'They messed up': Bol drugs 'disgrace' shredded

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The lawyer for Peter Bol has labelled the news that the Olympic prima is inactive being investigated for doping violations a "disgrace".

Bol has ever maintained his innocence, and that appeared to beryllium confirmed connected Tuesday with quality his B-sample did not lucifer his A-sample. His provisional suspension has present been lifted.

But Sport Integrity Australia and Athletics Australia confirmed precocious connected Tuesday that the 28-year-old's B-sample produced an "atypical finding" (ATF).

"An ATF is not the aforesaid arsenic a antagonistic trial result. An ATF is simply a study from a WADA-accredited laboratory which requires further investigation," Sport Integrity Australia said successful a statement.

Speaking connected Nine's Today, Lawyer Paul Greene said the process is flawed.

"This full happening that Sport Integrity Australia released a connection fundamentally inactive trying to formed a unreality implicit him, it's a disgrace successful my opinion," helium said.

"Let's beryllium clear, an atypical uncovering is the aforesaid arsenic a antagonistic uncovering successful 1 precise important respect. Neither 1 provides immoderate grounds that Peter did thing wrong.

"That's what everyone needs to understand."

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Greene pointed retired that an ATF is simply a comparatively predominant occurrence.

"There are galore atypical findings each time successful the anti-doping world," helium explained.

"They don't mean thing arsenic it relates to really being charged with an anti-doping regularisation violation. It means thing atypical oregon not wholly wrong the norm."

He said Bol had not been fixed immoderate laboratory documents to let him to explicate what mightiness person caused the ATF.

"Peter is innocent. He ne'er took anything. They tin accidental immoderate they want. They person nary grounds that helium did thing wrong," helium said.

"And they are ne'er going to get immoderate grounds due to the fact that helium didn't. So I don't attraction what they say."

Greene said Bol had been severely fto down by the full process.

"The anti-doping satellite is looking aft their ain interests. They are expected to look aft the interests of athletes.

"I person done this worldly for astir 20 years. They don't look aft the interests of the athletes. They volition ellipse the wagons and support their ain each time. That's what they are doing here.

"Let's beryllium clear. They are the ones that leaked this erstwhile it ne'er should person been leaked. I americium not definite who it was, whether it was Sport Integrity Australia oregon Athletics Australia. It doesn't substance from our perspective. It ne'er should person been leaked, ne'er should person been released.

"All they should person said was the B did not corroborate the A. That's it. There's thing else. There is nary grounds that helium did thing wrong. That connection is failing to admit that they messed up the full happening from the beginning. They are intelligibly trying to screen their tracks."

Greene confirmed helium and Bol were yet to determine if they'll instrumentality ineligible enactment implicit the matter, though helium conceded the 28-year-old's absorption needed to beryllium connected the way successful the lead-up to Paris successful 2024.

"What an atypical uncovering does is it triggers further testing. Nothing more. That's each an atypical uncovering usually does," helium said.

"Normally an jock doesn't adjacent cognize they person an atypical finding. They whitethorn ne'er know, and surely it's not public. There are atypical findings each day, wherever they spell and bash much people testing. That's it. So, the information that they proceed to conscionable publically person this lawsuit earlier each of Australia is conscionable sad, really."

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