{"id":205,"date":"2008-10-18T18:49:05","date_gmt":"2008-10-19T02:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theathleteslawyer.com\/cases\/swimmer-kicker-vencills-tainted-vitamin-lawsuit\/"},"modified":"2008-10-18T18:49:05","modified_gmt":"2008-10-19T02:49:05","slug":"swimmer-kicker-vencills-tainted-vitamin-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/landauinjurylaw.com\/theathleteslawyer\/2008\/10\/18\/swimmer-kicker-vencills-tainted-vitamin-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Swimmer Kicker Vencill's tainted vitamin lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tainted supplements have been proven in court to have tripped up elite athletes in doping tests. Swimmer Kicker Vencill in 2005 won a legal judgment against a company that provided him with multivitamins contaminated with steroid precursors that resulted in a positive dope test and two-year ban from the sport. The process of clearing his name took two and a half years according to the Seattle Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Vencill sued the manufacturer, Ultimate Nutrition of Farmington, Conn., after having his own, independent tests done on the supplements. Vencill received a judgment of $578,000 in May, 2005, but his suspension from swimming was never reduced nor set aside, and he missed a shot at the 2004 Athens Olympics while adjudicating the matter.<\/p>\n

Under U.S. and international doping rules, ignorance of the ingestion source is no defense. USADA operates under a policy of “strict liability,” meaning that athletes are responsible for any banned substance they put into their own body, through any means. U.S. doping officials long have warned against using nutritional supplements, which, becuase they are not regulated by the federal Food and Drug Administration, essentially set their own standards for safety and purity.<\/p>\n

Olympic hopeful Kicker Vencill was banned in 2004 from swimming competition for 4 years as the result of testing positive for steroids. The athlete retained California attorney Howard Jacobs<\/a> and sued Ultimate Nutrition of Farmington, CT, claiming that the multivitamins he took were contaminated with steroid precursors that yielded his positive test results. Vencill was successful in his litigation, in the amount of $578,635, but lost the ability to compete for several years. (See USA Today, 5\/25\/05, “Banned Swimmer wins case over supplements,” by Ben Fox).<\/p>\n

Court documents revealed that laboratory testing of the multivitamin demonstrated that it was “contaminated by three anabolic agents…in sufficient concentrations to have caused the positive doping results.” (Court of Arbitration for Sport<\/a>, pp.7-9). The Court of Arbitration for Sports noted (at p. 19) that, “Kicker Vencill has definitely established that the Ultimate Nutrition Super Complete Capsules that he was taking…were contaminated with steroids.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tainted supplements have been proven in court to have tripped up elite athletes in doping tests. Swimmer Kicker Vencill in 2005 won a legal judgment against a company that provided him with multivitamins contaminated with steroid precursors that resulted in a positive dope test and two-year ban from the sport. The process of clearing his…<\/p>\n

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