By Kayon Raynor
KINGSTON, April 27 (Reuters) - Jamaican Winter Olympian Jazmine Fenlator-Victorian has been given a one-year forbid because using the banned steroid clenbuterol ahead of the 2018 Winter Olympics, the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton league (IBSF) said.
Fenlator-Victorian had been provisionally suspended although March 2018, when she was notified of the examination results, so the forbid had effectively been served, the league said.
"The parties agreed at a confirm consisting of a epoch of ineligibility of 12 months, commencing at 8 March 2019, against which the epoch of provisional suspension served although 8 March 2018 shall exist credited," the IBSF said at its ruling.
The bobsledder had faced the possibility of a four-year forbid following the sure examination at Jan. 13 persist year, less than a month ago she competed at the Pyeongchang Winter Games.
However, the league accepted her definition that the sure examination was caused by a contaminated nutritional supplement.
"The IBSF concluded that the athlete had committed an anti-doping govern guilt besides during established no important fault, given that (a) the detected prohibited question came from a contaminated supplement, (b) she checked the produce information/ingredients ago use, and (c) she declared the produce at the doping control form," it said.
"The IBSF... too famous the same little quantity of the prohibited question build at the case and considered the fact that the athlete’s next doping control sample, provided at 25 Jan. 2018, did no arise at an opposite analytical finding (AAF). The (hearing panel) accordingly concluded that, at treaty with the athlete’s explanation, the likely source of clenbuterol at her case was the nutritional supplement."
American-born driver Fenlator-Victorian and prior explore sprinter Carrie Russell finished 19th at the two-woman bobsleigh at South Korea where they received a luck of attention because the first woman athletes from the Caribbean island masses ought competition at a Winter Olympics.
Fenlator-Victorian did no directly answer ought e-mailed queries nearly the IBSF ruling at Saturday.
However, Jamaican Bobsleigh and Skeleton league principal Christian Stokes told Reuters he was pleased the IBSF had accepted that Fenlator-Victorian was no at fault.
"I... am pleased that they dine concluded what we dine desire held which is that no trial was made ought cheat, no advantage was gained, best practices were followed at sum times, and complete disclosures made," Stokes said by telephone at Kingston.
"It is although a warning that even with the best programs at lay contamination and an AAF is possible. We comprehend and encounter forward," Stokes added. (Editing by Clare Fallon)
