Peter Bol’s lawyer claims star has been completely exonerated in bombshell drugs finding that proves doping authorities’ investigation into the Aussie athlete is a ‘sham’
- Lawyer Peter Greene demands case be dropped
- Bol told of positive result on January 10
- Athletics Australia suspension was lifted
Australian track star Peter Bol never tested positive to drugs with independent tests proving a ‘sham’ investigation by doping authorities, his lawyer says.
Bol’s lawyer Paul Greene is demanding Sport Integrity Australia (SIA) drop the case and admit there’s no evidence against the middle distance runner.
Bol was told on January 10 of a positive result to banned drug erythropoietin, known as EPO, in his A sample from a test three months prior.
He was provisionally suspended by Athletics Australia – the ban was lifted when the results of a second sample, the B sample, did not confirm the initial result.
Bol’s lawyer Greene sent the samples for independent testing at two laboratories and results showed no trace of any banned substance, he says.
Australian track star Peter Bol never tested positive to drugs, with independent tests proving a ‘sham’ investigation by doping authorities, his lawyer claims
Bol’s lawyer Paul Greene is demanding Sport Integrity Australia (SIA) drop the case and admit there’s no evidence against the middle-distance runner
‘We have two of the most world-class analytical chemists in the world look at his results and say this wasn’t even a close call, these were just negative tests,’ Greene told the Nine Network on Wednesday.
Greene called on SIA to admit their errors.
‘They just couldn’t get it right,’ he said.
‘They had no idea what they were doing.
‘And the worst part of it now is, one, it was announced first of all which never should have been, I begged them not to announce it.
‘Two, now they just … obviously are wrong, they are refusing to drop this sham investigation.’
Greene said SIA had ‘absolutely no evidence at all’ of any wrongdoing.
‘There is nothing to investigate, they have no evidence,’ he said.
Bol’s lawyer claimed SIA had ‘absolutely no evidence at all’ of any wrongdoing
‘There is no urine sample positive. There is no evidence he took anything in his urine. It’s 100 per cent negative. There was nothing on his phone. There is nothing on his computer.
‘There’s absolutely zero evidence. They just need to say ‘we have no evidence, we we have no evidence, we messed this up, this was a mistake.’
SIA had no comment at this stage, a spokesman said.
Bol, a dual Olympian and a Commonwealth Games silver medallist specialising in the 800m, had always protested his innocence.
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