Shayna Jack has revealed the banned substance found in her system, and has vowed to clear her name and find out how she came into contact with the drug.
Jack, 20, shocked the Australian swimming fraternity with the news she had tested positive for a banned substance — now revealed to be Ligandrol — which forced her withdrawal from the national squad prior to the world championships in Gwangju, South Korea.
Ligandrol is a selective androgen receptor modulator (SARM), which was developed to help with the treatment of medical conditions like osteoporosis. It aids the growth of muscle mass and has been detected in drug tests used in sport. In a statement linked from her Instagram account, Jack relayed the shock and confusion she experienced when called in by ASADA and was told she had tested positive.
Jack intimated that Ligandrol can be found in contaminated supplements.
“I was in complete shock, asking myself how and why is this happening to me. My brain repeated over and over: ‘I have always checked my substances’, ‘I didn’t do this’, ‘why is this happening to me?’, ‘I’ve done nothing wrong’,” she said.
