Belgian claims contamination with Tooဣn Aerts pr𒅌esent as he fights a similar case
Shari Bossuyt holds a press conference to ad🐬dress her positive test for L🍰etrozole(Image credit: Getty Images)
168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Shari Bossuyt has protested her innocence after testing positive for Letrozole, suggesting she is a victim of contamination and likening her situation to a prisoner wro♕ngly convicted of murder.
Letrozole, which is primarily used♈ to treat estrogen-sensitive cancer in post-menopausal women, is a 'specified' substance, so does not come with an automatic provisional suspension from the UCI but would lead to a ban if an antiꦡ-doping rule violation is upheld.
Bossuyt, who last raced at 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Paris-Roubaix Femmes in early April, shortly after extending her contract with Canyon-SRA🐓M, held✨ a press conference in Zwevegem on Monday morning to address the matter.
"I've ended up in an unreal situation. I have never come into contact with Letrozole and have never consciously used it. This was even the first time I had heard of Letrozole," she said, aꦡccording to .
"It feels unfair," she added. "I compare it to being put in prison for murder when you didn't commit murder. That's what it feels liꦏke."
Bossuyt outlined her determination to fight the case and 🅠clear her name, starting with an expl♔anation to the French Anti-Doping Agency (AFLD) as to how the substance ended up in her system.
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"Everything indicates that we💦 are dealing with a contamination," she claimed.
"Hopefully we ca🐬n quickly provide clarity to the necessary authorities. And above all thaꩲt we can prove that we are not cheaters," she said.
The Toon Aerts connection
Toon Aerts was at the press conference alongsi🅠de Bossuyt's mother (Image credit: Getty Images)
In talking of a collective, Bossuyt was referring to Toon Aerts, her compatriot who is facing a two-year ban after testing positive for Letrozole last year. Aerts was present at Monday's p🧸ress conference, sitting beside Bossuyt's mother, and the pair are both managed by the same agent, Yannick Prevost.
Prevost has already worked extensively on offering a plausible explanation on the account of Aerts,🍸 who also protests his innocence, giving Bossuyt something of a head start in heဣr defence.
"We have been working on this file for a year," said Prevost on🌠 Monday. "It is verﷺy difficult to prove that it is a contamination from food.
"We are wal💝king a track, but we cannot yet make it concrete. What we can say i🌃s that Shari and Toon both tested positive after competitions in Normandy, in Flamanville to be precise.
"Letrozole is ꦛused for the fertilization of cows and sheep. That is a relatively new technique. It is currently a hypothesis that we cannot yet substantiate. Because the food industry does not yet test for Letrozole."
Prevost called on the UCI a𓄧nd WADA to ♔investigate the case as he insisted: "Shari and Toon are not dopers users, but victims."
Patrick is a freelance sports writer and editor. He’s an NCTJ-acc🌱redited journalist with a bachelor’s degree in modern languages (French and Spanish). Patrick worked full-time at Cyclingnews for eight years between 2015 an🐬d 2023, latterly as Deputy Editor.
