Srour banned for four years for doping – VG

The verdict in the case against Srour became clear this weekend.

– He received a four-year exclusion, says Forsnes to VG.

She does not comment on the decision beyond this.

Boxer Hadi Srour (23) confirmed to VG September 4 last year that he had passed a positive doping test. On 13 September 2019, he published on his own Facebook page that the B-test was also positive about the banned substance EPO. According to the analysis at the laboratory in Oslo, the positive doping test, which became known in September last year, contained traces of the “endurance doping” EPO in so-called synthetic form – that it must have been added to Hadi Sror’s body by injection – and not been produced naturally.

Hadi Srour has so far not responded to VG’s inquiry on Monday morning. The verdict has not been announced yet. Srour has consistently claimed he is not guilty.

Attorney Brynjar Meling, who is Srour’s defense counsel in the case, has this reaction to the case:

– The decision means that no one other than their own laboratories can make assessments of whether a sample is positive or not. In other words, the laboratory has concluded, then the verdict is already ready. It is frightening considering the practitioner’s legal security, Meling writes in an SMS to VG.

Retired professor Erik Boye (73) testified in favor of Hadi Srour during the hearing this autumn and represented a group consisting of four professors and researchers, who believed that the misleading analysis of his sample was subject to misinterpretation.

Head of the prosecution committee Katharina Rise says they are satisfied with the result in a message sent from Anti-Doping Norway:

– The Prosecution Committee is satisfied that NIF’s adjudication committee agrees with the tribunal that Srour with a clear probability has given a positive doping test for rEPO, and that the adjudication committee placed decisive emphasis on the assessments and the conclusion of the Norwegian doping laboratory which was confirmed by two other WADA accredited laboratories. .

Rise states that the verdict has not been considered final yet because the case can be appealed to the appeals committee in the Norwegian Sports Confederation and later possibly to CAS (Sports Arbitration Court).

Hadi Srour says that the night before he took the positive test, in mid-July last year, he “raved” at the Stavern Festival.

During the hearing on 23 September this year before the Sports Confederation’s jury he denied the allegation of double doping offenses.

– Three days after the (professional) match in Germany, I received a letter from Anti-Doping Norway. I thought it was about the duty to report. But it was that I had tested positive for Epo in the blood, Hadi Srour stated in his free explanation in front of the Judgment Committee’s panel in the Meet hall at Ullevaal Stadium.

He believed that he was not guilty and had not violated the duty to report five times in the course of two and a half years, as Anti-Doping Norway at the prosecution committee stated.

He has from the first moment and all the time claimed his innocence. This is how he presented it during his press conference on 4 September last year:

Lawyer Niels Kiær, who brought the case before the prosecution committee, demanded that the Judgment Committee should sentence Srour to four years ‘exclusion from the sport, and that the breach of the duty to report alone should lead to two years’ exclusion.