OOC testing isn’t happening from T100 at the moment. A testing pool was mooted last year but doesn’t currently exist. If he’s not on his national federation testing pool, we can essentially assume he’s not on one at all. We didn’t even have blood spot testing at athlete sign on prior to this race like PTO events in the past. It would be interesting to know if he was tested after his post-race hospital visit, as the other men on the podium were.
It would be great if we we’re all subject to the same testing standards, but that doesn’t seem to be happening at the moment.
Drug testing after just receiving some i.v. infusions at hospital makes not that much sense because of the hemodileting effects of infusions and medications received in hospital. Going straight to ER after winning a race may be a creative way to avoid In-competition-testing which hopefully not become standard in triathlon.
Given the amount of money that is involved in the series the lack of OOC-Tests for participants at t100-series is a big issue, especially after the Collin-Chartier-scandal 2023.
The PTO have a cooperation with world triathlon regarding the process of wild cards selecting so it would be an easy thing to assure, that only athlete who are in a national pool for OOC-testing are eligible for getting an contract or getting a wild card.