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The sprinter who claimed his affirmative trial for a performance-enhancer came from eating contaminated “recovery gummies" has mislaid an entreaty against his four-year ban.
Issam Asinga, who acceptable the Under-20 satellite grounds astatine 100 meters successful 2023, mislaid his entreaty astatine the tribunal of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), which announced its ruling Thursday (October 30, 2025).
The 20-year-old Asinga, who represents Suriname, tested affirmative successful July 2023 for a banned substance called GW1516, which was developed to physique endurance and pain abdominous but failed aesculapian trials erstwhile it was recovered to origin crab during tests connected rodents.
Asinga argued that the beingness of metabolites was from his ingestion of contaminated Gatorade gummies. He said the gummies were portion of a acquisition container helium received erstwhile helium travelled to Los Angeles successful designation of being named the Gatorade Athlete of the Year for way and field.
In May 2024, the Athletics Integrity Unit announced the four-year prohibition and stripped Asinga of his grounds of 9.89 seconds successful the 100 astatine the South American Championships successful 2023.
Asinga filed an entreaty to CAS. He said helium had “never utilized and would ne'er knowingly usage immoderate banned substance, risking a promising vocation and my full future”. CAS announced connected Thursday (October 30) that its sheet found, aft a proceeding successful June, “the jock had failed to found that, connected the equilibrium of probabilities, it was much apt than not that the gummies helium ingested earlier his anti-doping trial were contaminated with GW1516.”
“Therefore, a reduced authorisation for No Fault oregon Negligence was not applicable,” the court's connection continued. “The sheet besides recovered that the jock failed to found that his (anti-doping regularisation violation) was not intentional,” it said
