Paris 2024 Olympics: suspended for doping, fencer Thibus says she was “exposed by contamination”. French foilist Ysaora Thibus gave up “the analysis of sample B” following a positive test for ostarine.

Thibus, who could thus miss the Olympic Games this summer in Paris, denied “with the greatest firmness” having administered ‘the slightest doping substance’ She chose to “renounce the analysis of the B sample” as part of an accelerated procedure, to have a chance of being present at the Olympics.