Peter Bol: Perth Olympian cleared of suspected EPO use by two independent laboratories

Two independent laboratories have cleared Perth’s Olympic athlete Peter Bol of the use of the banned drug Erythropoietin.

Bol received a suspension in January after his A-sample returned high levels of EPO — a glycoprotein cytokine secreted mainly by the kidneys in response to cellular hypoxia. It stimulates red blood cell production in the bone marrow.

Bol’s lawyer Paul Greene called on Sport Integrity Australia to drop the case against the Commonwealth Games silver medallist.

“My primary goal right now is to get them to publicly admit what is obvious,” he told the Today Show.

“If anyone looks at those reports, we have two of the most world-class analytical chemists in the world look at his results and say this wasn’t even a close call. These were just negative tests.

“These WADA labs . . . they don’t have the expertise to understand this particular test.

“It’s not a straightforward analysis, it isn’t like a normal exam or test or looking at a urine substance where it is clearly in there and it’s synthetic.

“This is a subjective analysis and they just couldn’t get it right. They had no idea what they were doing.

“And the worst part of it now is that it was announced first of all, which never should have been. I begged them not to announce it.

“Two, now they just . . . obviously are wrong. They are refusing to drop this sham investigation.

“They have absolutely no evidence at all at this point as to any wrongdoing.”