{"id":586473,"date":"2024-06-04T11:20:16","date_gmt":"2024-06-04T18:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=586473"},"modified":"2024-06-04T12:08:59","modified_gmt":"2024-06-04T19:08:59","slug":"ncaa-champion-kensey-mcmahon-opens-up-about-positive-test-failed-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/ncaa-champion-kensey-mcmahon-opens-up-about-positive-test-failed-appeal\/","title":{"rendered":"NCAA Champion Kensey McMahon Opens Up About Positive Test, Failed Appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"

NCAA champion<\/a> Kensey McMahon<\/strong> has been out of the water competitively since last summer and on Tuesday revealed that she tested positive for a banned substance and has lost her appeal.<\/p>\n

McMahon wrote in an Instagram post that on July 7, 2023, she received a call from a USADA representative that said her July 1 in-competition sample tested positive for an “estimate of .05 ng\/mL of Vadadustat.” She was immediately suspended for four years.<\/p>\n

“In a phone call that lasted less than two minutes, my entire world was flipped upside down,” she said. “I have been tested by USADA in competitions… since 2016 and never had a positive test. I do believe in and support clean sport. … I still don’t have answers for how this happened to me, though I will continue to search.”<\/p>\n

Vadadustat is a medication used for treating anemia in related to kidney disease in adults on dialysis.<\/p>\n

McMahon said she hired a law firm to defend her case, testing everything she consumed during the months leading up to and during the competition and none contained Vadadustat.<\/p>\n

“I submitted a polygraph test (which I passed) and hair sample analysis, which was negative (as were all my random USADA doping control tests both before and after July 1, including one just four days after the positive,” Kensey McMahon wrote.<\/p>\n

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A post shared by Kensey McMahon \u25e1\u0308 (@kenseymac)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n