Scott MacLeod positive steroid result dropped by Scottish Rugby

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MacLeod doping charge is dropped
BBC News, UK - 27 minutes ago
A doping charge against Scott MacLeod has been dropped after investigators accepted that his high levels of testosterone were triggered by alcohol.

Gregor Nicholson, Scottish Rugby's international administration manager, said: "It has been a long and frustrating case for Scott MacLeod, some aspects of which demonstrate an urgent need for a review of T/E (the ratio of testosterone to epitestosterone) protocols and whether A samples should be routinely analysed for the existence of alcohol, ultimately by WADA but also by UK Sport.

"Scottish Rugby is also making representations to the International Rugby Board in relation to how the IRB's anti-doping regulations (and therefore our own anti-doping regulations) deal with the complicated and uncertain nature of such cases.

"Until then, all players who are subject to doping control, including out-of-competition unannounced testing, should take heed of the very real danger of acute alcohol ingestion causing a temporary elevation of their T/E level, to the extent that they could face having to formally explain, to a legal standard, the reason for the finding in order to avoid a doping charge."

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