‘MotoGP’ driver Jannon is sentenced to four years of disqualification

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Analyzes submitted by Jannone during the Malaysian Grand Prix last November found the anabolic steroid drostanolone. He was disqualified from the last two stages of the season, in which the Italian withdrew.

In the spring, the International Motorsport Federation (FIM) sentenced Jannon to 18 months’ disqualification for using prohibited substances. This penalty was valid until June 16 of the following year.

June Jannone CAS challenged his disqualification while the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) requested that the fine be increased to four years. Jannone claimed that the prohibited substance had entered his body through the meat, but the CAS states that at no point did the motorcyclist indicate what the meat was and where it came from.

The CAS commission concluded that neither Jannone nor the experts could prove that drostanolone was ingested by eating meat, so that it could not be shown that he had ingested the prohibited substance unintentionally.

On Tuesday, CAS announced that Jannone’s appeal was dismissed and sentenced him to four years of disqualification, effective December 17, 2019. This decision probably marks the end of a career for 31-year-old Jannon.

Jannone, who had a contract with the “Aprilia” team until the end of this year, in the 2019 season “MotoGP“He took 16th place in the class. In the most prestigious class, he spent seven seasons, achieving the best result in 2015, when he won the fifth place in the overall standings. He celebrated his only victory in the” MotoGP “class in 2016 in Austria.

Before debuting at MotoGP, Jannone was third in the Moto2 class for three consecutive seasons, but before that he started in the 125cc class.

Jannone is the first athlete to be caught at the World Road Championships since 2012, when Moto2 Australian rider Anthony West “fell” for using methylhexanamine.

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