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A French Olympic Fence’s contaminated kiss defense was enough on Monday that the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) to clear her for a doping claim.
World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) asked that Ysaora Thibus be banned from competition for four years after she tested positively for the anabolic drug that Ostarine in January 2024. An international fencing court initially cleared Thibus, enabling her to compete in Paris-Ol.
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France’s Ysaora Thibus responds after losing the women’s individual foil round against Poland’s Julia Walczyk Klimaszyk during the Paris Olympics on July 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, File)
However, Wada challenged the explanation that Thibus was contaminated “by kissing with her then partner who had used a product containing Ostarine without her knowledge,” Cas said.
CAS cleared Thibus after the judges accepted that she was contaminated by kisses from her American partner over a period of nine days.
The court said on Monday, “It is scientifically found that the intake of a ostarind dose corresponding to the dose taken by Mrs. Thibus’, then the partner would have left sufficient amounts of ostarin in saliva to contaminate a person through kissing.”
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Ysaora Thibus, Left, competes against Julia Walczyk-Klimaszyk at the Paris Olympics, July 28, 2024. (Andrew P. Scott -usa Today Sports)
CAS judges “accepted that Mrs. Thibus’ then partner took Ostarine from January 5, 2024 and that there was pollution over nine days with a cumulative effect.”
Thibus’ partner at that time was race imboden — a two-time Olympic fence bronze medal for US
Thibus ended up in fifth place in the woman’s team foil in the Paris Olympics and 28. In the women’s individual foil. She was a silver medalist in the women’s foil event in Tokyo Games.
Ysaora Thibus in a women’s foil individual table with 32 matches during the Olympic summer matches in Grand Palais in Paris on July 28, 2024. (Andrew P. Scott -usa Today Sports)
She won a World Cup in 2022 in individual foil.
