Swimmer to request reduced suspension
Associated Press
August 4, 2008
LOS ANGELES – Swimmer Jessica Hardy will try to have her possible two-year suspension “reduced substantially” after a failed drug test cost her a spot on the U.S. Olympic team.
The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency said Friday the 21-year-old sprinter had withdrawn from the team nearly a month after she tested positive for a low level of clenbuterol, a prohibited anabolic agent, at the Olympic trials.
“She accepts the fact that the testing was properly done and the results properly reported,” her lawyer, Howard Jacobs, said in a statement released Friday night.
He said investigations were trying to determine the source of the clenbuterol.
“Jessica did not knowingly or intentionally take any banned substances,” Jacobs said. He noted that Hardy has cooperated fully with USADA since she was informed July 21 of her positive test.
Swimmer to request reduced suspension
Associated Press
August 4, 2008
LOS ANGELES – Swimmer Jessica Hardy will try to have her possible two-year suspension “reduced substantially” after a failed drug test cost her a spot on the U.S. Olympic team.
The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency said Friday the 21-year-old sprinter had withdrawn from the team nearly a month after she tested positive for a low level of clenbuterol, a prohibited anabolic agent, at the Olympic trials.
“She accepts the fact that the testing was properly done and the results properly reported,” her lawyer, Howard Jacobs, said in a statement released Friday night.
He said investigations were trying to determine the source of the clenbuterol.
“Jessica did not knowingly or intentionally take any banned substances,” Jacobs said. He noted that Hardy has cooperated fully with USADA since she was informed July 21 of her positive test.
