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Brit Blames Positive Test On ‘Passive Smoking’.
By admin | October 26, 2004
Associated Press
Oct. 26, 2004.
A British track and field athlete who blamed a positive marijuana test on passive smoking received a public warning Tuesday.
Jonathan Moore, a 20-year-old long jumper and triple jumper, tested positive at a Sept. 4 meet in Merksem, Belgium. He won the long jump with a leap of 7.82 metres.
“He accepted that the substance was in his sample but stated that he had not smoked cannabis and it must have been due to passive smoking,” UK Athletics said in a statement. “He waived his right to a disciplinary hearing.”
Because no hearing was held, the federation did not rule on Moore’s passive smoking defence.
UK Athletics stripped Moore of his Merksem result, but did not impose a suspension. However, he was warned that another positive would result in a two-year ban.
Cannabis is included on the World Anti-Doping Agency’s list of banned substances. It is described as being “against the spirit of sport, rather than performance enhancing.”
International and national rules allow for a public warning if the case involves a first doping offence and officials are satisfied the athlete had no intention to enhance performance.
“UK Athletics is satisfied that these factors all applied in Jonathan Moore’s case,” the statement said.
Moore is the 2001 world youth triple jump champion and the British junior long jump record-holder.
Canadian snowboarder Ross Rebagliati blamed passive smoking when he tested positive for marijuana after winning a snowboarding gold medal at the 1998 Nagano Olympics. He was stripped of the medal but got it back on a technicality.
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