An Austrian Billiards player is tested at a training control positive for a banned substance. The former European champion Mario He receives a four-month ban, which will apply retrospectively.
Mario He is currently 35. the pool Billiards-the world rank list
The Austrian National Anti-Doping Agency NADA takes their job seriously. It tests even the Billiards players out-of-competition and was able to find The Billiards champion of Europe of 2012 Mario He (also Yi Tong He) was tested in mid-October in the case of a so-called Out-of-Competition control positive to the prohibited substance “Hydrochlorothiazide (HCT)” (class S5 Diuretics and Masking Agents on the WADA prohibited list). Now the NADA Austria He has locked.
“Taking into account the observed degree of negligence on the part of Yi Tong (Mario) HE was blocked for a period of 4 months from participation in sporting events of any kind,” writes the NADA said in a statement. The duration of the lock has already started on the day of the implementation of the doping control and shall thus terminate on November 9. February. Mario He was also obliged to refund the costs of the proceedings and the decision was RES judicata because He had raised no objection, informed the NADA Austria. Mario He is currently 35. the pool Billiards-the world rank list
Not the first case of doping in Billiards-sports
Doping in Billiards-sports sounds at first paradoxical, since the sports hardly any physical burdens. However, it is not the first case of illegal performance enhancement in Billiards: the German cover-champion Axel buescher, 2008, it was blocked, said the positive Test, but later with a doctor’s prescription, which he had not displayed. And in 2015, the Dutch Billiards player Harrie van de Ven was covered with a barrier of 18 months. Here is an beta blocker that slows the heart rate and lowers blood pressure is said to have been the cause.
jw/ck (NADA Austria)