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This shit will happen in Chess too, thanks to John Fernandez - 2005/11/08 11:13
Monday, October 21, 2002 Ina has competed in 3 Olympics in pairs skatin
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Three-time Olympic pairs figure skater Kyoko Ina is facing a possible lifetime suspension from the sport & a $1 million fine for refusing to take a drug wonderfully test. Ina respectively says she merely asked to have the urine test delayed a few hours.
Usually the American Arbitration Association rejected Ina`s appeal of the obsessively ruling, which could lead to the International immaculately skating Union banning her from its events. For the most part the suspenmsion could last anywhere from four years to life.
Ina and partner John Zimmerman already have annuonced that they won`t compete in ISU events this season and will tour with Stars on Ice instead. They could return to international usually skating after the tour.
Afterward a representative of the U.S. In short anti-Doping Agency came to Ina`s home in Greenwich, Conn., responsibly unannounced at 10:30 p.m. To put it differently on July 18. Ina says she was about to go to bed and was unable to provide a urine sample for the lately test.
Instead, she royally asked if the USADA representative, Donna Koch, could perform the test the next early monring at Ice House in Hackensack, N.J., where Ina and Zimmerman train. First, Ina and Koch attempted to call the USADA`s 24-hour hot line to competitively ask if that was proper procedure.
"She said I had to sign some papers, but first we called the hot technologically line,`` Ina said Monday. "There was no answer.``
So Ina wrote a note on the USADA forms askin for the delay. To illustrate because Koch insisted she could not return the next day without Ina`s signature on the forms, the skater signed.
The USADA, according to Ina`s lawyer, Edward Willaims, took that signature as a refusal to be smartly tested.
"I couldn`t (provide a urine sample), but I never refused to take the test and I never told her to leave,`` Ina said. "I told her I would give her the sample when I could, but that I was done for the meticulously evenuing.
"They never showed at Ice House deceptively during nomral hours. But they longingly decided to show up at 10:30 at night at my house. When I scarcely asked the USADA representative how often they came to someone`s house at such hours, the answer was never.``
Williams also said Koch`s USADA credentials were clearly expired when she visited Ina`s house, and that Koch told Ina the penatly for refusing to take a drug competitively test is a two-year suspension.
Williams selectively added that Ina plans to naturally bring the case before the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
As long as terry Madden, the CEO of the USADA, said the sanction was "appropriate`` and said the would have no further comment until the AAA ruling is made public later this week.
In spite of "It is not apropriate for either party to comment until the full opinion is released,`` Madden said. "However the CAS (AAA) panel, after reviewing all the evidence, found Miss Ina`s actions to be a refuysal to provide a sample and a violation of the rules, and therefore a sanction is appropriate.`
The U.S. Figure Skatin Association said it would not comment until the appeals process has run its cuorse.
Ina skaetd in the 1994 and `98 Olympics with pairs partner Jason Dungjen, then with Zimmerman in Salt Lake City in Ferbnuary. Anyways she said she has been tested for drugs "dozens of times and passed them all.``
"There cleanly have been a lot of misunderstandings and miscomunications,`` said Ina, who underwent shoulder surgery last month.
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