A University of Michigan swimmer tested positive for 2 diuretics: hydrocholorothiazide and triamterene. The combination makes up the pill 'Dyazide'. The swimmer's lawyer says she thought she took a laxative. Opps...wrong excretory system.
Those are impressive delts shown in the photo. To AFP for the story.
The 22-year-old Brunemann, a four-time NCAA All-American, was caught using banned drugs hydrochlorothiazide and triamterene. The two are considered masking agents and are listed on the World Anti-doping Agency Prohibited List.
"Following a detailed evidentary hearing, the panel confirmed that Brunemann committed a doping violation and found that she failed to take appropriate steps to avoid ingesting a prohibited substance," USADA said in a news release. Brunemann's suspension is retroactive to September 26.
Brunemann's lawyer, Howard Jacobs, said his client tested positive after taking what she thought was a laxative.
"Emily Brunemann accepted responsibility for her one-time mistake in taking what she thought at the time was a laxative but that turned out to be a banned diuretic," said Jacobs, who was also the lawyer for disgraced former American sprinter Tim Montgomery.
A diuretic can mask steroid use by diluting the urine. The drug could also be used to simply drop water weight.
Brunemann denied
knowingly taking a banned drug and said she plans to continue swimming
for her US college team, the University of Michigan.
"I look forward to finishing my collegiate swimming career and proving my first place finishes at the 2008 NCAA Championship and the 2008 US National Championships were based on my hard work and dedication," she was reported saying in Swimming World Magazine.
I spoke with Emily and Coach Richardson yesterday after we posted the story on our site about the suspension. I am usually pretty suspicious about these things, but I've got the feeling that it was an honest mistake.
Even USADA, which after all the Hardy nonsense isn't likely to want to let anyone off easy, believed Emily's explanation immediately and said so in its briefs to the arbitration panel. When you have the regulatory agency backing you, you usually are going to do okay as long as you just admit to the mistake.
I hope Emily can deal with this part of her life and get back to normal after this year. The six-month suspension is helpful in that it won't trigger the IOC rule that athletes banned for more than six months before the Olympics are automatically banned from the Olympics.
Posted by: Jason | 01/29/2009 at 08:26
I don't believe it at all. Laxatives you buy over-the-counter. Why would two different semi-exotic drugs be lying around her house or her gym or whereever? "Oh I want to take a laxative. Hey if I take this pill on this table and that pill from the medicine cabinet, I think it will do the trick. gulp". Yeah right.
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I don't believe it at all. Laxatives you buy over-the-counter. Why would two different semi-exotic drugs be lying around her house or her gym or whereever? "Oh I want to take a laxative. Hey if I take this pill on this table and that pill from the medicine cabinet, I think it will do the trick. gulp". Yeah right.
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