Sunrise host and former track star Matt Shirvington has lashed the ‘flawed system’ that saw Olympic sprinter Peter Bol sensationally suspended by Australian Athletics after he returned a false positive for a performance enhancing drug.
Bol was provisionally suspended in January after news broke he had returned a positive A sample for synthetic EPO during an out-of-competition drug test.
The Commonwealth Games medalist strenuously maintained his innocence during the eight-month ordeal as Sport Integrity Australia (SIA) retested the samples.
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