Elite athletes have said to avoid one night stands due to the risk of drug contamination

Anti -doping experts have told elite athletes to avoid one night stands to limit their chances of being contaminated by prohibited drugs.

Medicines improving performance was on the agenda at a conference in London Thursday, experts calling for the modification of rules so that there is a clearer distinction between intentional cheating and contamination.

Two very publicized cases in recent years have seen athletes eliminated from intentional doping after the drugs said that drugs have entered their system via their sexual partners.

In 2009, the tennis star, Richard Gasquet, was authorized after the Sport Arbitration Court judged that his positive test for cocaine was “ probably ” by kissing a woman in a nightclub.

Five years ago, the American boxer Virginia Fuchs was then rid of any reprehensible act after having been revealed that her partner used therapeutic doses of GW1516, a prohibited substance that stimulates endurance. An investigation revealed that the metabolites of his sample “were compatible with recent exposure to substances via sexual transmission”.

Travis Tygart, the director general of the Anti-Doping Agency of the United States (USADA), has now warned the athletes that they should pay attention to who they enter into sex.

Richard Gasquet (photo) was eliminated from any reprehensible act in 2009 after blamed his positive test for cocaine by kissing a woman in a nightclub

Us Boxer Virginia Fuchs (Photo) was also eliminated in 2020 after the metabolites found in its sample “were compatible with recent exposure to substances via sexual transmission”

“It’s so pathetic that we have this conversation,” admitted Tygart. “But I think that on the basis of the cases we have seen, look who you kiss. Be careful with whom you have an intimate relationship.

“To say that to elite athletes, I think it is a fairly ridiculous world, we expect our athletes to live, that’s why we push to try to change these rules to make it more reasonable and just. He is still on athletes. As an anti -doping organization, we must resume part of this responsibility.

“And I worry about the number of intentional cheaters who really run away because we spend so much time and resources on cases that end up being someone who kisses someone in a bar.

“Really, it’s incredible to think that you have to tell athletes to pay attention to whom they can have intimate relationships. And that is why we have to change the system, so this is not the world in which elite level athletes should live.

Tygart has revealed that changes in anti -doping rules should be made with regard to certain substances.

He named Clostebol, the anabolic steroid that Jannik Sinner tested positive for last year.

The male tennis player No. 1 denied any reprehensible act, but then accepted a three -month ban which he almost finished.

Tygart also mentioned Ostarine, a substance found in the system of boxing star Ryan Garcia after her fight with Devin Haney last year.

Tygart suggested that the rules could change with regard to certain substances, including Clostebol, the substance that Jannik Sinner tested positive for last year

Tygart also named the ostarine, the Ryan Garcia substances boxer was tested positive in 2024

Garcia also denied the intentional use of the substance, but accepted a one -year ban.

Tygart said: “There is a handful of substances that you could say at certain levels, and we are talking very, very low, you put an MRL (minimum level of report).

“Wada already does it for Clenbuterol, meat exhaustiers and diuretics. Add some additional substances to this, Clostebol would be part of it, because we know that it can transfer between people by intimacy. Ostarine is another.