substance ligandrol let's look at the allegations of a cover-up in relation to

this and let's also look at whether swimming Australia and Australian

swimmers are hypocrites in relation to their treatment of Sun Yang the Chinese

swimmer so the basic background towards Shayna jack is she tested positive to the

banned substance ligandrol. Ligandrol is a SARM, effectively you can think of

it as being kind of like a lighter version of a steroid it's illegal it has

some steroid like effects and has some fewer side effects than steroids that's

one way of thinking about it it's banned by all athletic associations including

the swimming organizations Shayna Jack's A sample tested positively to ligandrol

and then there was a B blood sample which also tested positive now

throughout this whole time period swimming Australia the governing body in

Australia had remained silent until after the World Championships this has

led to allegations that there was a cover-up and they should have revealed

the information they had as and a new earth now let's look at whether that's

really the case now the first thing to bear in mind is of course the Ligandrol

is banned now it appears that that came in to Shayna Jack's blood sample and into

her blood tests she's alleged that this wasn't her fault and she's insinuating

that perhaps it was due to contaminated supplements I use insinuating the SARM

somehow made it into other supplement she was taking and therefore it wasn't

her fault she's vowed that she will clear her name

now whether that obviously can occurs remains to be seen but that's what she

said will happen first let's have a look at the allegations of the cover-up the

basic allegation of the cover-up is a swimming Australia obviously knew that

she tested positive in her A sample and swimming Australian knew that she tested

positive in her B sample now assuming Australia remains silent until after the

World Championships is this a cover-up now it turns out that in reality it

probably isn't the reason it isn't is that basically they only have to reveal

the information of a positive sample after one of two things happens after

either a the athlete consents to the information being released to the public

or be some form of sanction is handed up now as at that time

Shayna Jack had not consented to the information being released publicly and

they had not been no sanction hand at the time instead there was a

preliminary suspension appears that would have prevented her from competing

that the final determination hadn't been meted out at that stage so therefore

under privacy obligations they weren't allowed to reveal the sanction so

effectively their hands were tied in relation to whether they could grilled

reveal information. Put differently there wasn't a cover-up because they simply

didn't have any ability to disclose the information under the regulations

because she hadn't consented at this time and no penalty had formally been

handed down at this time therefore they couldn't disclose her

therefore the cover-up idea can't really be maintained in this situation because

they didn't have the option to disclose the information now let's move on to the

next issue of does this make Australian swimmers and swimming Australia

hypocritical in relation to their treatment of sun yang now a brief recap

of the issue in relation to Sun Yang is he came into controversy around a

botched drug test basically what happened is testers showed up this

complex didn't have proper accreditation and they took a blood sample. Sun Yang

questioned the accreditation of the testers and he ultimately determined

that they weren't properly accredited and therefore he didn't want them to

remove his blood sample it appears they didn't collect a urine sample at this

time now what ultimately happened is Sun

Yang's entourage smashed the blood test vials this meant they couldn't live with

the blood samples now it's important to bear in mind here the Sun yang at this

stage is not tested positive to any banned substances so we can't state that

he's cheated because we don't have a positive test at this stage now the

anti-doping tribunal cleared him of any wrongdoing they cleared him of any

wrongdoing because they stated the testers should have proper accreditation

he's maintained their by refusing to submit to this blood test when the

testers didn't have proper accreditation he was in fact defending many other

swimmers from nefarious people who might simply show up and demand a blood test

without proper identification says the Sun yang situation now there

had been some controversy which ultimately culminated in a number of

Australian swimmers protesting against the Sun Yang and posting and protesting

against his involvements in developing ships for example Mack Horton refused to

take the podium with him when sun yang won the race that they were compete

and Mack Horton placed second this has led to claims that Australian swimmers

are being hypocritical particularly after the Shayna jack incident came out

now let's have a look at whether that's really the case and it turns out it

probably isn't the reason it isn't really hypocritical is Shayna Jack tested

positive firstly so the testing procedures were in place secondly she

didn't compete in the world championships and thirdly a penalty will

be handed out which will presumably prevent her from competing in future

Swimming Championships for a period of time put differently the testing

occurred and she was disqualified and removed from competing ie

the testing actually went as it should have what that effectively implies is

the testing occurred and was rigorous enough to catch her out from doing the

wrong thing it's not as if swimming Australia had enabled an athlete to

compete when they shouldn't have been I they didn't allow her to go ahead and

compete even though she tested positive if they had done that and that would

obviously be hypocritical but they haven't done that now obviously the two

situations between Shayna Jack and Sun yang are very different as well

Shayna jack has tested positive and then P she's not competing sun yang is not

tested positive and he did compete the two simply aren't very compatible

now this does beg the question of is the arc ray about Sun yang justified I've

made a separate video on this and in general terms it probably isn't because

in general terms he complied with the relevant regulations he was within his

justification to refuse to give up that blood test because they didn't have

proper accreditation doesn't matter for a different topic in a different time

but nevertheless it the situation for the shayna Jack and Sun yang doesn't

give rise to hypocrisy or Shayna Jack simply wasn't allowed to compete so

therefore the outcry is very different in the two situations so hope this has

given you some insight into the allegations of a cover-up in relation of

Shayna jack and whether it gives rise to hypocrisy in relation to Australian

swimmers and sun yang and the situation arising back so I hope the video has

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