Paris 2024 Olympics: Test positive: French fencer Isaora Thibous caught the infection from a friend?

Isaora Tibus lives up to his positive doping test. The foil fencer, who became world champion in 2022, tested positive for ostarine on January 14 and may have been infected through her companion Race Imboden, also a fencer.

In any case, this is what his lawyer, Maitre Joël Monlouis, told L’Equipe: “We know the source of the infection: his companion Race Imboden. He took a product that contained ostarine and contaminated Isaora. The transmission that allowed infection occurred through bodily fluids. »

“Prove that Isaora never took this product.”

On Tuesday, the French fencer explained in a press release that she had to refuse the analysis of the B sample to save time in the disciplinary procedure. “From the studies carried out by my team, it follows that I was indeed exposed to infection, despite myself, during the control period,” clarified the one who “always denies with the greatest firmness” the administration of “the slightest doping substance.” “.

“Our goal, which has always been the same from the beginning, is to prove that Isaora never took this product,” her lawyer confirmed this Saturday, still to L’Equipe. Our difficulty is the time limit, we must set it as early as possible to allow Isaora to participate in the Olympic Games. “It remains to convince the International Fencing Federation of his innocence.