Today, an independent arbitration panel’s decision found that the WADA isoform hGH test is unreliable. The suspension of an Olympic champion was overturned after findings that the hGH test administered by WADA is not scientifically verifiable. For almost two years, the NFL players have fought the NFL and certain members of Congress who have publicly referred to the players’ insistence on scientific validity and fairness as “stalling” and “posturing.”
Today’s decision validates the players’ demand for scientific validity, full due process rights, and a transparent system.
DIRECT EXCERPT FROM THE DECISION: “In the Panel’s view Respondent has, on balance, failed to establish to the comfortable satisfaction of the Panel that the decision limits were correctly determined and that they would lead to the claimed specificity of 99.99%. Despite the Respondent’s ample opportunities to convince the Panel on the correctness of the decision limits including in post-Hearing brief as well as in response to the two subsequent rounds of Panel Questions, the Panel cannot exclude to its comfortable satisfaction that the decision limits are over inclusive and could lead to an excessive amount of false positive results.”
