Olympic fencer contaminated by kissing partner is cleared of doping

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Lausanne, Switzerland — French Olympic fencer Ysaora Thibus was cleared of a doping allegation Monday due to the fact that the judges accepted she was contaminated by kissing her American spouse implicit a play of 9 days.

The Court of Arbitration for Sport ruling echoed a verdict clearing different French jock with a akin defence successful a doping allegation — tennis subordinate Richard Gasquet successful the celebrated "cocaine kiss" lawsuit successful 2009.

CAS said successful the Thibus lawsuit its judging sheet dismissed an entreaty by the World Anti-Doping Agency, which asked for her to beryllium banned for 4 years.

Thibus tested affirmative for the anabolic substance ostarine successful January 2024. She was aboriginal cleared by an International Fencing Federation tribunal weeks earlier the Paris Olympics, which fto her vie there.

WADA challenged the mentation that Thibus was contaminated "through kissing with her past partner, who had been utilizing a merchandise containing ostarine without her knowledge," CAS said.

The tribunal said Monday "it is scientifically established that the intake of an ostarine dose akin to the dose ingested by Ms Thibus' past spouse would person near capable amounts of ostarine successful the saliva to contaminate a idiosyncratic done kissing."

The CAS judges "accepted that Ms. Thibus' then-partner was taking ostarine from Jan. 5, 2024, and that determination was contamination implicit 9 days with a cumulative effect."

Her spouse astatine the clip was Race Imboden, a two-time Olympic fencing bronze medalist for the United States.

Thibus, a metallic medalist for France successful women's squad foil astatine the Tokyo Olympics, placed 5th astatine that lawsuit successful Paris and 28th successful the women's idiosyncratic foil.

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