Hungarian Olympic bronze medalist Tamás Kenderesi known as his four-year doping suspension a “shame to Hungary” whereas chatting with reporters on Monday.
Kenderesi, who has at all times maintained his innocence, had his suspension attraction rejected by the Courtroom of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) on February 27 after three rescheduled attraction hearings.
The 28-year-old Olympian appeared on Hungarian information outlet HírTV to deal with the ordeal alongside his lawyer, Tamás Hergenrőde. Watch the interview in Hungarian right here, the place Kenderesi stated this (translated):
“I used to be taken out of the on a regular basis life and competitors of a prime athlete, I used to be in a nightmare that’s incomprehensible. I do know that I didn’t do something associated to doping, I at all times monitored what I used to be taking. There was a time after I known as Ágnes Tiszeker (the top of the Hungarian Anti-Doping Affiliation – Ed.) to ask if this medication was authorized, and he or she readily helped. Regardless of this, I ended up in a scenario the place they don’t even care what occurs to me. In any case, my profession is at stake,”
He then went on to say {that a} four-year suspension, the utmost quantity, for his first offense was a “shame to Hungary”.
In 2023, the 200 butterflier introduced he was accused of doping because of what he says is an administrative error in his blood passport (an anti-doping program that tracks athlete’s blood additional time for drastic hormone modifications or different irregularities). The discrepancies got here from blood samples in 2022 and 2017. Yesterday, Kenderesi stated that he had donated blood in 2017 and that it was incorrectly recorded as a transfusion in his blood passport.
The CAS’ rejected attraction comes at a time when the EU Courtroom of Justice, which has jurisdiction over Hungary, has expressed its want to exchange the CAS as the ultimate say-so in the case of EU residents or corporations having disputes with sports activities governing organizations.
Previous to the suspension, Kenderesi made back-to-back Olympic closing appearances within the 200 fly, incomes bronze in 2016 and putting fourth in 2021. The butterfly specialist additionally earned 4 European Championships medals in the identical occasion, incomes silver on the 2018 Glasgow Video games and bronze at London 2016, Copenhagen 2017 (brief course), and Budapest 2020 (held in 2021).
