Dutch 4×100 relay Solomon Bockarie, who examined optimistic for the expansion hormone GHRP-2 throughout an out-of-competition verify earlier final month, has insisted that he didn’t eat any banned substance to his information.
“I don’t understand how this product bought into my physique,” Bockarie was quoted by the Netherlands public broadcaster, NOS. “I solely know one factor for positive. And that’s that I’ve not used doping. If anybody is vehemently in opposition to utilizing banned stimulants, it’s me.”
“I’ve plenty of questions on this verify and the outcomes,” mentioned Bockarie. “Let me emphasize that an athlete is always answerable for the substances present in his physique. However on this case, a lot is unclear that I would love some clarification.”
A report from NOS additional steered that Bockarie’s spokesperson Robbin Pieterman speculates that the hormone ended up in his system via low cost rooster he ate.
Oh boy, what a day it was yesterday! Broke the ten.2 barrier (10.13 SF), made the ultimate and certified for Rio! #100m pic.twitter.com/VfJ1A6sw0f
— Solomon Bockarie (@SolomonBockarie) July 8, 2016
In keeping with Pieterman, the athlete examined optimistic after he consumed the rooster purchased from the market in The Hague.
“It may very well be that this rooster had been handled with hormones and that he bought this hormone in his physique from consuming this rooster,” Pieterman mentioned. “Fortuitously, Solomon nonetheless has items of this rooster at house. We’ll attempt to have it examined to indicate that the hormone entered Solomon’s physique via this route.”
Bockarie was a part of the Netherlands staff on the 2016 and the 2020 Olympic Video games in Rio de Janeiro and Tokyo respectively.
