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Tony Yoka suspended for one year suspended for anti-doping
According to our information, the French Tony Yoka, Olympic heavyweight champion, was suspended for one year suspended by the French Boxing Federation for "failures" (a priori location defects) in anti-doping regulations.
According to our information, the heavyweight Tony Yoka has been suspended for one year suspended by the anti-doping commission of the French Boxing Federation for a "breach" of the regulations. The Olympic champion has committed three "failures" (a priori location defects) that constitute an "offense", as provided in the texts. André Martin, the president of the French Boxing Federation, acknowledges the existence of this case: "The AFLD asked the Federation because Yoka (who must fight on April 7 against his compatriot Cyril Leonet) forgot to surrender to an anti - doping meeting, he confirms. He had to take sanctions against him. It is the anti-doping commission, meeting December 12, 2017 (four days before his last fight won against the Belgian Ali Baghouz ) , which has stuck for a year suspended. He is not doped, nothing at all. It's just that he forgot to go to the appointments checks he had. We depend on the AFLD, who studies the files. They insisted on us, because Tony Yoka, whenever he was summoned, he never came. Then, after three shortcomings, the AFLD asks us to pass it in anti-doping discipline commission. It was his lawyers who came and he had a year suspended. They explained that he was not there. It's not dramatic in itself. "
He risks a more severe penalty
But the case is probably not over, because the AFLD can take a more severe sanction for such a case. "At a minimum, the AFLD claims two years," says André Martin. It has only been a year because we believe that it is not a control, but a breach of its obligations. There is nothing extraordinary about it. The AFLD has seized the file and reserves the right to decide, in a few months, that the sanction of one year with suspended sentence does not satisfy it and that it must be put two years.
On the website of the AFLD , one can read that "if the sportsman commits three defaults of any kind during a period of twelve consecutive months, the AFLD sends to the competent federation a statement of offense incurring the person concerned a suspension included between 1 year and 2 years, in accordance with the standard disciplinary regulation of the approved sports federations, relating to the fight against human doping, annexed to Article R. 232-86 of the Sport Code. " It is not stated that stay can be given. Contacted on this point, the AFLD confirms that "the regulation in force does not provide for a stay, except in a particular case, that of substantial assistance, when an athlete gives information on other cases of doping. In this case alone, it allows for a portion of the sentence to be suspended. "
Tony Yoka's lawyer, Arnaud Péricard, also confirms the penalty imposed on his client : "Tony fished for lack of rigor, he assumes and since then he has organized much better. It is a problem of form and procedure more than of substance. At no time did Tony Yoka attempt to conceal any doping situation, which is what the Federation's Anti-Doping Commission recognized and notified.
According to our information, the French Tony Yoka, Olympic heavyweight champion, was suspended for one year suspended by the French Boxing Federation for "failures" (a priori location defects) in anti-doping regulations.
According to our information, the heavyweight Tony Yoka has been suspended for one year suspended by the anti-doping commission of the French Boxing Federation for a "breach" of the regulations. The Olympic champion has committed three "failures" (a priori location defects) that constitute an "offense", as provided in the texts. André Martin, the president of the French Boxing Federation, acknowledges the existence of this case: "The AFLD asked the Federation because Yoka (who must fight on April 7 against his compatriot Cyril Leonet) forgot to surrender to an anti - doping meeting, he confirms. He had to take sanctions against him. It is the anti-doping commission, meeting December 12, 2017 (four days before his last fight won against the Belgian Ali Baghouz ) , which has stuck for a year suspended. He is not doped, nothing at all. It's just that he forgot to go to the appointments checks he had. We depend on the AFLD, who studies the files. They insisted on us, because Tony Yoka, whenever he was summoned, he never came. Then, after three shortcomings, the AFLD asks us to pass it in anti-doping discipline commission. It was his lawyers who came and he had a year suspended. They explained that he was not there. It's not dramatic in itself. "
He risks a more severe penalty
But the case is probably not over, because the AFLD can take a more severe sanction for such a case. "At a minimum, the AFLD claims two years," says André Martin. It has only been a year because we believe that it is not a control, but a breach of its obligations. There is nothing extraordinary about it. The AFLD has seized the file and reserves the right to decide, in a few months, that the sanction of one year with suspended sentence does not satisfy it and that it must be put two years.
On the website of the AFLD , one can read that "if the sportsman commits three defaults of any kind during a period of twelve consecutive months, the AFLD sends to the competent federation a statement of offense incurring the person concerned a suspension included between 1 year and 2 years, in accordance with the standard disciplinary regulation of the approved sports federations, relating to the fight against human doping, annexed to Article R. 232-86 of the Sport Code. " It is not stated that stay can be given. Contacted on this point, the AFLD confirms that "the regulation in force does not provide for a stay, except in a particular case, that of substantial assistance, when an athlete gives information on other cases of doping. In this case alone, it allows for a portion of the sentence to be suspended. "
Tony Yoka's lawyer, Arnaud Péricard, also confirms the penalty imposed on his client : "Tony fished for lack of rigor, he assumes and since then he has organized much better. It is a problem of form and procedure more than of substance. At no time did Tony Yoka attempt to conceal any doping situation, which is what the Federation's Anti-Doping Commission recognized and notified.
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