Doping statements exonerate the German ex-biathlete

“I don't know whether to be happy or sad. But the relief outweighs the fact that I am also being put in the right light from this point of view,” says Dingebacher-Stehle Augsburg General (Thursday edition). When she found out about it, she cried. “Everything came back up. I’ve learned to live with it, but it’s still there.” Victim of Russian scams According to excerpts from Rodchenkov's book ("The Rodchenkov Affairs"), which will be published this Thursday, the Russian frauds have become Dingebacher-Stehle's undoing. “The first victim was the German athlete Evi Dingebacher-Stehle, who had a small amount of methylhexanamine in her urine after a race,” writes Rodchenkov. “Your case was a borderline case. This stimulant usually appears in high concentrations.”

Dingebacher-Stehle had always denied doping and explained the values by taking contaminated tea powder that was recommended to her by her private coach. According to the WADA code, athletes are responsible for the substances they take. The German associations also constantly point this out. The presence of prohibited substances in a sample constitutes a violation of Article 2.1 of the WADA Code and therefore constitutes doping. Unless a specific quantitative threshold is specified for the substance on the prohibited list.

Evi Dingebacher-Stehle ended her career as a result of the doping ban. © APA/epa / FILIP SINGER

Under the direction of Rodchenkov, then head of the doping analysis laboratory in Sochi, positive samples from Russian athletes were manipulated. The Russian domestic secret service FSB also participated in the fraud. In order to prove the functionality of his Russian laboratory, Rodchenkov reported the sample from Dingebacher-Stehle. “If I had already reported five real violations, I might not have turned them in,” Rodchenkov continues. “She was banned and the punishment didn’t really fit her crime.”

The biathlon world association IBU confirmed when asked German Press Agency, to have become aware of the case from the media. There is currently no reason to act. But that could still change. The German Olympic Sports Confederation excluded Dingebacher-Stehle from the Olympic team on February 21, 2014 due to the positive doping test. The International Olympic Committee recognized her fourth places in the mass start and with the German mixed relay. Dingebacher-Stehle went to the Cas International Court of Arbitration for Sports against the two-year doping ban imposed by the IBU World Association, which reduced the sentence to six months.

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Doping statements exonerate the German ex-biathlete

Former biathlete Evi Dingebacher-Stehle reacted with disbelief to potentially exculpatory statements by Russian whistleblower Grigory Rodchenkov about her positive doping test at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.

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