Peter Bol’s lawyer claims doping investigation into Aussie athletics star is a ‘sham’
Peter Bol’s lawyer claims the star has been fully exonerated in a drug finding that shows anti-doping authorities’ investigation of the Australian athlete is a “sham”.
- Lawyer Peter Greene demands the case be dismissed
- Bol spoke of a positive result on January 10
- Athletics Australia suspension lifted
Australian track star Peter Bol has never tested positive for the drugs with independent tests proving a ‘false’ investigation by anti-doping authorities, his lawyer says.
Bol’s lawyer, Paul Greene, is demanding that Sport Integrity Australia (SIA) drop the case and admit there is no evidence against the middle-distance runner.
Bol was told on January 10 of a positive result for the banned drug erythropoietin, known as EPO, in his A sample from a test three months earlier.
He was provisionally suspended by Athletics Australia; the ban was lifted when the results of a second sample, the B sample, did not confirm the initial result.
Bol’s attorney, Greene, sent the samples to two labs for independent analysis, and the results showed no traces of any banned substances, he says.
Australian track star Peter Bol has never tested positive for drugs, with independent tests proving a ‘false’ investigation by anti-doping authorities, his lawyer claims.
Bol’s lawyer, Paul Greene, is demanding that Sport Integrity Australia (SIA) drop the case and admit there is no evidence against the middle-distance runner.
“We’ve got two of the world’s leading analytical chemists looking at their results and saying this wasn’t even close, it was just negative tests,” Greene told the Nine Network on Wednesday.
Greene asked SIA to admit its mistakes.
“They just couldn’t get it right,” he said.
‘They had no idea what they were doing.
‘And the worst part now is, first, it was announced in the first place which should never have been, I begged them not to announce it.
‘Two, now they’re just…obviously wrong, they refuse to give up on this bogus investigation.’
Greene said SIA had “absolutely no evidence” of any wrongdoing.
“There is nothing to investigate, they have no evidence,” he said.
Bol’s lawyer claimed that SIA had “absolutely no evidence” of any wrongdoing.
‘There is no positive urine sample. There is no evidence that she took any urine from him. It is 100 percent negative. There was nothing on her phone. There’s nothing on his computer.
‘There is absolutely no evidence. They just need to say ‘we have no evidence, we have no evidence, we botched it, this was a mistake.’
SIA had no comment at this stage, a spokesman said.
Bol, two Olympians and a Commonwealth Games silver medalist specializing in the 800 metres, had long protested his innocence.