In 2016, Therese Johaug, a Norwegian three-time Olympic cross-country skiing champion, received an 18-month suspension from the sport she loved after it was discovered that the team-approved lip balm she was using to treat her badly sunburned lips contained a performance-enhancing steroid.
A devastated
Johaug lamented, “I feel I did everything right. I went to an expert who gave
me the ointment, and I asked him if the cream was on a doping list. The answer
I got was ‘no.’”
But the
powers that be were undeterred from their well-established hard line of
fairness, and Johaug was forced to
watch the 2018 winter Olympics from the sidelines.
Read the entire article here by Kaeley Triller at The Federalist.
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