(DR) Aalborg Handball
MIGUEL MARTINS
Portuguese international could have (even more) the level of selection at the event. After all, counter-analysis contradicted test results.
Everything was practically forgotten because Portugal It reached the semi-finals and ended up, for the first time. But before you start the Handbanka news shook the national entourage.
Miguel Martins was suspended. The player, always summoned to major competitions in recent years, would be one of the most used players by coach Paulo Jorge Pereira.
At issue was an alleged positive anti -doping control by exogenous testosterone, during… Euro 2024. That is, the punishment has been announced a year lateron the eve of Portugal’s debut at the 2025 World Cup.
AALBORG Central was “Deeply shocked”, The Portuguese Handball Federation knew nothing, from any development, until the day of the suspension announcement. And the case raised doubts, even in the largest countries of European handball.
No one understood the processwith questions about the collection and EHF, the European Federation, to indicate that the matter had been ended thanks to a negative test.
Now, shortly after the end of the World Cup, Miguel Martins can return to the competition with immediate effects: counter-analysis has contradicted the initial test result.
In a statement, the International Testing Agency (ITA) reported that the accredited Laboratory of the World Anti-Doping Agency (AMA) that collected the first sample (A) at the time of Euro2024 in January last year, said today that counter-analysis ( B), performed at the same time at the request of the player, “did not confirm the result of sample A”, which indicated the presence of exogenous testosterone, an androgenic anabolic steroid.
“The player was informed today that the provisional suspension of which he was targeted, due to alleged violation of the anti-doping rules, was removed from the result of the counter-analysis. The player is allowed to return to competition and training With immediate effects, ”says the statement from ITA.
According to the entity, this laboratory “will proceed to a internal investigation To identify the causes that led to the discrepancy in the results of samples A and B ”and that prevented Miguel Martins from participating in the last Andabol World.
