British double Olympic taekwondo champion Jade Jones has been cleared to compete on the 2024 Video games after it was determined she won’t face any sanctions over a doping violation.
Jones, a gold medallist at London 2012 and Rio 2016, was provisionally suspended by the UK Anti-Doping Company (Ukad) after she failed to offer a urine pattern to officers who arrived at her resort in Manchester on 1 December 2023.
However Ukad mentioned it had been offered with confidential medical information that confirmed Jones bore “no fault or negligence for her refusal or failure to undergo her pattern assortment”.
Ukad, which didn’t specify the medical situations, say it was happy to not punish Jones on the “very distinctive circumstances”.
The 31-year-old signed a doc to say she was unable to offer a pattern as she was having dehydration coaching earlier than a weigh-in when the officers visited her in a resort in December.
Ukad’s ‘no-fault’ ruling was on the premise of a report by a psychiatrist, who confirmed that Jones’ “resolution to refuse or failure to offer a pattern occurred as a direct results of her cognitive impairment”.
Jones, who examined unfavourable later that day after offering a pattern to a separate tester, says she made a “mistake” by not offering the pattern on the first time of asking.
“In the intervening time this began, I did not grasp the scenario I used to be in and what may occur,” mentioned Jones in an announcement.
“What I perceive now isn’t just the error I made however the causes it occurred and that there may have been completely different penalties.”
She added she was “careworn and panicked” on the morning of the missed check.
Wales’ Jones gained Olympic gold at London 2012, aged 19.
She efficiently defended her title in Rio 4 years later however did not make it three-in-a-row in Tokyo in 2021 when she misplaced within the last-16 to Kimia Alizadeh.
Jones has been chosen in a four-person Nice Britain taekwondo workforce for the Paris Video games in July.