olympics are the spotlight, however he may very well be again from the start for the following one, the place the nice athletics occasion would be the Tokyo World Cup. in September 2025.
The AIU mentioned that an eventual attraction towards the 16-month punishment can be thought of to attempt to acquire an extended suspension.
He had requested a four-year sanction towards Braz, however the AIU disciplinary court docket (an unbiased physique) thought of that he had adopted the suggestions of his medical crew, which is why it decreed a shorter punishment than the one requested.
The AIU famous that ostarine is a product “typically used to extend muscle mass.”
Thiago Braz is without doubt one of the outstanding names in Latin American athletics lately, particularly for his two Olympic medals and the Olympic title he gained in his nation, within the Rio-2016 version.
He stood out from a really younger age, with a silver on the 2010 Singapore Youth Olympics and, above all, changing into junior world champion in 2012 in Barcelona.
After his third place on the Tokyo Video games, his principal worldwide podium was silver on the World Indoor Championships in Belgrade in 2022.
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