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Tandara Caixeta tested positive in a test conducted before the start of the Olympic Games.
The player of the Brazilian women’s volleyball team Tandara Caixeta was sentenced to 4 years of suspension after He tested positive for a type of anabolic steroid, which is why he had to leave the Tokyo Olympics last August.
The penalty was imposed by the Sports Anti-Doping Court of Justice during an eight-hour trial that concluded Monday night. However, the 33-year-old player advanced that will resort the decision to prove hers “innocence.”
“We are going to resort to the plenary so that justice is, in fact, restored. I respect, but I do not agree with today’s decision. I will fight, as I always did, to prove my innocence”, he affirmed. Caixeta on their social networks.
“I never spoke out “I came out openly about the doping case because I was determined to prove my innocence and I still am,” she added.
The player tested positive in a test conducted before the start of the Olympic Games last on July 7, at the national team’s training center in Saquarema, in the state of Rio de Janeiro (southeast). on August 5 and it was detected The presence of the ostarine substance, which, according to the Brazilian anti-doping code, leads to the immediate provisional suspension of the athlete. It caused the player to miss the semifinal of the Olympic event against South Korea, in which Brazil won 3-0, and the decision for the gold medal against the United States team, in the that lost by 0-3.