SWIMMING , DOPING – The American star of swimming is banned until July of next year

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Ryan Lochte still has problems. The American swimmer is excluded from any competition up to July 2019 for anti-doping rule violation.

The penalty comes after Lochte posted a photo of himself on social media in May. There, you could see the swimmer receiving an intravenous treatment. The United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) has been asked to investigate the matter further.

Lochte took no prohibited substance, but the intravenous amount was above the permitted level. In most cases, there is also an anti-doping rule violation to be administered intravenously as long as the practitioner is not hospitalized or has received approval from USADA.

The ban is 14 months old. It applies from May 24, when Lochte published the famous photo in social media. The picture has been removed from the Twitter and Instagram account over 33 years. He accepted the USADA penalty.

This is not the first time that Lochte, who has six Olympic gold medals, is making controversy. During the Rio 2016 Olympics, he made a false explanation to the Brazilian police when he claimed that he and three of his teammates had been stolen by a firearm outside a station. -service.

The video recording later showed that the four led with vandalism and that there was a security guard who had used a pistol against the swimmers. Lochte was banned for ten months to explain falsely.

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