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Simon Vroemen cleared from doping allegations

30.01.2010 World

Former steeple European record holder and European medalist Dutch Simon Vroemen is cleared from doping allegations.

The decision of KNAU (Dutch Athletics Union) was announced by Friday. Because of the whole case Vroemen (40) missed the Olympic Games in Beijing. He asked for doping control in June 2008 in Cottbus after running olympic qualifying standard 8:12.50. Surprisingly the test was positive for metandienon. Fortunately for him scientific research has found that asthma medicine caused the positive result. Also the analysis was accompanied with irregularities. His provisional suspension since 2008 could now end, but as always the possibilty of an appeal exists. It is already second case where Vroemen was cleared. In his issue at European Championships 2006 in Sweden he used infusion what was the cause of the problem. “I m happy that my name is cleared. I always was training and competing without doping, that is now confirmed,” he was quoted.


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