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Ryan Lochte An American swimming star collects the world's dumbest doping ban
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The American swimming star concedes the most curious doping ban in the world
The six-time Olympic swimming champion is always good for a scandal. Now makes the Americans with a curious doping blocking title. Lochte is not allowed to start for 14 months. The reason: He posted an impenetrable image on Instagram.
The championship swimmer, Ryan Lochte, oscillates from one lock to the other. After being suspended for taking part in a riot at a gas station, the Olympic champion violated the anti-doping rules. How he found himself guilty.
D Six-time Olympic swimming champion Ryan Lochte (USA) was suspended for 14 months for anti-doping rule violations. Never before has an athlete been taken so frivolously in case of irregularity.
The 33-year-old man posted a photo on social networks in May, receiving an intravenous infusion. These are only allowed during a hospital stay or under strict conditions.
Lochte accepted the punishment, said the USADA anti-doping agency. His suspension will begin retroactively May 24 and will end in July 2019. A month later, Lochte will be 35 years old. More recently, he said that he wanted to continue his career in Tokyo until the 2020 Summer Games.
Ryan Lochte: "Everything was legal"
"I do not want to do anything." I took nothing illegal … everything was legal, you can buy it at Walgreens (American chain of pharmacies, d.But there are rules and they must be followed, "said Lochte at 39, a press conference in Florida will miss the 2019 World Cup in South Korea Gwangju, as well as the national championships in California from Wednesday and the Pan Pacific Championships in Tokyo in August
Ryan Lochte himself took this picture Instagram He shows it in the illicit infusion
Source: pa / dpa / Ryanlochte / Instagram
Lochte had made his comeback in August 2017 after his ban of ten months by the American federation
Eklat after Olympia 2016
Lochte e And his American teammates, Gunnar Bentz, Jack Conger and James Figs, also claimed at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro that they had been attacked under the threat of guns on the sidelines of the Games. This was not true, as it turned out later. In fact, the Americans had demonstrated at a service station
. Due to the history of the lies, 18-time world champion Lochte, who also collected 21 titles on the short course, initially lost all his personal sponsors. The American federation has blocked Lochte for ten months. As a result, he was not allowed to defend his three titles from 2015 to the 2017 World Cup in Budapest.
