Germans declare Hella Boeker suspension ‘official’
Under the heading “Suspension of Hella Boeker (GER) now official,” the Eurovets news page says: “The German Athletics Federation (DLV) informed that on November 1, 2006 the DLV Disciplinary Commission declared the thrower Hella Boeker (W 65) ineligible for one year from the date of the decision with a deduction for the suspension served from September 15, 2006 until September 14, 2007. All results of Hella Boeker are to delete and the medals have to been returned.” The item is signed: “Dieter Massin, EVAA-President, November 06, 2006” We noted this case almost two months ago, but many questions remain (besides: What’s a deduction mean here?) — notably, did Hella have a TUE? Stay TUNed.
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Interesting indeed – we had a discussion about this a couple of months ago – so there is not need to rehash that stuff. Even more interesting is that she gets a year “deduction” – and apparently she knew what she was doing as she did not ask for a test of the B sample – but Neil Griffin gets two years without any “deduction” when he filed a TUE and the paperwork apparently was lost. So – is the moral of the story – don’t get a TUE, take your medication – prescribed or otherwise- and get banned for a year. File the paperwork, WMA loses it – you get two years ban. And what the heck is a “deduction”?
Does she get this because she did not contest the finding? Apparently the German federation is more generous in how it treats its drug cheats or apparent cheats than WMA.
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