Jock Paget: “Complete relief” after FEI decision
New Zealand eventer Jonathan Paget is relieved to endure finally able to set the past times 10 months behind him, afterward beingness cleared of whatever wrongdoing in relation to his Equus caballus Clifton Promise finally yr failing an equine anti-doping test.
“I experience equally though I had my career stripped from me together with forthwith individual has said ‘hang on, you lot tin sack convey it back’. It is consummate relief,” Paget said.
“I didn’t know if I would endure cleared, despite knowing I had done null wrong. I knew it wouldn’t endure equally slowly equally turning some together with proverb ‘I didn’t create it’. I was fortunate that nosotros were able to discovery the origin of the contamination, delineate it together with bear witness it, together with – nearly importantly – that I wasn’t responsible nor could convey known.”
Paget said the back upward he had received from sponsors, owners, his team-mates, staff, family, friends, Equestrian Sports New Zealand together with his legal squad at Burges Salmon had been invaluable.
Equestrian Sports New Zealand president Chris Hodson, QC, equally good welcomed the ruling.
“It is real of import to the reputation of equestrian together with New Zealand sport that no athlete should endure knowingly involved inwards whatever human action of doping.
“That Jock Paget has proved his innocence, which requires a real high criterion which has alone been achieved inwards 1 previous case, is intensely satisfying, together with fully justifies the back upward which ESNZ has given him throughout.”
Hodson equally good reaffirmed ESNZ’s ongoing together with active back upward of FEI Clean Sport together with World Anti-Doping Agency programmes.
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