Zane Robertson

By George Ramsay, CNN. Olympic distance runner Zane Robertson has received an eight-year ban after failing a drug test and tampering with the doping control ...

Without explicitly mentioning the tribunal, he added: “A lot of people/companies involved in almost making me lose interest in the sport completely. When administered to athletes, it can increase the amount of oxygen delivered to muscles, improving recovery and endurance. According to the judgment, DFSNZ presented evidence at the tribunal from the vice president of the medical center Robertson said he attended, who claimed that Robertson was not administered EPO at the facility, that he had not attended the facility on the alleged date, and that the medical notes submitted were not generated at the facility. The medical center vice president also said that, of the two doctors Robertson had said treated him, one was a lab technician and the other was not employed at the facility. According to the tribunal judgment, Robertson claimed as part of his defense that he had attended a medical facility in Kenya to get a Covid-19 vaccine; instead, though, he said he was treated for Covid-19, which he claimed involved the administration of EPO. The 33-year-old Robertson was given a four-year ban for the positive test and a further four-year ban after the sports tribunal ruled that he had “sought to subvert the doping control process.”

A distance runner who invented a story that he was mistakenly injected with EPO when he went for a Covid vaccination has claimed that drug-taking is common ...

Kiwi distance runner says he is being abused and lost a potential sponsor because of his twin's positive test for EPO and eight-year ban.

He’s also had people tell him to “distance myself or dissolve my relationship with my brother”. Not Zane Robertson.” * I am p....d off. [extraordinary lengths to cover up his drug use](https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/other-sports/131572791/the-extraordinary-lengths-kiwi-olympian-zane-robertson-took-to-deceive-antidoping-authorities), blaming the presence of EPO on the Kenyan medical system and provided falsified documents to officials. Am I p....d that I've been dragged into this, in a sense? I am Jake Robertson. “Am I angry and upset with my brother?

33-year-old Olympic runner from New Zealand, Zane Robertson, receives a double ban for doping and tampering with the test results.

Once during the 2016 Rio Olympics and for a second time at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics. DFSNZ provided a statement from the Vice President of the Kenyan medical facility where Robertson was allegedly getting treated. To support his claim, the runner produced hospital notes, reports, and an affidavit from a Kenyan doctor and a detective. He subsequently accepted the presence of the prohibited substance but asked to be heard in relation to sanction.” ADVERTISEMENT However, reports proved that the evidence provided by the runner to support his claims were falsified.

Zane Robertson, a long-distance runner from New Zealand, has been banned from all competitions for eight years due to doping with EPO. The substance is popular ...

Zane Robertson, a long-distance runner from New Zealand, has been banned from all competitions for eight years due to doping with EPO. Instead of the vaccine, EPO was injected into his body, causing him to want to take legal action against the treating doctors. After collapsing under the burden of proof, Robertson revised his statements and accepted his ban.