Inadvertent Doping: Shayna Jack is Back on the Black Line

In 2022, Australian swimmer Shayna Jack is back on the black line. Jack was ineligible to compete at the 2021 Tokyo Olympic Games, as her two-year suspension for an anti-doping rule violation (ligandrol) expired just before the start of the Games. Jack’s tale highlights the difficulties faced by elite athletes, in circumstances where they allege that their doping violation occurred inadvertently. This presentation will chart Jack’s legal battle through a Court of Arbitration for Sport hearing, followed by an appeal by the World Anti-Doping Agency against the leniency of her initial sanction. What has become clear is that Jack was simultaneously very unlucky, and then very lucky, during her anti-doping ordeal