Dubai: The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) will face a very embarrassing and costly setback after agreeing to pay former Liverpool football player Mamadou Sakho a really large sum in damages while a long-standing dispute is resolved.
At a public hearing in London’s High Court of Justice on Thursday, WADA’s board retracted and apologized for defamatory accusations and said WADA had accepted that the French foreign defender “did not violate UEFA’s anti-doping regulations, did not cheat, not aim to obtain merit and act in intelligent faith. “
The WADA Board further regretted “the damage that the defamatory accusations caused Mr. Sajo and array’s anguish, injury and shame. “
While accepting the footballer’s moderate prices in court, the firm “agreed with its insurers to pay Mr. Sakho a very large sum of damages. “
The dispute dates back to 2016, when Sakho, now 30, a regular in the United Arab Emirates, served a voluntary provisional suspension after positive for the substance burning hegenamine fats following a clash between the UEFA Europa League and Manchester United.
The substance in a nutritional supplement he was taking and the suspension caused the central defender to miss the rest of the 2015–16 season, adding Liverpool’s 3–1 loss to Sevilla in the Europa League final.
In July 2016, however, UEFA’s control, ethics and field framework ignored the opposite case to Sakho, concluding “among other things” that higenamine had been shown to be on WADA’s List of Prohibitions.
According to the decision, “it is unreasonable to expect an athlete to perceive a substance better than an accredited laboratory through WADA and its scientists. “Hegenamine in particular was included on WADA’s banned list in January 2017.
Since that incident, Sakho left Liverpool and joined Crystal Palace in the Premier League. He is well known for his passing skill and precision. Sakho made his career at Paris FC before joining the youth formula of Paris Saint-Germain in 2002.
In 2013, Sakho moved to Liverpool for 18 million pounds (86. 87 million dirhams). He has a loan with the Palace in 2017 and then bought it through the team for 26 million pounds on September 1, 2017.
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