Paul Pogba will fight to clear his name, Sky Sports News understands, after the counter-analysis ‘B sample’ also returned a positive result.
Paul Pogba will fight to clear his name, Sky Sports News understands, after the counter-analysis ‘B sample’ also returned a positive result for a prohibited substance. The 30-year-old now has to prove his innocence to avoid a lengthy ban from football - and he intends to have everything he has taken rigorously tested to find how it got into his body. It has now emerged that DHEA was the substance discovered in both samples, which helps the body produce other hormones, such as testosterone.
It will be up to him - not the anti-doping authorities - to prove he did not intentionally break the rules and, contrary to several reports, Pogba did not tell anyone at Juventus that he had taken a banned substance, Sky Sports News understands. As far as the anti-doping bodies NADO Italia and WADA are concerned, the onus is on the athlete to be clean, and they are 100 per cent responsible for what goes into their body.
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