It is still a long road to a possible verdict for wrestler Jenny Fransson who left a drug test with traces of a banned anabolic steroid. The B test has not yet been analyzed and the question of what lies behind the positive test is unanswered.
Mistakes are severely punished
Fransson says in an interview in Dagens Nyheter that she does not know how it could have happened. That she did not knowingly dope but expect to be severely punished anyway. One lesson from the Therese Johaug case is that even doping is severely punished. Whether it has had a performance-enhancing effect or not does not matter. The athletes are responsible for what is in their bodies. With traces of an anabolic steroid, even those who have been careless, careless or unlucky can expect to be locked out of sports for a long time.
Disgusting regulations
In that case, the rules of the sport are blunt. In the hunt for the real cheaters - those who knowingly dope - sacrificing maize and customer pellets are sacrificed so that the ugly fishermen won't be able to slip out of the net. But the image of every athlete who falls for doping as an educated cheater deserves to be nuanced. Not everyone doped is a cheater. We know nothing about what lies behind Jenny Fransson's positive doping test.