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broadsword

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FINA adds new rules to prevent bad behavior during medal ceremony
(Xinhua) 13:29, July 26, 2019

GWANGJU, South Korea, July 25 -- The international swimming governing body FINA has added new rules to its code of conduct to prevent bad behavior during medal-awarding ceremonies, a statement said on Thursday.

The governing body has attached an additional article to the FINA Code of Conduct, approved Tuesday in the South Korean city of Gwangju, where the 18th FINA World Championships is ongoing.

The new article, titled "Article 3 Rules of Conduct During the Competition," stipulates: "The competitors shall actively participate in the full conduct of the competition including victory ceremonies and, if applicable, presentations and/or press conferences."

"They shall strictly avoid any offensive or improper behavior towards the officials, the other competitors, the team members and/or the spectators during the entire conduct of the competition," it states.

"Any political, religious or discriminatory statement or behavior is strictly prohibited," the article adds.


The revised rules came after Duncan Scott of Britain, a co-bronze medalist, refused to step onto the podium during a medal-awarding ceremony for the men's 200m freestyle, where China's Olympic champion Sun Yang grabbed his second gold medal in the championships on Tuesday.

Mack Horton of Australia, a silver medalist, also distanced himself from the podium during the men's 400m freestyle medal ceremony on Sunday, when Sun won a gold medal ahead of Horton.
 

AssassinsMace

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I'm not surprised the people pointing the finger are hypocritically guilty as hell. After this revelation, Australian swimmer Cate Campbell was quoted saying this shows Australia is doing their job keeping their sport clean by preventing her from competing. No it doesn't. Shayna Jack is claiming she didn't know that she was injected with performance enhancing drugs. If she didn't do it that means someone else did meaning people in Australian swimming authorities, coaches, staff, team doctors, etc... are intentionally injecting banned substances into their swimmers without them even knowing it. That's tainted. A clean sport would mean don't have anything injected into your body yet apparently they do because you can't claim you didn't know a substance, legal or not, was in injected into your body unless that's what regularly happens to them to claim ignorance.
 

AssassinsMace

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I was watching this interview with this pundit on Australian TV before this identification of the illegal substance who was apparently a supporter of Horton's protest trying to make excuses how Jack could've accidently been exposed talking about innocent creams you buy in stores. Ligandrol is apparently a straight up muscle enhancer. It even tells you how long it will stay in a person's body after using it.
 

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I was watching this interview with this pundit on Australian TV before this identification of the illegal substance who was apparently a supporter of Horton's protest trying to make excuses how Jack could've accidently been exposed talking about innocent creams you buy in stores. Ligandrol is apparently a straight up muscle enhancer. It even tells you how long it will stay in a person's body after using it.
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And now the Australian media is in damage control, poor little girl got into trouble by accidentally having taken something contaminated with Ligandrol.
 

broadsword

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FINA executive director Cornel Marculescu said Shayna Jack is not alone in testing positive to a banned substance
The executive director of FINA has revealed Aussie Shayna Jack is not the only athlete the sport is looking at in regards to a positive drug tests.

Reuters
ReutersJULY 28, 20198:33PM

Swimming Australia ‘bitterly disappointed’ after banned substance finding

Swimming Australia says it's 'bitterly' disappointed and embarrassed after Shayna Jack tested positive to a banned subst...
FINA boss Cornel Marculescu has dropped a bombshell that Shayna Jack isn’t the only swimmer to be caught out with a positive drug test.

After speaking about the Mack Horton protests, the executive director of swimming’s governing body dropped the incredible bombshell.

The Romanian also told reporters that it was FINA’s policy to not discuss ongoing doping cases until a decision had been reached and said the “super transparent” governing body was at the forefront of the anti-doping fight.

Marculescu’s comments came in the wake of Jack’s admission that she had tested positive for a banned substance late last month.

Marculescu said FINA did not comment on Jack’s positive test because the final decision had not been reached.

He also said Jack was “ … not the only one, there are another two. But we need to finish the case.”

Marculescu said the other two cases were not Australian athletes but he gave no further details and did not specify whether they were related to the world championships.



He also spoke about Horton’s protest which stunned the early days of the World Swimming Championship

He said Horton’s issue with Sun Yang is “probably more a personal issue than a doping issue”.

He said he was sceptical about Horton’s podium protest against Sun when he addressed reporters on the final day of the world championships in South Korea.

“It’s more, ‘You beat me, I must beat you somehow,’” Marculescu said, adding that the swimmers may now be regretting their actions.

“Sometimes we make mistakes.” Silver medallist Horton sparked a week of acrimony when he refused to share the podium with Sun after the Chinese star won the 400m freestyle gold medal, later getting an ovation from fellow swimmers at the athletes village. FINA’s doping panel cleared triple Olympic champion Sun of a doping offence in January but the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) is appealing the case at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in September.

Horton was reportedly frustrated that Sun, who also served a three-month suspension for doping in 2014, was allowed to compete in those circumstances.

“The doping panel is a totally independent body. They decided, you’ve seen the decision and reasons,” said Marculescu. “Whatever CAS decides we need to accept.”

Horton’s Sun Yang protest.
Horton’s Sun Yang protest.Source:Getty Images

British swimmer Duncan Scott later backed Horton by shunning Sunon the podium after the 200m freestyle.

The protests were “unfortunate” and the incidents had brought the sport “into disrepute”, said Marculescu.

He warned swimmers could be stripped of their medals for similar serious deviations from FINA regulations in the future as it was “part of the sanction”.
 

localizer

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The substance is Ligandrol which is experimental. Guess they didn't think it would show up on the assays.

She said it could be due to her "contaminated" supplements.

Who the hell contaminates supplements with state of the art experimental drugs that's not even in the market?
 
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