Saved by kisses: Olympian Clearing in Doping Case

Lausanne, Switzerland – French Olympic sharper Ysaora Thibus was released on Monday from a doping statement because the judges accepted that she was polluted by her American partner for a period of nine days kissed.

The pronunciation of the arbitration for Sport (CAS) reflected a verdict that cleaned up another French athlete with a similar defense in a doping -the Hennis player Richard Gasquet in the celebrated “Cocaine Kiss” case in 2009.

Cas said in the Thibus case that his jury panel has rejected a appeal from the World Anti-Doping Agency that she asked her to be banned for four years.

Thibus tested positively on the anabolic substance Ostarine in January 2024. She was later cleaned up by an international fence Federation Tribunal weeks before the Olympic Games in Paris, allowing them to compete there.

Wada challenged the explanation that Thibus was polluted “by kissing with her then partner, who had used a product that Ostarine contained without her knowledge,” Cas said.

The court said on Monday: “It was scientifically established that the intake of an Ostarine dose comparable to the dose taken by Mrs Thibus” would have left sufficient amounts of Ostarine in the saliva at the time to infect a person by kissing. “

Cumulative effect

The CAS judges “accepted that the then partner of Mrs. Thibus of 5 January 2024 took Ostarine and that there was contamination for nine days with a cumulative effect.”

At the time, her partner was Race Imboden, a double Olympic screens bronze medal winner for the United States.

Thibus, a silver medal winner for France in women’s team film at the Olympic Games in Tokyo, was fifth at that event in Paris and 28th in the individual foil of the women. – AP