He was Kerry. Unless he flew over for the closing ceremony.

He went back over for the closing ceremony I believe, as did Annalise Murphy who had come home.

Thanks for that Gavan. Jeez what’s with all the red thumbs for asking a question?

Fool

agree completly

how he thinks people will just overlook what he did is beyond me. but typical of a mentality here that , in response to anything like this simply comments ‘we are where we are’; as if the past just vanishes should you wish it to. unfortunately, it doesn’t

@Alan: Worth pointing out that in Cian’s face, the world equestrian governing body fully accepted the given explanation that the medication was given to the horse to treat an injury several months before the Olympics, and hadn’t been intended to improve performance at all.

He knows people! He’s a disgrace to other athletes who have competed with a clean slate! Should be banned for life.

A lifetime ban for circumstantial evidence???? Does that not sound silly to you??

Perhaps, but the only thing unusual there is the theft of parts of the sample.

Otherwise it’s fairly straightforward: man wins contest, part A of the sample is tested, A tests positive, sample B is tested, man offers explanation in which a breach of the rules (albeit accidental) is admitted, B tests positive, man says he won’t appeal, man is stripped. All in all, as drug offences go, that’s fairly routine.

The only different thing, as I said, is the theft – and the piece doesn’t say what else was stolen, so it may simply have been one part of a larger random spree in which dozens, or hundreds, of things were stolen. Even if it were a deliberate theft, leaving enough of a B sample to be tested would seem like a pretty stupidly-conceived crime.