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“Were intimate!” Sex to blame for positive doping test?
Many competitive athletes swear by sex as doping before competitions - but for former European Ironman champion Imogen Carlina Simmonds, it backfired. The 31-year-old Swiss athlete even tested positive after the intimate relationship.
Kronen Zeitung als bevorzugte Google-Quelle hinzufügen "I was horrified and devastated," wrote Simmonds on Wednesday when she received the news of the positive doping test.
The Swiss athlete compared the amount found in her body to a "pinch of salt thrown into an Olympic-sized swimming pool that would have had no performance-enhancing benefit for me". But how did it come about that she was tested with the banned substance Ligandrol?
Sex before and after
For Simmonds, the answer is obvious! She had sex! The Swiss athlete: "Both on the day of my doping test and the day before, my partner and I were intimate with each other. When I received the news, I immediately consulted an experienced lawyer. Through research, it turned out that, unbeknownst to me, my long-term partner had been taking Ligandrol at the time of the positive test to improve his personal physique."
She has now also consulted external experts, as she is not the first athlete to whom something like this has happened. The sex theory is also backed up by hair samples: Hers was negative, his was positive! "The sample confirmed that I had never taken Ligandrol, whereas my partner had done so during the period in question," says Simmonds.
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