Danekova issues doping denial
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BULGARIAN runner Silvia Danekova has denied taking performance-enhancing drugs and said she was shocked at testing positive for the banned blood booster erythropoietin a few days after her arrival in Brazil for the Rio Olympics.
The 33-year-old, who was due to compete in the women’s 3,000-meter steeplechase on Monday, has been suspended after failing an out-of-competition test on August 1, the Bulgarian Olympic Committee said in a statement.
The B sample had also tested positive, the BOC said.
Danekova said the only logical explanation she could give for the positive test was that the substance came from a contaminated food supplement.
EPO, which increases the number of red blood cells, has been used mostly by endurance athletes such as middle and long-distance runners and cyclists.
“I’ve been tested four times after entering the Olympic Village,” Danekova, who faces a four-year ban if found guilty, told Bulgarian television yesterday. “(Results) of the three of the samples were negative. It’s an incredibly big shock.”
Danekova, who failed to get beyond the heats in the steeplechase at the 2012 London Olympics, said: “I don’t feel guilty. I cannot tell you how humiliated I feel.”
“I feel robbed emotionally,” she said. “But we’re coming from the east (eastern Europe), we’re too close to Russia ...”
Virtually all of Russia’s track and field team have been excluded from Rio following revelations of state-backed doping.
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