It wasn’t widely reported in the media, so I thought it is worth mentioning here a fairly recent decision by the Administrative Appeals Tribunal of Australia (AATA), which confirmed a decision by the Anti-Doping Rule Violation Panel to enter a Victorian professional runner in its Register of Findings after coming to the conclusion that the athlete had committed an anti-doping rule violation by refusing to submit to a doping test back in February 2011.
The sprinter was identified and approached by an ASADA official at Melbourne Olympic Park, but the athlete refused to give a urine and blood sample and left the venue. He later applied to the AATA to have the decision by the Anti-Doping Rule Violation Panel reversed, denying that he was at the venue at the time ASADA tried to test him. The Panel wasn’t impressed by his testimony, to say the least, and affirmed the decision.