Ophélie Claude-Boxberger continues her fight. The former French 3000m steeplechase champion, now 33, challenges the decision of the Council of State, which imposed an additional two-year sentence on her on Tuesday, and plans to file a complaint against the French agency for the fight against le doping (AFLD) which had appealed the initial sanction imposed by its own commission.
“I will see if I can file a complaint”
“I expected it, explains Ophélie Claude-Boxberger to L’Équipe. This was the wish of the rapporteur and it is almost always followed. But he based himself on completely unfounded information, from the AFLD, which states that I had a second positive control and that I was therefore following a doping protocol by microdoses. This positive control would have taken place at the World Championships in Doha. But in Doha, if we consult the official documents, there was no positive control. I was checked three times in Font-Romeu, three negatives, once in Montbéliard, positive, and behind, including in Doha, everything was negative. »
The decision of the Council of State being without appeal, its room for maneuver now seems reduced. “I’m looking at all the possibilities,” she adds. The European Court of Human Rights would take me too long, three or four years. I’m going to see if I can file a complaint against the AFLD which presented false “information” since there are not two positive controls. It is unfair. I am suspended, in addition my image is still dirty. I’m the dirty dope, that she releases, that her legs are cut off. »
” I am pregnant “
Her sporting future is now dotted even if Ophélie Claude-Boxberger does not give up training or returning to competition to compete in the Olympic marathon in Paris in 2024. “I am pregnant with a little boy, says- she. He will be born in three months, but behind, I continue my career with the objective of being at the start of the Paris Games marathon on August 15, 2024, and competing in an Olympic marathon like my father. »
