Clearly, the Papu Gomez soap opera continues with a new episode. Indeed, the 35-year-old midfielder, 2022 world champion with Argentina, was suspended from all sporting activity for two years after testing positive during an anti-doping test carried out last November. When justifying himself on social networks, the native of Buenos Aires defended himself by mentioning the accidental taking of a syrup containing a banned substance, terbutaline, to treat a dry cough. But to believe Relevowho had already revealed the information on October 20, a new manager is infiltrating this affair.
Indeed, according to the latest information from the Iberian media, which had access to the resolution of the sanctioning committee of CELAD (Spanish Anti-Doping Commission), the 2022 world champion would have decided to point the finger at his wife, Linda Raff, in order to to avoid sanction for the use of this substance, an “exceptional justification” was required, according to the regulations of the WADA (World Anti-Doping Agency). The document clearly aims to emphasize that“it was an unconscious ingestion induced by an error on the part of the athlete’s wife” at night, as stated in the resolution of the case. This defense thus makes it possible to rely on article 10.5 of the World Anti-Doping Code, which makes it possible to eliminate the period of suspension when the athlete proves the absence of fault or negligence.
