Post by Taxigirl on Oct 25, 2003 9:56:29 GMT
Massimo Moratti has launched his own investigation after new revelations on Mohamed Kallon’s nandrolone levels.
The Inter striker was suspended on Thursday after failing a routine drug test for the September 27 match with Udinese.
“What happened has no explanation,” insisted President Moratti. “We are met with an incident that saddens us and we are all awaiting further developments.”
Kallon is the second Serie A player to test positive for nandrolone this season after Parma midfielder Manuele Blasi.
However, there are reports suggesting that Kallon’s sample contained a very high level of the banned anabolic steroid.
The body can naturally produce nandrolone of up to 0.4 per cent of a regular sample, but newspapers now suggest the Sierra Leone striker had over 2 per cent.
Even during the nandrolone scandal of last year, when several cases sprung up around Europe, only Edgar Davids of Juventus had ever registered that high a percentage.
“For years now,” continued the Inter patron, “this club has been battling against doping in sport with every means possible.”
“We will examine, evaluate and perform the necessary investigation to discover how this happened.”
Inter regularly perform their own drug tests on the entire squad and insist all of Kallon’s samples had previously emerged clean.
“We await the results of the B sample and are convinced by Kallon’s insistence of his innocence. I hope it was all a terrible mistake,” concluded Moratti, “but this situation is absurd and I demand an explanation.”