Ottawa – January 13, 2025 – The Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport (CCES) announced today that William Stein, a U SPORTS swimming athlete affiliated with the University of New Brunswick, received a five-year sanction for an anti-doping rule violation. The athlete’s urine sample, collected out of competition on November 1, 2024, revealed the presence of four prohibited anabolic agents: testosterone, metandienone, mesterolone, DHCMT, as well as GW501516, which is a prohibited metabolic modulator.
The standard sanction for a violation involving a prohibited substance is a four-year period of ineligibility; however, given the presence of multiple prohibited substances, the CCES asserted an additional two-year period for aggravating circumstances. On December 19, 2024, the athlete signed an Early Admission and Acceptance of Sanction Agreement, thereby admitting to the violation and accepting the asserted period of ineligibility and all other consequences. As a result, the otherwise applicable six-year period of ineligibility was reduced by one year in accordance with Canadian Anti-Doping Program (CADP) rule 10.8.1. Because a provisional suspension was imposed on the athlete, the sanction ends on December 3, 2029.
During the sanction period, the athlete is ineligible to participate in any capacity with any sport signatory to the CADP or the World Anti-Doping Code, including training with teammates.
In compliance with rule 8.4 of the CADP, the CCES’s file outcome summary can be found in the Canadian Sport Sanction Registry.
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