As followers could nicely recall, some time again information broke informing us that feminine star, multi-weight world champion Claressa Shields had examined constructive for marijuana. Shields was completely resolute from the minute the experiences got here out that she didn’t, and doesn’t, take marijuana.
And now, as per quite a few information sources, Shields has had her doping suspension lifted. As per a information article from BBC Sport right here within the UK, the Michigan Unarmed Fight Fee which provisionally suspended Shields’ boxing licence, mentioned the unbeaten fighter has now “supplied proof ” to indicate she isn’t any risk to both the game’s integrity or to the welfare and security of a contestant.
Shields, who turned the unified girls’s champion at heavyweight together with her dominant win over Danielle Perkins, took to social media to state that her critics are actually “quiet.”
“However y’all a bit of quiet! Y’all was actual loud about me ‘supposedly’ smoking marijuana and being suspended.” Shields wrote. “No worries! And nonetheless an undisputed heavyweight champion.”
However the story isn’t fairly over but. In response to experiences, Shields might nonetheless wind up having to pay a wonderful, or much more severely, Shields – the self-proclaimed “GWOAT” – might see her choice win over Perkins modified to a no contest.
Solely time will inform. Nevertheless, as Shields says, her failed check solely confirmed “traces” of marijuana. And whereas marijuana is a banned substance jn boxing, it on no account improves a fighter’s general efficiency, and is merely a leisure drug.
Does the entire Shields being suspended, for a time at the very least, and seeing her good identify barely questioned, seem to be a bunch of nothing to you, the best way it does me?
