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Cleared MacLeod lashes out at doping authorities
[SIZE=-1]Scotsman, United Kingdom - 4 minutes ago[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Scott MacLeod's test was on 25 January at Murrayfield. There was a positive reading for terbutaline, and a high T/E level (the ratio of testosterone to epitestosterone). High T/E levels can come about through doping, but a test almost two years earlier had already revealed that MacLeod had a high T/E level which might occur naturally.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]In February a judicial committee appointed by the Scottish Rugby Union found that MacLeod, who was known to take treatment for asthma, had not filled in the form required to be allowed to use the inhaler which had produced the terbutaline ruling. The committee ruled that the player had violated the anti-doping rules and gave him a formal warning, but allowed him to resume playing. Research into the T/E finding, meanwhile, continued.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]UK Sport, having analysed five samples from MacLeod, decided in September that there was a case to answer. Backed by some research done by his agent into a previous case, MacLeod suggested his acute alcohol ingestion on the night before the test could have produced the high reading. Last Thursday, UK Sport wrote to the SRU accepting that was "more likely than not" the correct reason for the finding. The SRU then referred the matter to a review panel of three experts, who had earlier agreed that the player had a case to answer. The following day they recommended that no further action be taken against MacLeod ...[/SIZE]
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[SIZE=-1]Scotsman, United Kingdom - 4 minutes ago[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Scott MacLeod's test was on 25 January at Murrayfield. There was a positive reading for terbutaline, and a high T/E level (the ratio of testosterone to epitestosterone). High T/E levels can come about through doping, but a test almost two years earlier had already revealed that MacLeod had a high T/E level which might occur naturally.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]In February a judicial committee appointed by the Scottish Rugby Union found that MacLeod, who was known to take treatment for asthma, had not filled in the form required to be allowed to use the inhaler which had produced the terbutaline ruling. The committee ruled that the player had violated the anti-doping rules and gave him a formal warning, but allowed him to resume playing. Research into the T/E finding, meanwhile, continued.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]UK Sport, having analysed five samples from MacLeod, decided in September that there was a case to answer. Backed by some research done by his agent into a previous case, MacLeod suggested his acute alcohol ingestion on the night before the test could have produced the high reading. Last Thursday, UK Sport wrote to the SRU accepting that was "more likely than not" the correct reason for the finding. The SRU then referred the matter to a review panel of three experts, who had earlier agreed that the player had a case to answer. The following day they recommended that no further action be taken against MacLeod ...[/SIZE]
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