Appeal of bans by Saudi Arabian riders on fast-track
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The Court of Arbitration for Sport says it volition fast-track the appeals of 2 transcend Saudi Arabian riders whose recent FEI bans dominion them out of competing inwards the London Olympics.
The courtroom confirmed today that it has received the appeals by Khaled Abdullaziz Al Eid together with Abdullah Waleed Al Sharbatly.
The brace are challenging the decisions taken past times the FEI Tribunal on May 23 inwards which they were found to lead maintain committed an anti-doping dominion violation.
Both were suspended for viii months, ruling them out of the Olympics.
At the asking of the riders together with alongside the consent of the FEI, the cases lead maintain been referred to a sole arbitrator together with are beingness conducted on an expedited basis, the courtroom said.
A hearing volition convey house on June 7, together with the courtroom says the determination volition locomote issued past times June 15, which would allow the brace the compete at the Games is their appeals evidence successful. If unsuccessful, the bans volition non choke until October.
Al Eid, 43, is the 2000 Sydney Olympics bronze medalist inwards showjumping. Al Sharbatly, 29, won silvery at the 2010 World Equestrian Games inwards showjumping..
The FEI bans were a final result of their horses testing positive for non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs).
Al Eid’s horse, Vanhoeve, together with Al Sharbatly’s mount, Lobster 43, tested positive to phenylbutazone together with oxyphenbutazone (a metabolite of phenylbutazone) at 2 dissever events.
Vanhoeve was sampled at the Riyadh CSI3*-W inwards Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (30 November-3 Dec 2011), together with the positive finding was notified to Al Eid on Feb 2. The passenger voluntarily suspended himself without prejudice on Feb 24.
An adverse analytical finding for the Equus caballus Lobster 43 resulted from testing at the CSI3*-W at Al Ain inwards the UAE (9-11 Feb 2012). The instance was notified to Abdullah Al Sharbatly on Feb 24, together with the athlete also position himself on a voluntary suspension, commencing on Feb 28.
The Saudi Equestrian Federation has expressed its disappointment over the FEI Tribunal determination that resulted inwards the bans.
The terminal hearing earlier the FEI Tribunal for both cases took house at FEI Headquarters inwards Lausanne inwards Switzerland inwards April.
Al Eid appeared earlier the Tribunal on Apr 17, together with Al Sharbatly the next day.
The panel for both hearings comprised the FEI Tribunal Chair, Professor Dr Jens Adolphsen, of Germany, Pierre Ketterer, of France, together with Randi Haukebø, of Norway.
In its terminal determination on the Vanhoeve case, the tribunal found that, equally the Person Responsible, Al Eid failed to evidence that ingestion past times agency of exposure to a contaminated stable surroundings was the probable rootage of the prohibited substances found inwards the horse’s system.
While it acknowledged the importance of the Olympic Games, which had been stressed past times both Al Eid and his counsel during the hearing, the tribunal stated that considering the upcoming Games piece determining the length of intermission would non render a score playing plain inwards a sports calendar that offers major events virtually every year, together with that rules lead maintain to locomote applied consistently throughout the four-year Olympic cycle.
The tribunal imposed an eight-month suspension, effective directly together with backdated to Feb 24, the twenty-four hr menstruation Al Eid accepted a menstruation of voluntary provisional suspension. In addition, the tribunal imposed a fine of thou Swiss francs together with costs of CHF3000.
In its terminal determination on the Lobster 43 case, the tribunal found that Al Sharbatly failed to industrial plant life how the prohibited substances entered the horse’s system. The tribunal rejected his theories on ingestion inwards a contaminated environment. It also ruled that, equally phenylbutazone together with oxyphenbutazone are non threshold substances, whatever quantity of those substances is considered a positive.
The tribunal imposed an eight-month ban effective directly together with credited from the fourth dimension of sample collection on Feb 10, based on Al Sharbatly’s timely credence of the dominion violations. The tribunal also imposed a fine of CHF1000 together with costs of CHF3000.
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