FEI standing firm as Kürten goes on the attack
On Monday, she posted a statement on her website headlined “Turning point in ‘doping case’.” Big on outrage, but scant on detail, it took her lawyer Ulf Walz to explain the following day that he had evidence suggesting blood samples taken from the mare had tested negative for the banned substance etoricoxib.
He also said they were unaware the blood samples had been tested and, coming on the FEI’s decision to bar Kürten’s representative from witnessing the analysis last year, it demonstrated that the FEI had afforded the rider “as much rights as the prisoners in Guantanamo”.
