Jenny Fransson has been tested positive with the illicit substance methyltestosterone, an anabolic steroid. If the b-test next week is synonymous with the a-test, the 32-year-old will miss the summer Olympics in Tokyo and she also risks being suspended for a long time.
During his career, Fransson has been ambassador to the Swedish Olympic Committee and stood up for pure sports.
"Obviously a big injury"SOK's chief operating officer Peter Reinebo now believes that the news may harm Swedish sport.
- Obviously this is a major injury and it is an injury to the sport in Sweden, to the Olympic squad and to the wrestling sport. But mostly for Jenny herself. The profile we have in our country of strong work against doping is obviously a thorn and it is not good. There are many activists who strongly refrain from doping and Jenny is one of them. She has been involved in pure sports and has in many ways been involved. That's why this feels like double tragedy, he tells SVT Sport.
Reinebo emphasizes that SOK takes the doping message seriously.
- The reason is that a doping offense is always serious, it will receive some form of sanction. You can't defend that. If one week the b test is analyzed and then we get an answer as to whether the tests are synonymous.
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