Madrid, Dec 16 (EFE) .- The Mauritian badminton player Kate Jessica Foo Kune, four times and current African badminton champion, has been sanctioned with a two-year suspension for doping by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (TAS), to which recurred after testing positive in the 2019 continental championship, in which she was second.
During that competition, held in Nigeria, Kune tested positive for the anabolic androgenic steroid ‘1-androstenedione’. The disciplinary court of the World Federation considered that the player had not been responsible for the consumption of that prohibited substance and did not impose any sanction, although it annulled her result.
The Federation itself then took the case to CAS, considering that Kune had not proven, as alleged, that someone had intentionally contaminated his water bottle with the doping substance.
The CAS has estimated this argument and “rejects the theory that there was sabotage”, for which it has imposed a two-year suspension on the player, starting on December 15, 2020.
Kune was the flag bearer of the Mauritius team at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games and in that same year she reached 63rd place in the world ranking, her best ranking. EFE
