Olympic occasion rider Tine Magnus has categorically denied ever doping after her Paris 2024 experience Dia Van Het Lichterveld Z examined optimistic for a banned substance at this summer time’s Video games.
The optimistic take a look at implies that the Belgian eventing staff, which had completed fourth on the Paris Olympic Video games, has been disqualified.
An FEI discover launched publicly yesterday (4 September) acknowledged that the horse, a 10-year-old mare owned by Kris van Vaerenbergh, examined optimistic for trazodone on the Olympics. Trazodone is listed as an anti-depressant on the FEI’s prohibited substances record.
An announcement from the FEI stated that the rider has been provisionally suspended from the date of notification (3 September) “till the FEI Tribunal renders its resolution”. The horse has additionally been provisionally suspended for 2 months, from the date of the notification.
“An antagonistic analytical discovering from one staff member in the course of the Olympic Video games will result in the disqualification of the entire staff. Therefore, staff Belgium will likely be disqualified from the eventing staff competitors of the Paris Olympic Video games,” stated the FEI assertion.
In a press release as we speak (5 September), Tine stated she is “a sportswoman who values honesty” and “will do all the things” she will be able to to show her innocence.
“It was with the best shock and disappointment that I discovered of a optimistic doping consequence from my horse Dia in the course of the Olympic Video games,” she stated.
“Along with the KBRSF [Royal Belgian Equestrian Federation] and my staff, we are going to search for the reason for this consequence, which can be very shocking to me.
“I guarantee you that I or anybody from my staff have by no means used any type of doping.”
She added that she “hopes on your help and belief”.
Belgian staff coach Kai-Steffen Meier stated: “For us as a staff, it’s clearly devastating information, and for the entire staff that was concerned on this journey to Paris, and the end in Paris.
“We have been very certain that we have been very cautious, and that with all meals and dietary supplements, we had all the things examined earlier than. So in the meanwhile we merely can not clarify the place contamination may have occurred. In order that’s our factor now, to resolve that thriller, for us to say, ‘Okay, what occurred? How did this horse take a look at optimistic, and why?’ And to attempt to work along with the FEI and with the vets to search out the explanation for that.”
He added: “I can not actually say what [could have happened], and if it might be someplace within the manufacturing strategy of any dietary supplements, or it comes out of the identical manufacturing facility, or no matter.
“So it’s a little bit bit like in the meanwhile like discovering the needle within the haystack to say, ‘Okay, what occurred? Why is it like it’s now?’ We are going to attempt to work that out. And the vet staff is studying into the scenario to search out the reason for that.”
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