Brenden Nel

But because he was overweight, his estrogen levels were too high.

So to bring that down, they gave him a thing called anastrozole.

And a medical guy will probably tell you this better.

But it apparently boosts your testosterone and brings down your estrozone.

And he used another thing called DHEA, which also does more or less the same thing.

And that was prescribed to him by a medical professional.

The funniest thing about that, he was tested positive for the one of the two.

I'm not sure which one it was.

But the other one, he wrote down in his form and he declared it himself, even though he wasn't tested positive for it.

He played open cards.

He didn't think he was doing anything wrong.

He was consulting the physician.

Of course, nowadays in doping, you've got to...

Yeah, there's no excuse for athletes.

They've got to know what's going on in their body.

They can't just feign ignorance at the end of the day and blame somebody else.

And for that, he's now got 18 months.

I feel for the guy because I think in the classic doping case, you know, the Ben Johnson sprint, you can see why they do it.

this is a guy just trying to lose some weight and and unfortunately the way it's gone uh i was speaking to his agent the other day i think he could have a civil claim against the doctor that prescribed him the stuff for loss of earnings um but yeah this is certainly not the last we've heard about and i just feel i mean he's a young guy he's played three tests for the spring box he's now out for 18 months he loses a lot of money out of that time and a world cup and um

yeah and a world cup and this is just not your classic doping case as i said there is there's an asterisk here but i mean too if somebody wants to see something wrong in it yeah